(December 12, 2016 at 4:32 pm)Secular Elf Wrote: I view Conservatism and Conservatives as a threat to democracy and a properly run government. It has a history of stopping and turning back reforms. The Republican Party has shown that it really does not care for the middle and lower classes, but only cares for the rich and the corporate elite. Add Dominionism to the mix and you have a very poisonous cocktail indeed.
I am really frightened for the future of America and for my people. Let me explain: by "my people" I mean all of the Nones and Secularists that make up part of the Left, the atheists, agnostics, and Freethinkers and all the un-churched. For many years I have seen the Religious Right as dangerous, and especially when I found out how the Dominionists view those who are not exactly like them, and how they want to establish a fascist theocratic Christian state. Levitical Law is quite clear: those who do not cow-tow to the deity are eliminated. We are in grave danger here in America. And those of you around the other parts of the world are in danger too.
So what I am getting at is that I do not think we who are Progressive in our politics and are skeptical of religion should be complacent or unprepared for what is coming down the road. I think we need to be more aggressive in our response to Conservatism and Dominionism. We should be doing all that we need to do to protect ourselves from a possible oppressive regime.
So far I have not seen any discussion about taking measures to protect ourselves within the Secularist community. Thus I am kick starting it now.
What are everyone else's thoughts?
I wonder if the fears of the progressive left are rationally justified or misinformed hysteria. I notice the left seems to make mountains out of mole hills, and really tend to get worked up in their own minds and project their fears on to the world around them. The left seems to be stuck in a dependency state which is the lowest on the maturity continum, where they blame their problems on others and live in an extended state of victim identity. Their fears manifest into their perceived reality.
Trump is really more of a businessman who hopes to rise the tide to raise all ships. It's an agenda to raise all living standards. On the left they like to cater to what's best for the various factions in the LGBTQ+ community, or what's best for black people, or what's best for women, or what's best for X Y Z. How about an agenda of what's best for everyone which will make people forget about their differences and move forward to the point that social justice issues don't need to be addressed because economic security will be addressed on the whole curing many ills that the social justice warriors focus on. It's one of the reasons I left the DNC many years back. It was too fragmented and seemed out of date.
I'm optimistic about what Trump will do. I'm more of a classical liberal, but find often conservatives have better arguments and are not as emotional as progressive leftists who try to shut down dialog by name calling. They kind of did this to themselves because as the rest of us grew up the left seemed to try and one up their peers to score social points by being more and more offended to prove and validate their perceived moral superiority when in the end they ended up looking like crazy people who demanded others validate their deranged belief system.
