• InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
          12·
          2 years ago

          Dems love to trumpet that they’ll “restore Roe”. It’s all lies. There are only two ways to do that. Number one is highly unlikely. And number two is so out there for the dems - it’s as likely as science fiction.

          1. Pack the court and then pass the law.

          2. Simply give the court the middle finger, do what they want and pretend the court doesn’t exist.

           

          If you’re told USA #1 your whole life…

          American exceptionalism and American civil religion are Americans’ drugs of choice. And it’s a heavy substance abuse problem that’s bipartisan.

          I’ll leave this here.

          American civil religion

          Fourteen tenets

          In a survey of more than fifty years of American civil religion scholarship, Squiers identifies fourteen principal tenets:

          1. Filial piety

          2. Reverence to certain sacred texts and symbols such as the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the flag

          3. The sanctity of American institutions

          4. The belief in God or a deity

          5. The idea that rights are divinely given

          6. The notion that freedom comes from God through government

          7. Governmental authority comes from God or a higher transcendent authority

          8. The conviction that God can be known through the American experience

          9. God is the supreme judge

          10. God is sovereign

          11. America’s prosperity results from God’s providence

          12. America is a “city on a hill” or a beacon of hope and righteousness

          13. The principle of sacrificial death and rebirth

          14. America serves a higher purpose than self-interests

            • Des [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
              7·
              2 years ago

              conservatives now call themselves libertarians to differentiate themselves from the fascists

              the vast majority of secular libertarians became anarchists, socialists, or commies

              purely anecdotal and somewhat vibes based but i was kind of “in the shit” of libertarian community bs pre-2016 and saw this starting to take shape and then trump kicked it off hard

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.netBannedEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      It’s why I consider Putin to be a liberal with 95% less decorum. He still puts on show elections because, well, he’s a liberal. But everyone knows who’s in charge. Even with actual elections, most Russians either support Putin and/or Russia as an institution, so anyone supporting it gets their support. No different than Americans, except Americans are 95% decorum and they’re convinced everything they see is reality then get mad when it doesn’t conform to what they’re told.