----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Johanning" <jjohanning at igc.org>
And in the larger sense, it is the basic mythic thrust of any reactionary movement. If a progressive movement can't come up with an effective therapy against this reactionary bacterial strain -- and the U.S. Left has been struggling to find one since the backlash of the '60s -- it's in bad trouble, because it is a very potent mental infection. It's high time we stopped pretending that this "moral values" stuff is too far beneath our dignity for us to deal with, and started dealing with it.
Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org
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Except by your own admission it's not "moral values" it's just blatant authoritarianism backed by utterly flimsy arguments/justifications to which utter skepticism about the very vocabularies they deploy for describing their morals is an entirely apt strategy. The very notion of large numbers of Xtians supporting the ongoing mass slaughter of innocent people thousands of miles away as competent moral agents boggles the mind. Thank Dog there are lots of Xtians that are vehemently opposed to what the Emperor is doing. To riff on the earlier historical analogy to 1861-1877 yada yada, it feels like 1618 to me.