Monday, March 7, 2022

Opposing False Doctrine

WITHIN AMERICAN CONSERVATISM there is a strong strain of pro-Putin sentiment, on the far right, which constitututes a good portion of American conservatism. Within this same strain is a noticeable strain of neo-NAZIism and white supremacy, racism, and homophobia, among many other ills. This is the bulwark of the Republican party, the evangelical Christian right wing conservative capitalistic coalition. The KKK, white supremacists, neo-NAZIs, and Christian nationalists, who want the United States to become a theocracy, all have in common an embrace of far right conservatism, Trump, and, in many if not most instances, are all the same people. They like Putin because Putin is a far right wing populist demagogue, like Trump, of the sort they adore, and they see Russia as a bastian of plutocratic patriarchical white Christian supremacy, as they similarly envision the United States. Russia's actual great ethnic and religious diversity they ignore, much like they try to, without success, in the United States. Cultural, religious, and ethnic diversity, rather than homogeneity, appears to be the wave of the future, every where on Earth. White Christian conservatives of course hate this, but society in general wants it, including societal acceptance of sexual diversity. Our right wing geniuses are perhaps able to understanad that gay people are not going back into the closet, and that nobody can put them there. Every plank in the currrent American conservative platform is rotten, and must be discarded. Current American conservatism is a basket of deplorable ideas, as Hillary Clinton might say, perhaps the very worst of which are climate change and Covid 19 denial, and the refusal to fight either one, both of which have already cost millions of lives, with millions more to follow. Not only do these demented admirers of Putin and Trump refuse to fight climate change and covid 19, they refuse to fight or even acknowledge racism and ethnic hatred, all of which must be actively opposed and eliminated, with government being a prime tool to this end. Cultural, ethnic, religious, artistic, and sexual diversity, rather than conformity, are the future of humanity. Harmful, fascist-like action based on primitive, barbaric, outdated religious beliefs must also be eliminated. Hate transgender people if you must, but at least have the decency to leave them alone, and to not torture them. Many conservatives, perhaps a majority of Christian conservatives in America, are sufficiently insane to believe, or pretend to belive, that when a doctor treats a transgender child like a transgender patient, the doctor is abusing the child, and must be prevented from doing so by law. This, of course, is insane, like much if not most contemporary conservatism, the climate denial, and all that. As usual, conservatives have it backwards. Child absue occurs by refusing to treat transgender children like transgender children, thus greatly harming the child, all because of some primitive, outdated, barbaric, idiotic religious beliefs which should be discarded. These new state laws prohibiting doctors from treating transgender children like transgender children are nothing other than child abuse by law. The laws are the result of twisted conservative thinking. What primitive animals we often are. Its time, high time, past time, to stop the insanity. Stop the insanitiy of homophobia, racism, clmte change and Covid 19 denial, and stop the crazy, primitive, harmful social, socio-economic and religious beliefs and practices inherent in conservatism, and in all too many conservative institutions. Stop them from doing further harm to the world.

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