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5/31/2022
Uvalde, the Southern Baptist Church, and the Murderous, Traumatizing Failure of Conservative Ideology
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I have written so much about guns, so much about Christian fundamentalism, and I dont know if Im repeating myself anymore. Post-Reagan conservatism is, at its heart, at its base, a death wish because of the insane adherence to fundamentalist Christianity, which sees our time on earth as a way station before the bliss of the grave when your soul can join Jesus. Of course the guns dont matter. Of course the deaths of children dont matter. Why, those kids are lucky that they get to be with Christ so soon and not suffer all the awful sins of existing as a physical being. If youre bathed in the blood of Christ, then what does it matter if your blood bathes the walls of the elementary school. It's madness, and it should be treated as madness.
Democrats shouldnt be afraid of talking about what complete, breathtakingly fucked hypocrites Republicans are. They call us groomers? Please, SBC. They call us baby killers? They call themselves pro-life? Its a fucking joke. Theyre a fucking joke. Go after guns. Go after evangelicals. And stop trying to say there are any "good" Republicans. Just because Liz Cheney hates Donald Trump doesn't mean that she's a motherfucking hero. She's gonna vote for more guns and fewer voting rights and more abortion restrictions and bans. Fuck her. Destroy the word "Republican." Wreck "conservative." Make it poisonous because it is. We have thousands of dead and traumatized children to prove it.
One day, perhaps, in a future that Im not sure is going to happen, historians will hopefully look back on this era and write new textbooks for kids at school. Those textbooks will hopefully talk about how a cabal of wealthy fucks tried to hide the past from its children while at the same time allowing those same children to live in a nation that requires them to learn how to attempt to survive being massacred in their classroom. Those historians will hopefully teach the kids of the future the cruelty of the leaders who thought a book about being gay was more obscene than children's bodies being shredded by bullets. And those historians will hopefully say that this was just a continuation of the very violence and hatred at the core of America's story, that what those terrible people were trying to hide was themselves.
If we don't do better, if we don't take this anger we have right now, this despair, this sorrow and turn it into action, then we deserve to be a footnote in that history. And that footnote will say that we knew that an ideology of hatred and violence was ruining another generation, yet we still failed to do everything we could to stop it. We failed to save ourselves or our kids.
Let's not be like the Uvalde cops.
teach1st
(5,935 posts)Thanks for posting this, kpete!
https://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2022/05/uvalde-southern-baptist-church-and.html
Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)calimary
(81,458 posts)"If we don't do better, if we don't take this anger we have right now, this despair, this sorrow and turn it into action, then we deserve to be a footnote in that history. And that footnote will say that we knew that an ideology of hatred and violence was ruining another generation, yet we still failed to do everything we could to stop it. We failed to save ourselves or our kids."
Alice Kramden
(2,168 posts)Agree completely
Upthevibe
(8,071 posts)kacekwl
(7,021 posts)did it with liberal and democaRAT. It's definitely time to show no mercy.
paleotn
(17,954 posts)doesn't mean she's our friend. Same for the Lincoln Project. While I appreciate what they've done of late, I also realize that they, Liz Cheney and others advocate positions I find abhorrent. And they're also still members of the political party that got us into this mess to start with.
Cozmo
(1,402 posts)Skittles
(153,193 posts)I agree, there are NO "good republicans" - NONE