Progressivism is absolutely a religion. It’s just in beta mode.
Constantly deferring to an imaginary technocratic future isn’t any different than heaven.
The secular version of “God works in mysterious ways” is simply to acknowledge you are a terrible human being once every 30 posts.
Christianity took a pretty good swing at GTO. It’s in need of massive upgrades that nobody wants to truly acknowledge since that historically requires massive amounts of blood. And nobody wants to spill that blood so instead we are creating algorithms to determine who will be the new Satan.
I’m pro-choice but also acknowledge that there are negative effects for a society that completely divorces the act of sex from having children.
I also believe a man should be willing to be a father if he’s going to have sex to begin with since birth control isn’t 100% effective.
What I suggested would lead to a total victory, which would lead to a reorganization of the right-wing side. Obviously I would advocate for putting down an insurrection and using the full force of the justice system to punish the insurrectionists.
Ideologies and religions are just heuristics that are necessary for many people to be able to function in society because they are cognitively unequipped to handle the inherent randomness of the world from a mentally naked state.
No, I just know those people aren’t going to disappear into thin air and we have a two party system. If/when the current party alignment collapses, then a new party will emerge. Ideally, for the good of the country, its Overton Window would be like Tom Carper on the left, Joe Manchin and Mitt Romney in the middle, and Mitch McConnell on the right edge… Which would leave the left-wing party with like Schumer on the right wing, Ed Markey near the center, AOC and Bernie on the mainstream left, and a little more room on their left.
But we wouldn’t have much influence/role in deciding how the new right-wing party forms, short of perhaps driving the Manchin types out of the left-wing party. Our job is to get the country to a point where that realignment has to happen, which is almost certainly a decades-long process.
“In America, the radical Left is hell-bent on reshaping institutions that have stood in the way of the outcomes they desire. They want to pack the Supreme Court to change the current conservative nature of the Court which was achieved through the democratic process. They intend to abolish the Electoral College to shift power away from rural states to large, blue states. They would also have a federal takeover of our state election systems and undermine election integrity. The radical Left is now calling for the end of the Senate filibuster as a response to the draft opinion being released publicly. This only compounds the problem. Why destroy the Senate after this outrage against the Supreme Court’s deliberative process? When it comes to outcomes, the radical Left will do whatever they view as necessary – institutions be damned.
Historically, realignments occur when cross-cutting issues divide a party’s coalition. January 6, unfortunately, does not seem to be that issue. Donald Trump seems to be holding the right-wing coalition together. It is possible that realignment can’t happen until Trump is dead. Whatever issue comes up, it will be one where Bernie>Markey>Schumer>Carper>Manchin>Romney>McConnell likely isn’t the strict order from left to right.
Obviously very real. If you’re a Republican respect for America’s institutions is the most paramount thing. They’re the thing that has given you your electoral edge.
Protest on the Utah State Capitol steps yesterday with SLC Mayor Mendenhall speaking here. Fair crowd, got maybe 1/3 larger; might have been limited by the time of day and short notice.
It’s hard for me to get worked up about the actual decision for several reasons. One of the problems is that we didn’t have this level of outrage over Bush v Gore when, in retrospect, maybe we would have been justified in having a January 6 of our own in 2001. There’s a part of me that feels America is getting punched in the face like it deserves for the sin of being too complacent.
