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What are the Christo-Fascist GOP Republican Party MAGA Trump Supporters and Evangelicals of the same variety trying to get from changing our democracy into an authoritarian dictatorship of fascism rather than freedom, liberty, justice, rule of law and individual human and civil rights guaranteed by our Constitution?
What purpose do their wealthy donors of mercantilism, tech bros, Wall Street brokers and hedge fund managers, political consultants and right wing fascist entrenched Republican organizations expect to get from achieving this change of our Constitutional makeup and our nation’s foundational principles?
Why would these political activists of the far right of politics in the United States as they’ve operated over the last fifty years believe these actions they’ve been doing and pursuing are profitable for them:
of removing our Constitution; destroying and utterly decimating our federal government structures and institutions; creating fifty nation-states rather than the United States as a single nation; removing birthright citizenship unless a citizen can afford to purchase that citizenship even if it is already protected by our Constitution applied to even those whose families have been in the US since the Revolution as well as legal immigrants; altering and even removing the freedoms, rights, liberty and equal justice under the law that have been foundational tenets of our nation; and establishing an authoritarian theocratic and fascist dictatorship where our democracy and rule of law has existed for 249 years?
“But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the distinction of men into KINGS and SUBJECTS. Male and female are the distinctions of nature, good and bad the distinctions of Heaven; but how a race of men came into the world so exalted above the rest, and distinguished like some new species, is worth inquiring into, and whether they are the means of happiness or of misery to mankind.
Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776 – https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/historic-document-library/detail/thomas-paine-common-sense-1776
Sad to watch these highly paid groveling Republican cowards bow to Trump and his anti-democracy fascist authoritarian dictatorship after God saved us from kings, rulers and tyrants.
The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Many circumstances hath, and will arise, which are not local, but universal, and through which the principles of all Lovers of Mankind are affected, and in the Event of which, their Affections are interested. The laying a Country desolate with Fire and Sword, declaring War against the natural rights of all Mankind, and extirpating the Defenders thereof from the Face of the Earth, is the Concern of every Man to whom Nature hath given the Power of feeling; of which Class, regardless of Party Censure, is the AUTHOR.
(Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776 – introduction)
https://www.ushistory.org/Paine/commonsense/sense1.htm
Somewhere lost in this current political situation of the far-right is the idea that a citizen of the United States serves us as our president and protects our Constitution. He or she serves as a citizen, not as a king and is willing to do the work of that office to provide for our national security, attend to our foreign affairs, review and pass or veto laws made in our Congress, bring the best and brightest educated minds to work for our nation’s goals and for the prosperity of our people with our Constitution and our nation’s well-being guiding their work for all of us.
It is lost in the sea of politics as a winner-take-all bloodsport of Lee Atwater, Roger Stone, Joseph McCarthy and his sidekick Roy Cohn, Donald Trump who Cohn mentored, Newt Gingrich, the Tea Party, the Freedom Caucus, Jim DeMint, Pat Buchanan, Pat Robertson, Steve Bannon, Paul Weyrich, Harlan Crow, the Koch Industries Koch Brothers, The John Birch Society, Claremont Institute, Heritage Foundation, Leonard Leo, and the rest of, what had been the “conservative” movement that is now in the hands of nothing short of fascism and Nazism, white supremacy, Christian nationalism, dominionists, racists, misogynists and zenophobic nihilists claiming to be “Christians” but with none of the teachings of Christ guiding them.
These are the people and groups that have spent a little over fifty years grouping, organizing, funding, activating resources to their end agenda demonstrating unequivocally that in their estimation, “the ends justify the means” in their actions to force their direction, their vision and their ideology along with their will on the people of the United States. In a nation where we elect those who will represent us, few of those listed were elected and those only elected for short periods of time to represent one state or another at a specific time by the voters who never knew of their larger agenda and connections to it.
These are the people and groups who would install a fascist dictator to rule our nation and dispose of democracy and our Constitution as if they had no value at all. And, given the opportunity to continue they will, but why? What do they seek to gain by this trade with pure evil?
In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology there were no kings; the consequence of which was, there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throws mankind into confusion. Holland, without a king hath enjoyed more peace for this last century than any of the monarchical governments in Europe. Antiquity favours the same remark; for the quiet and rural lives of the first Patriarchs have a happy something in them, which vanishes when we come to the history of Jewish royalty.
Government by kings was first introduced into the world by the Heathens, from whom the children of Israel copied the custom. It was the most prosperous invention the Devil ever set on foot for the promotion of idolatry. The Heathens paid divine honours to their deceased kings, and the Christian World hath improved on the plan by doing the same to their living ones. How impious is the title of sacred Majesty applied to a worm, who in the midst of his splendor is crumbling into dust!
As the exalting one man so greatly above the rest cannot be justified on the equal rights of nature, so neither can it be defended on the authority of scripture; for the will of the Almighty as declared by Gideon, and the prophet Samuel, expressly disapproves of government by Kings. All anti-monarchical parts of scripture, have been very smoothly glossed over in monarchical governments, but they undoubtedly merit the attention of countries which have their governments yet to form. Render unto Cesar the things which are Cesar’s, is the scripture doctrine of courts, yet it is no support of monarchical government, for the Jews at that time were without a king, and in a state of vassalage to the Romans.
Near three thousand years passed away, from the Mosaic account of the creation, till the Jews under a national delusion requested a king. Till then their form of government (except in extraordinary cases where the Almighty interposed) was a kind of Republic, administered by a judge and the elders of the tribes. Kings they had none, and it was held sinful to acknowledge any being under that title but the Lord of Hosts. And when a man seriously reflects on the idolatrous homage which is paid to the persons of kings, he need not wonder that the Almighty, ever jealous of his honour, should disapprove a form of government which so impiously invades the prerogative of Heaven.
Common Sense, Thomas Paine, 1776 https://oll.libertyfund.org/pages/1776-paine-common-sense-pamphlet
Do those who want a dictator over the United States or are convincing the American people to have a dictator and to let go of our Constitution and our democracy believe they will have exclusive access to the prosperity, riches, resources and opportunities our nation owns? Do they simply believe that getting a yes from one man to do something is easier than what they have to do now, whether it is mining in our national forests or getting to pollute as they find more profitable or working children in dangerous occupations with little or no pay rather than having them spend time being educated as they grow up?
Joy: They are letting literal Nazis into their den of Trump worship Feb 27, 2024
“For years we’ve heard from the right about “welfare queens” and other so-called “freeloaders” pulling one over on the government. But actually, it’s the wealthy who are the real freeloaders — pulling one over on us all by skirting their taxes. Where is the outrage over that?”
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Surely there are winners in war. Who would they be when fascism and an authoritarian dictatorship backed by oligarchy as it is in Russia with Putin and in Hungary under Orban, among other nations who’ve also changed a democracy and freedom into a tyrannical dictatorship – becomes the result for the United States at the hands of the far rightwing fascist Trump backers of the Republican Party as Newt Gingrich and others have remade it?
What are the riches and resources of America that they are after? Our people as their enslaved peasants without education, without opportunity, without upward mobility, without any real rights and freedoms, without liberty, without any hope of justice, without the rule of law to rein in our government and its actions, without our Constitution and its foundations? Is it the pools of riches that belong to the people of the United States of America that these fascist dominionists want for themselves? Is it both and more?
Does our public education system look like a vast pool of public resources available for the wealthy to uncover and harvest for themselves in some for-profit scheme while dealing in exclusivity and exclusion to all those who they would deem not to deserve access to it because of race, gender, religion, political party affiliation, nationality, sexual orientation, age, family connections, class status, or the arbitrary whims of the new feudal lords in the dictator’s oligarchy and governorships, as well as his own capricious, petty and vindictive choices he’s given the power to force upon each of us and our families?
Right Wing Nut Has DISTURBING Episode Live on Stage!
Luke Beasley
February 22, 2024 CPAC (Feb 21 – 24) – Jack Posobiec led the event with a statement that they are there to kill democracy and finish the job of Jan 6 plus Steve Bannon hosted talks describing how to make the most confusion possible to takeover the United States with the point of decimating the US govt and democracy (find his speech clip and the Posobiec one.)
Surprise: The GOP’s Favorite Gathering Was Full of Nazis Despite denials from the conference’s leaders, white supremacists, conspiracy theorists, and racists did attend CPAC over the weekend. Self-identified Nazis were at CPAC—and for all of the event leadership’s political waffling, NBC News had the receipts to prove it.
“On Saturday, NBC News reported that the fascists “didn’t meet any perceptible resistance” at the conservative conference, and mingled openly with Republican personalities and members of Turning Point USA, describing themselves as “national socialists” while discussing “race science,” skull measurements, and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.”
https://newrepublic.com/post/179282/surprise-gops-favorite-gathering-full-nazis
Feb. 23, 2024 Calls to ‘fight’ and echoes of Jan. 6 embraced by CPAC attendees A number of attendees at the annual gathering of conservative activists defended “what really happened on Jan. 6.”
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Jack Posobiec set off a wave of alarm after a video of his welcome speech at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference went viral. In the video, the right-wing activist and media personality said he wanted to end democracy and finish the mission of Jan. 6, installing a God-first government.
“Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely,” he said Thursday. “We didn’t get all the way there on Jan. 6, but we will endeavor to get rid of it.” (…)
Later he said, in response to what he meant – “What we’re trying to do is return it to the original system. We’re not destroying all of democracy, just their [Democrats’] democracy,” he added. But in his speech Friday, Posobiec continued to use rhetoric evocative of a violent revolution. “After we burn that swamp to the ground, we will establish the new American republic on its ashes, and our first order of business will be righteous retribution for those who betrayed America,” he declared.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/jack-posobiec-jan-6-2024-cpac-rcna140225
Wonder how Trump got this way in his political loyalty pledges, strong-arming Republicans and now completely taking over the Republican Party to serve him exclusively and not the United States – this article describes a little of what brought this into being as it is –
Cohn was best known as a ruthless prosecutor. During the Red Scare of the 1950s, he and Wisconsin senator Joe McCarthy, the fabulist and virulent nationalist crusader, had hauled dozens of alleged “Communist sympathizers” before a Senate panel. Earlier, the House Un-American Activities Committee had skewered artists and entertainers on similar charges, resulting in a trail of fear, prison sentences, and ruined careers for hundreds, many of whom had found common cause in fighting Fascism. But in the decades since, Cohn had become the premier practitioner of hardball deal-making in New York, having mastered the arcane rules of the city’s Favor Bank (the local cabal of interconnected influence peddlers) and its magical ability to provide inside fixes for its machers and rogues.
“You knew when you were in Cohn’s presence you were in the presence of pure evil,” said lawyer Victor A. Kovner, who had known him for years. Cohn’s power derived largely from his ability to scare potential adversaries with hollow threats and spurious lawsuits. And the fee he demanded for his services? Ironclad loyalty.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/06/donald-trump-roy-cohn-relationship
Is it the perfect storm? At a time our adult population finds thinking difficult with all the Russian disinformation being repeated on FoxNews and other rightwing outlets repetitively across their shows and on other right wing and Christian evangelical news sources, plus the massive conspiracy theories that took hold of QAnon and Trump’s claims of election fraud despite all of that being refuted with facts, added to the defunded public education system of Reagan onward caused by Republican actions in every state legislature and in Congress since 1980 – can our voters know to protect our democracy and our Constitution as valuable, or even to vote because it’s important?
Will Americans know that to allow anyone (and especially Trump), to be given all of the powers and resources of the greatest country and economy the modern world has known – without restraints, without conscience, without regard for others, without justice, without morals, without ethics, without any hindrances nor consequences for their actions – would be horrific and an abomination to mankind in every way and at every level?
Installing a dictator over the US to rule us rather than our elected representative government democratically elected, would change more than the character of the United States. It would permanently alter the opportunities, freedoms, liberty, justice, human rights, civil rights, prosperity, accomplishments, potentials, discoveries, scientific advances, medical advances, economic stability and profitability, knowledge and education, health, well-being, national and international security, environment, engineering, applied sciences, currency value, overall value of our markets, and every future generation including the one living right now as our own children and grandchildren.
Altering these aspects in this way does not historically yield positive results, nor does it make things better in countries around the world who have been subjected to this Nazi fascist playbook of taking a democracy and turning it into a dictatorship. Look at their economies. They suck. Look at what they produce in manufacturing, science, knowledge, engineering, advances to make their citizens lives better, infrastructure improvements – any of it, and it is obvious that dictators do a poor job of increasing or improving any of that and commonly are so corrupt that all of those things go backwards, into disrepair, into degradation rather than improvement.
The facts prove it. Dictators steal countries blind to serve themselves with every resource of the nation from the time and lives of its citizens used in ways to suit the dictator’s whims, demands and egomania, to stealing the nation’s natural and economic resources to fill their own coffers, fund their lifestyles and whims along with their family’s while depleting resources that would be otherwise available to the entire population of the nation and the nation’s needs.
From Thomas Paine’s pamphlet, Common Sense written in 1776 –
In England a King hath little more to do than to make war and give away places; which, in plain terms, is to empoverish the nation and set it together by the ears. A pretty business indeed for a man to be allowed eight hundred thousand sterling a year for, and worshipped into the bargain! Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.
https://oll.libertyfund.org/pages/1776-paine-common-sense-pamphlet
This blog post is not a 3-6 second get your attention thing. I don’t know how to do that. I’m writing these posts with the information that I can find hoping that you might know how to do that to get the same information condensed and as exciting as a sports announcer at a race car event or soccer game so voters in the United States of every age will know about these things some way. And, to get them to go vote when the election comes.
If every eligible voter came out in 2024 and voted – what would the results be?
Would we really be a nation that allowed a Trump-owned Republican Party in the throes of Fascism to install him as a dictator and enact the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 action plan to gut our govt and make it an authoritarian dictatorship?
No, we damn sure would not.
- cricketdiane 02-28-2024
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