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I literally meant fundamentalists. God is a Christian nation. Gays are the devil. Jews are evil. The sanctity of life. Leading to abortion bans, book bans, educ
by nielsbot 3y ago
I literally meant fundamentalists. God is a Christian nation. Gays are the devil. Jews are evil. The sanctity of life. Leading to abortion bans, book bans, education and laws modeled on religious laws. That’s the core of the american right. And it’s being exploited by capitalists.
That said capitalism is a near religion in the US and “runs things” for both the left and right in the government.
As for your comment—I think you’re conflating tribalism especially as enabled on social media with actual religion.
- noduerme 3y agoYeah, those religious fundamentalist ideologies have no place in a modern, civilized society. My issue with the Progressive "tribe" is that it looks at the other tribes, concludes to some degree correctly that they're a bunch of illiterate fascists, and then declares that anti-capitalist economic leveling and socialist reeducation are the only possible cure. Their small-d democratic credentials are hardly better than those of the guy with the horns. It's been about 15 years of social media, and it's hard not to take it as a gauge of true political sentiment at this point. There aren't a lot of other outlets where we get to hear what people are thinking. But I do go to a lot of bars, both in deep red Oregon country and in ultra-blue Portland, and I'm not actually on social media, so I'm basing this off what I hear from people in person over a drink, not stuff I read on X/Twitter. Simply put: In PDX, I own two cars, I'm evil. In Salem, I'm a Jewish liberal, I'm evil. I've come to the conclusion that they're all idiots.
- nielsbot 3y agoAre you saying you're worried about communism?