An Intellectual Virus For Fighting Lies

 A MAJORITY of the American people is Democratic progressive, surveys reveal. And, America is changing, fast., becoming more colored (nearly half of all Americans turning eighteen this year are not "white") more secular, more scientific, progressive, shedding tradition and conservative white Christian culture. This trend is verified by sustained research, and embodied mainly in the forthcoming young generation. Resentful of this emerging trend, conservatism, acting through the Republican party, like a desperate, dying, trapped animal, is fighting it, delaying the inevitable, by pushing a far right agenda as the state level to try to counter the progressive trends nationally. That's what the Trump movement is all about, a reactionary movement to turn back time, an angry response to social change. States with majority Republican legislatures, "red states",  are frantically pushing ahead with far right extremist agendas, outlawing abortion in violation of the constitution, making gun rights unconditional, truncating voting rights, attacking transgender rights, outlawing the teaching of the history of racism in the United States. In the long run, none of these extremist measures will stand legal tests. They are desperate, last ditch, momentary reactionary expedients. All are contrary to basic American values, which are more progressive. Like their beloved cult leader Donald Trump, who despite his election defeat and impeachment humiliations remains the face of American conservatism, conservatives resort to lies and alternative false facts to justify and bolster its increasingly unpopular agenda. Donald Trump now says that the violent pro Trump mob which attacked and ransacked the nation's Capitol building on January sixth was a "loving" group, defending freedom, trying to reclaim an election stolen from him for him. A loving group, the mob which was looking to kill Vice President Pence, any and all Democrats, and overturn the electoral college, using some mysterious math. Most conservatives,, most Republicans, including those of the evangelical Christian kind, support this insane version of reality. I keep hoping for a sudden outbreak of honesty and critical intellectual thinking to emerge in and sweep across mid America, spreading like the most contagious Covid virus imaginable across America's fruited plain, all the way to both coasts, from sea to shining sea.  In vain though this hope almost certainly is,  I sense that it is widely shared, among educated progressive at least. whom conservatives call "the liberal elite." Its up to the progressive educated community to unleash the virus; natural law precludes any such mutation to be engendered within conservative Christian-dumb, for which "evolution' of any sort, human, biological, cultural or moral, isn't possible, because it isn't Biblical. In al three Abrahamic religions, one of which is Christianity, the first rule given by God is that knowledge shall be suppressed, not disseminated. Imitating as always the viciously dishonest style of their messiah, from whom sanity if not the election was stolen,  Trump loving reprobates have accused me of "mocking God" and "opposing the pledge of allegiance", although I strongly support and admire both God and pledge, and  have long and actively advocated for both. Trump followers lie, and are inherently morally bankrupt. Thus, immoral bottom feeders are just being immoral bottom feeders.