Please point me to the work Democrats are doing now to stop this advance of white, Christian nationalism

[lees1975]

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/05/please-point-me-to-work-democrats-are.html

The English rock band "Tears for Fears" recorded a song released in 1985 called Everybody Wants to Rule the World, which reflects political themes of the time. It was mostly considered a "cold war anthem," that's the best description of it, including that of its authors, who disagreed at one point over whether the line should be "Everyone wants to go to war." There are lines in the song which talk about turning one's back on mother nature, about the bombs come tumbling down, and the theme can be seen in the original music video that accompanies the song.

The use of the Christian religion to gain political power is a theme that runs for almost as long as the Christian church has existed. Christian nationalism emerged with Constantine, after two centuries of persecution of Christianity at the hands of the Roman emperors produced exactly the opposite result intended, and led to the conversion of something like half the Empire. Constantine recognized that his ability to ascend to the emperorship, and maintain military control would depend on the support of the Christian church. His successor, Theodosius I, who was Christian, saw a pathway to political success by making Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire, turning it into a Christian nationalist state.

Though there is nothing at all anywhere in the writings of the apostles that survived to become the canon of the New Testament to indicate that anything Jesus did, or taught, led to any indication that he intended for those who converted to Christianity to rule the world politically, and in fact, the values he emphasized and prioritized into Christian practice indicate that exactly the opposite is true, Christian nationalism, with a heavy dose of racism tilted toward light skinned Europeans, grew into the most influential heresy in the history of Christianity

What we are seeing, with Project 2025, is a takeover of the federal government by the Heritage Foundation, a group of pseudo-Christians who are once again aiming at the use of government and political power to acheive ends they claim are "Christian," and in line with "the will of God" ostensibly to prepare the world for the return of Christ, but in reality, to acumulate for themselves enough wealth to have the power to literally rule the world. Someone has to manage all of that wealth and power while waiting on Jesus to descend from the clouds, right?

So while 60% of the American people accurately observe the subversion of the Constitution and American democracy for exactly what it is, the only praise for Trump's first hundred days of his second term is coming from a minority of MAGA leaders and influencers, and the media outlets they control. Even the mainstream media, heavily biased in his favor, is not obseving anything but disaster from the illegal acts, aimless executive orders and ramblings of a demented President who is not completely under the control of his handlers.

They [the Heritage Foundation leadership] are bragging that about 41% (how they've arrived at that figure is hard to determine, and hard to swallow) of the Christian nationalist Project 2025 has been implemented so far. What steps do we think they are willing to take to make sure Congress doesn't get in the way of implementing all of it, or abolishing it if the Democrats gain control in 2026?

Please go ahead and correct me if I am wrong, I'll be glad to be wrong about not seeing any Democrats point this out, be concerned about it or actively engaged in doing something about it. We are here now because Democrats weren't bold to take some risks to stop it from happening, and use the power they had. Why should we think anyone is doing anything about it now?

[lees1975]

1. Including keeping an eye on their stealing of the 2026 election.

Who, on the Democratic side of this, is keeping an eye on what's going on while the Trump administration is either tying up law firms who have taken sides against them in the past, or is infiltrating the ranks of election workers to make sure vote counts always go their way?

[FirstLight]

2. dude, and the clip I saw of the revival prayers/singing at the WH this week!

It's getting really narly with that crew and nobody's watching... If TFG ever kicked the bucket, I'd be terrified of Vance in there because ALL his "loyalty" such that it is, is owed to the Heritage People... we're screwn.

I'm not comforted by any Dem actions right now, I need some actual show of strength and cohesion... all we have os a bunch of chickens without heads running amok