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By Zepp<\/a> <\/span> on Thursday, May 24, 2018<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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May 24th<\/sup> 2018<\/i><\/p>\n

A lot of people are puzzling over the fact that 80% of Christian evangelicals in America support the Trumpenfuhrer. After all, with his swindling, cheating, lying, whoring and corruption, isn\u2019t he the very antithesis of the values that evangelicals claim as their own personal turf?<\/p>\n

It reveals a dark and dirty facet of religiosity that most people either don\u2019t notice or refuse to acknowledge: all fundamentalist religions are deeply authoritarian in nature, and they are attracted to any powerful political figure whose aims correlate with their own, or at least might work to their advantage.<\/p>\n

Trump knows this because he is a student of Hitler\u2019s \u201cNew World Order\u201d, which is a collection of the German tyrant\u2019s speeches and a how-to manual on how to manipulate diverse groups to his ends. He knows that Hitler got support before and even during the war from the Roman Catholic hierarchy, and widespread support from Lutherans and other German protestant groups. I<\/p>\n

t\u2019s not by mistake that the unofficial slogan of the German military, emblazoned on their uniform belt buckles, was \u201cGot Mit Uns\u201d (God is With Us). Hitler\u2019s speeches are littered with religious invocations that were designed (successfully) to leave his religious followers dewy-eyed and damp with patriotic religious lust.<\/p>\n

All religious fundamentalists are authoritarian. The ones that state that they have no formal religious hierarchy but instead answer directly to God tend to be more socially dangerous than the regular kind, because Bishops and Imans are human can can be swayed by social needs, but God is an obliging doormat who is willing to lend his name to any cause espoused by his followers, no matter how horrible.<\/p>\n

The religions that are \u201cnon-authoritarian\u201d often are the worst of all, since while they won\u2019t officially interpret God\u2019s will for their followers, they carefully \u201cassist\u201d followers in \u201cunderstanding\u201d the holy writings. And literalistic religions are the worst of all. You have to be an intellectual train wreck to be a bible literalist, with its contradictions, absurdities, and talking snakes, but utter belief is demanded, and as Voltaire acidly observed, \u201cThose who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.\u201d Got Mit Uns.<\/p>\n

Theocracies are all authoritarian in nature, as political entities purporting to represent the will of God must be. Dissent is Blasphemy. There hasn\u2019t been a theocracy in the history of the world that wasn\u2019t an utterly shite place to live, and pay attention, you Dominionists: A \u201cHandsmaid\u2019s Tale\u201d type of America would include most of you as Jesus fodder. You wouldn\u2019t like it, no matter how god-struck you are right now.<\/p>\n

Fascism itself is best defined as government by corporation. Mussolini, one of the original fascists, said that you might as well call fascists corporatists, because that was where they wanted the power to lie.<\/p>\n

Anyone who thinks businessmen should be running the country is a fascist. Authoritarian corporatists have spent billions over the years trying to dress it up as conservatism or libertarianism, but it is, at its very foundation, fascist. When was the last time a \u201cconservative\u201d in America sided with American workers against their bosses? American consumers against corporations? Environmental or safety concerns ahead of corporate convenience?<\/p>\n

People who look to business leaders expecting to find John Galt are far more likely to find, at best, the dodgey characters flogging questionable junk on late-night TV, and at worst Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Libertarians are great at assuming that all public servants are endlessly corrupt and inept, whereas businessmen are paragons of integrity and competence because Invisible Hand, but the fact is business is simply better at hiding stupidity and criminality. The Mueller probe will be shining a light on the vast corruption and cover up of the vaunted private sector, much of it revolving around the poster children for gangsterism, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Both of whom, of course, are fascists.<\/p>\n

Fascism has a bad name, and not just because people conflate it with Hitler (who, ironically, wasn\u2019t much of a fascist). Like theocracies and for similar reasons, it tends to be authoritarian, because its goals and objectives not only don\u2019t dovetail with the public good, but often are diametrically opposed.<\/p>\n

So there\u2019s two flavors of fascism: the one\u2019s that hide their corruption behind God, and the ones who hide it behind lawyers. One purports to worship God, the other Economic Growth, but in the end, both the means and the ends conjoin, and so it\u2019s not surprising to see Donald Trump appealing to Evangelicals: both worship the same thing: Power. And they will stop at nothing to do it.<\/p>\n

Americans are glassy-eyed and supine from decades of propaganda, and despite all evidence, believe \u201cbusiness leaders\u201d have their best interest at heart and should be running the country.<\/p>\n

As Trump and his cartel implode, hopefully that delusion will die with them.<\/p>\n

But don\u2019t hold your breath.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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