Welcome to the new year. It is a major
election year in the United States, and you can expect it to be totally crazy,
irrational, and disgusting.
As I have previously written, the human
brain did not evolve to help us understand ourselves, or the world, or the
cosmos, but to dominate one another and, sometimes, to cooperate with one
another. Conquests and alliances and mates. That's what human intelligence
evolved for.
Recently, the alliances part has shrunk.
This year, intelligence will be used primarily in the service of antagonism.
One example of this is that the Republican Party has become the party of hatred
toward anyone who disagrees with it. The right wing of the Republican Party
even seems to hate the moderate Republicans. I can't quite figure out what
Donald Trump's message is, but it sounds like, "I hate everyone who
disagrees with me in any way." Can you imagine a progressive person like
myself yearning for the old days when "Republican" meant someone like
Mitt Romney, or George W. Bush, or George H. W. Bush, or Ronald Reagan? At
least they didn't talk like they hated everyone.
This being a religion blog, I would like
to tie this in with conservative Christianity. If Donald Trump ends up being
the Republican nominee, you can bet your bottom euro that conservative
Christians will support him enthusiastically as the person whom God has chosen
to lead us forward in these immoral modern times. And the reason they can do
this is that they seem to be completely convinced that, for Republicans, there
is no such thing as hypocrisy, and Republicans need never be ashamed of
anything they do. They are, after all, God's chosen people.
A couple of examples. The most visible
one is, of course, Trump himself. He cheated on wife number one with the woman
who became wife number two, and on wife number two with the woman who became
wife number three, and fathered a child out of wedlock. Obviously God's choice
to make America a moral nation again.
A second, recently-visible example is
the Kentucky county clerk, Kim Davis, who refused to issue marriage licenses to
gay couples. She believes that God gave her the right to make up the law for
herself. But even more than this, she is a hypocrite. A thorough, complete
hypocrite. She puts herself up as an example of morality, yet she has had four
marriages. She gave birth to twins fathered by the man who was to become
husband three five months (count on your fingers, folks) after divorcing
husband one; they were adopted by husband two. She is on number four, and God
knows how many more husbands He has planned out for her. She claims to have
repented, but she still puts herself up as an example of morality. (Should we
forget all about her past, because she has repented? Republicans would not
allow any Democrat to be forgiven. As a matter of fact, in the case of
President Obama, they invent sins to
accuse him of.)
Republicans consider themselves exempted
from whatever moral standards they think God expects the rest of us to follow.
This means that they can and perhaps will do anything, anything at all. Combine
this with the fact that they think God wants them to possess as many
semiautomatic weapons and other firearms as possible, and you get a scenario of
total chaos. I hope I am wrong about this, but it is best to prepare oneself
mentally and not be taken totally by surprise should the worst possibility come
to pass.
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