It’s not something that we don’t know about, we just allowed our minds to trick us into thinking that they were no long a threat. White Supremacy cloaked in theological dogma never stopped being a threat. It has been lying quietly like a dormant cancer waiting to corrupt enough cells to stage a surging comeback. It is now making its presence clear and it is daring us to try to stop it from taking what its followers believe is their supreme privileged role over all nonwhites and non-christians..
Once they observed that Minorities and Progressives would not engage in numbers strong enough to thwart them in 2000, 2004, 2010, 2014, 2016, and 2020 they successfully enacted strategies funded by the billionaire Koch Brothers (The Tea Party), billionaire Robert Mercer ( Funded Ted Cruz for President and later DJT and Steve Bannon), anti-tax advocate Grover Norquist ,and thousands of corporate entities under the name of ‘The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) -a nonprofit organization of conservative state legislators and private sector representatives who draft and share model legislation for distribution among state governments in the United States.
These entities and others like them have been working for generations to regain ground they felt they lost when LBJ successfully oversaw the enactment of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights legislation of the 60’s. They sat back and used their religious camouflaged to gain support from Conservative Blacks who continued their alliances to the Republican Party even after the racist white Dixiecrats fled the Democratic Party to support Nixon and Reagan and eventually transform the Republican Party of Lincoln and Everett Dirksen into the racist theologically authoritarian maga party of DJT.
Many Minorities have embraced the religious elements of the party and ignored the racist parts. Many Progressives have stood against Democrats for not being bold when their legislative numbers have not been sufficient enough on the state and local levels to do anything in ‘Conservative Red States’ and they don’t have the number to leverage much of a policy agenda on the Federal level, especially in the US Senate. My point is the woefully educated and informed US electorate now finds itself on the cusp of being totally impotent to stop the will of the ‘American Taliban’. These people are White Supremist who believe the US is a christian nation that was founded to be ruled by whites and the Constitutionally mandated separation of church and state is to be completely ignored because man’s law is subordinate to their god’s laws as they interpret scripture.
Here is the bottom line. If any one of the candidates for major state office wins their elections in battle ground states during the upcoming elections, they will have and will exercise the power to hand over the Presidency and control of Congress to DJT and any of his acolytes. They will use the SCOTUS to continue to rule in favor of the rights of states to breach Constitutionally granted freedoms and reimpose laws that that disadvantage nonwhites, women, LGBTQ people, workers, children, and those who lack wealth. Basically 95% of the US population will be negatively impacted.
We are seeing a replay of how the ‘Third Reich’ rose to power, and the forces that stopped them before are now under the thumb of those who are intent on using theology in a play to succeed where authoritarianism has failed miserably before. We have ignored this threat for too long. We have celebrated winning a battle as the war took a turn against us. Now the survival of our liberty and freedom is at serious risk.
A Reasonable Point of View 