This isn't about religion as much as it is about unearned power and the gluttony of some, mostly in the GOP in the USA just now, to get it and keep it at any cost to any others.
Authoritarian states are not born. They are made. Often using the veneer of "democratic actions" or "lawful acts" -- think Turkey/Erdogen or Hungary/Orban. Even P…
This isn't about religion as much as it is about unearned power and the gluttony of some, mostly in the GOP in the USA just now, to get it and keep it at any cost to any others.
Authoritarian states are not born. They are made. Often using the veneer of "democratic actions" or "lawful acts" -- think Turkey/Erdogen or Hungary/Orban. Even Putin's Russia tried and failed to go down a different path at one brief point. So we can look at Turkey, Hungary, most of South America, and some of Asia, and see our future step by step by step under the hands of MAGA and lustful gluttonous Republicans.
It is heart breaking that there are no John McCains or Barry Goldwaters (or even Mitt Romney as he was 20 years ago) anywhere to be found now. Men of principle, integrity, honor, honesty, are more important than men's policies and preferences -- today's GOP lacks all of that -- and much of what they are doing (with the help of Democrats looking the other way, pretending it isn't happening) is LEGAL... technically.... (for instance, NOWHERE in a democratic Republic should ANY politician be able to REMOVE an elected official without damn good cause! But then they shouldn't be able to rig elections either.)
This isn't about religion as much as it is about unearned power and the gluttony of some, mostly in the GOP in the USA just now, to get it and keep it at any cost to any others.
Authoritarian states are not born. They are made. Often using the veneer of "democratic actions" or "lawful acts" -- think Turkey/Erdogen or Hungary/Orban. Even Putin's Russia tried and failed to go down a different path at one brief point. So we can look at Turkey, Hungary, most of South America, and some of Asia, and see our future step by step by step under the hands of MAGA and lustful gluttonous Republicans.
It is heart breaking that there are no John McCains or Barry Goldwaters (or even Mitt Romney as he was 20 years ago) anywhere to be found now. Men of principle, integrity, honor, honesty, are more important than men's policies and preferences -- today's GOP lacks all of that -- and much of what they are doing (with the help of Democrats looking the other way, pretending it isn't happening) is LEGAL... technically.... (for instance, NOWHERE in a democratic Republic should ANY politician be able to REMOVE an elected official without damn good cause! But then they shouldn't be able to rig elections either.)