It’s not a coincidence that I call the government this coup is clearly intended to establish a “plutocratic/christofascist autocracy.”
I have no doubt that many in the Heritage Foundation are sincere in their christofascism, but I also have no doubt that the corporations and billionaires who are bankrolling the whole thing (not just the HF, but Trump, the corrupt supreme court, the complicit media and so on) care little to nothing about all of that. They understand both the popular appeal of religious fundamentalism and the avenues of control it provides, but their goal is much simpler - to gain as much authority as possible so that they’ll be free to rob and plunder without the risk of facing an empowered and angry electorate.
The christofascists are definitely a threat, but in the wider scheme of things, they’re just tools.
This makes me think that the religious theocracy will all be a farce. Something meant to punish the lower classes while the upper classes get to live in a parallel liberal society. I mean surely these billionaires realize that in a true christofascist state they’d lose all the opulence and hedonism available to them now. Seems like something they wouldn’t want to risk.
This is exactly how it is in Dubai. All the sheiks in Saudi Arabia live pious lives in their own country and then escape to Dubai to drink alcohol with their girlfriends.
Hopefully the rube that gets put in the dictator’s position gets the memo. A true believer might get the idea that they’re bound by the same religious bullshit as the rest of us.
It’s not a coincidence that I call the government this coup is clearly intended to establish a “plutocratic/christofascist autocracy.”
I have no doubt that many in the Heritage Foundation are sincere in their christofascism, but I also have no doubt that the corporations and billionaires who are bankrolling the whole thing (not just the HF, but Trump, the corrupt supreme court, the complicit media and so on) care little to nothing about all of that. They understand both the popular appeal of religious fundamentalism and the avenues of control it provides, but their goal is much simpler - to gain as much authority as possible so that they’ll be free to rob and plunder without the risk of facing an empowered and angry electorate.
The christofascists are definitely a threat, but in the wider scheme of things, they’re just tools.
This makes me think that the religious theocracy will all be a farce. Something meant to punish the lower classes while the upper classes get to live in a parallel liberal society. I mean surely these billionaires realize that in a true christofascist state they’d lose all the opulence and hedonism available to them now. Seems like something they wouldn’t want to risk.
Decadence and opulence will still only be a private jet trip away.
This is exactly how it is in Dubai. All the sheiks in Saudi Arabia live pious lives in their own country and then escape to Dubai to drink alcohol with their girlfriends.
Hopefully the rube that gets put in the dictator’s position gets the memo. A true believer might get the idea that they’re bound by the same religious bullshit as the rest of us.
Oh kind of like Catholicism was/is? Or Wahhabism? Or pretty much any religious movement that dabbles in politics.