{"id":1314,"date":"2022-08-05T23:30:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T23:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1314"},"modified":"2022-08-05T23:32:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T23:32:48","slug":"zealotry-aborted-kansas-shows-america-not-ready-for-religious-fascism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeppscommentaries.online\/?p=1314","title":{"rendered":"Zealotry Aborted — Kansas shows America not ready for religious fascism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zealotry Aborted<\/b><\/p>\n

Kansas shows America not ready for religious fascism<\/b><\/p>\n

Bryan Zepp Jamieson<\/i><\/p>\n

August 5th<\/sup> 2022<\/i><\/p>\n

The only thing about the Kansas vote to reaffirm the state Supreme Court upholding the right to abortion that surprised me was the amount it won by: 59-41. I figured it would pass, but I wasn\u2019t expecting the blowout margin.<\/p>\n

Poll after poll has shown that the usurpation of the Constitution by the zealots on the federal Supreme Court is wildly unpopular, and free states are hustling to encode abortion rights if needed, and vowing to provide such rights to enslaved women in the zealot states. That\u2019s why Kansas wasn\u2019t a surprise so far as the result went. Abortion, and separation of church and state, cross partisan lines. It\u2019s one thing to say that Kansas is one of the reddest states in the union; but not all Republicans march in lockstep with the preachers and demagogues that dominate that beleaguered party. And independents in particular will break ranks when it comes to maintaining rights and freedoms.<\/p>\n

Kansas all but invented the term \u201cprairie populism.\u201d Often deeply religious, and conservative, but also strong-willed and independent. They may like and respect their Sunday preacher just fine, but they aren\u2019t about to let him dictate how they should vote, or what rights the church can take away that the Constitution promises.<\/p>\n

Kansas is one of the most heavily propagandized states in America, with all radio and much television devoted to reactionary Protestant broadcasting, or the endless lies and undermining of freedom that stems from hate radio. I figured that there were maybe 5% of the voters there brainwashed enough to cut off their own noses to \u201cown the libs.\u201d Well, it\u2019s happened before. Look at the obviously incompetent, unfit, and inept trolls in Congress who got there despite having nothing\u2014nothing at all\u2014to offer other than snark and clownish defiance.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m happy to see that I was wrong, by about 7% of Kansas\u2019 population. I figured abortion rights would win, but I was expecting a 52-48 margin. That it went the way it did is cause for considerable optimism.<\/p>\n

One phenomenon that may have underlay the result was the open, gleeful, and acquisitive viciousness and cruelty that the zealots and the fascists of the GOP displayed. A few days after the Supreme Court (Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Comey Barrett) decided to kick the rights of hundreds of millions of people under the nearest Bible, a nightmare scenario emerged, of a ten year old rape victim who had to travel to a neighboring state for an abortion. Any reasonable or rational people would look at that situation and consider making the new law less strident, more humane. There is no situation in which any government, no matter how god-burdened, should force a ten-year-old to give birth to her rapist\u2019s baby.<\/p>\n

The Washington Times is one of the shabbier exercises in propaganda journalism given birth by a different set of Zealots, the Moonies, although they dumped the rag a few years back, but it\u2019s still a rag. That exercise in dysfunctional journalism cast doubt on the story, writing, \u201cIf there was a 10-year-old girl out there who had been impregnated, certainly there\u2019d be a criminal investigation into her rape.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost said this week that there was \u201cnot a whisper\u201d of evidence to back up the story. \u2018The bottom line is it is a crime if you\u2019re a mandated reporter to fail to report. It\u2019s also the fact that in Ohio the rape of a 10-year-old means life in prison,\u2019Mr. Yost said on Fox News.\u201d Yost either had no idea what he was talking about and didn\u2019t bother to fact check first, or he was flat-out lying. The rape and rapist had been reported, and he is awaiting trial. But that didn\u2019t stop zealots from sending death threats meant for the girl for the crime of getting raped and being a political embarrassment to them.<\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s the lies. Several \u201cjustices\u201d on the Supreme Court lied, blatantly and with malice, declaring before the Senate and while under oath that Roe Vs. Wade was \u201cestablished law\u201d and they would respect stare decisis<\/i>, which is the legal notion that precedent should determine legal decision making in a case involving similar facts. They lied, and got appointed under fraudulent circumstances.<\/p>\n

All the anti-abortion crowd who said they just wanted to limit abortion, and didn\u2019t want to interfere with contraception or a woman\u2019s right to private medical counsel immediately started passing pre-written laws contradicting those stances. Some states are even trying to make it illegal to go to another state for an abortion, or even protest against the law.<\/p>\n

Religious zealots believe that they have to be cruel in god\u2019s name either because a) god is cruel, or b) god is kind, but wants to test his followers by making them be cruel. Zealots also believe that it\u2019s ok to lie to \u201cunbelievers\u201d (everyone else) in the name of god. The zealots and corrupt toadies on the Supreme Court have unleashed this miasma of humanity loose on the land, and hideous stories of repression, cruelty, and oppression are emerging every where.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s how theocracies\u2014all theocracies\u2014work. The starry-eyed idiots who declare that life would be perfect if we put [god, allah, jesus] in charge miss an important fact: god isn\u2019t running the show. It never has. It doesn\u2019t exist. What a theocracy is is a group of politicians who find god to be the perfect figleaf for their own corruption and viciousness. God is the trump card that ends debate. You end up with The Church running the country, and it\u2019s accountable only to an imaginary doormat that says whatever it is The Church wants it to say and says so on its behalf. It\u2019s the ultimate scam, the Saudi Arabia, the 14th<\/sup> century Europe, and Cromwell\u2019s England. The lowest misery of history, repeated over and over.<\/p>\n

Kansas voters may or may not have figured that out. But a significant number of them realize that these people, these zealots, are not to be trusted, and allowed to run loose, will destroy America and everyone in her.<\/p>\n

The naked face of religious and fascist zealotry has been exposed. People who wanted to believe are turning away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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