False equivalents, false comparisons, false data, false reality.
Welcome to America -- Republican style.
It appears to make little to no difference what prevailing interpretations of scientifically gathered data, empirically based historical studies or previous interpretations of religious mythos would have upon the current mutation of right wing political thought and deed.
And perhaps, once again judging from their words and deeds, they have taken a far bolder, infinitely more esoteric leap than even most liberal thinkers, in realizing that, in spite of their agit-prop, quasi-conservative maxims to the contrary, there actually is no god, no possible good government and no need for moral boundaries of any kind.
Talk about progressive.
For, if they truly held the obverse of those beliefs, they would never advance the positions they do in the way that they do. They would engage in civil discourse instead of the grotesque displays of purposefully untethered rage; they would seek parity among the disenfranchised instead of siding with the forces of greed; they wouldn't flout normal people's fears of mortality and poverty and failure, exploiting weakness instead of seizing the opportunity that modern technology and respect for history affords them.
Oh, and they wouldn't step on heads.
Instead, they spread false premises, disseminate false information, create false enemies, pray to false idols.
If the Bible is anything, it is prescient on the subject of false prophets and on the consequences of embracing greed instead of one another.
Maybe they can't help what they are. Maybe after realizing how the world, science and human history regards them and their backward views they are declaring a kind of war on Truth.
Armed with technical know-how which empowers even the least efficient of seditionists along with unflinching faith in their dependably obsolete icons, they have highjacked the socio-political infrastructure which supported their domination at the hands of their declared enemies -- highjacked reality -- and re-imagined the past to justify their present madness and are indeed attempting to make off with the future.
Having literally bought almost all the mechanisms of democracy in order to facilitate this drive to recreate reality, having the media trumpeting their misinformation, having the highest court in the land rewrite The Constitution in its image, False is poised to become Real.
The truth, Oscar Wilde wrote, is rarely pure and never simple. In the world the Republicans would build, their truth would be just that.
And true to form, it would be false.
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Indeed. For all the blatant displays of "piety" and "patriotism" - the actual policies championed by today's Right Wing not only contradict treating others as you would like to be treated, and helping the poorest among us - as well as other examples of bleeding heart nonsense - but also betray complete contempt for actual Democracy and fellow Americans - not that they consider us "real" Americans.
ANY political party is full of it... case in point. Democrats are up in arms over alleged Republican money sources... while Google execs throw a $30k a plate fundraiser for Democrats... interestingly enough within a week an investigation to Google's invasion of privacy (using its street-view cars to determine local residents through their wifi connections and ISPs as they drive by their houses) gets dropped.
And what about Free healthcare???? THats a lie in fact Reform of healthcare was a lie...
no raising taxes on the middle class... Dems are so far letting the taxbreaks run out... then their is shifting taxes on goods etc that way more heavily on the middle class... see healthcare above, more expensive to pay for buying special interest votes.
You conservatards can NEVER, EVER accept any responsibility for your hate-filled, male, pale, stale crap.
It's always "the other side did it, too."
Whiny pee-pee pants babies. Wing nutz have that pathetic, immature act honed to a tee.
If whining, denying, lying, playing the victim, blaming the left, and being easily led and clueless were Olympic sports, you tools would get straight "10's" across the board.
Brain bleach.
Companies always have our best interest at heart [insert heavy sarcasm].
And I find the Oscar Wilde quote very apt and appropriate. The trolls, of course can't get over their own egos for the most part. I'm surprised none of them noticed how Weber took pains to give "previous interpretations of religious mythos" their due. With regard to the Wilde reference, some dunderheads might remark, "Oscar Wilde...wasn't he? You know..." They and all the 'falsies' Weber speaks of would have everyone and anyone who doesn't toe their line thrown in Reading Gaol, figuratively and perhaps literally.
It mattered not in their lack of conscience the greed infused moneychangers immediately stepped in to fund the roots of their grass. Because their original message was indeed so bigoted, it mattered not they were co-opted by status quo hypocrisy and provided with a script for falsely claiming wrongs. Because someone, anyone, of even false authority joined their mean little world of hateful signs and patted their backs for holding them high, they just knew the vengeful god that bombed them for allowing 'the gay', and had taken angelic whiteness from their leader's house, would restore 'right'ness to their world.
It matters little the lies they tell or the heads they stomp, for it's their god's will and not their own, and they just somehow KNOW they're forgiven. And, oh yes, the also just KNOW everyone else are the ignorant ones.
Thank you once again, Steven, for your conscience.
Ok, we have established, for the intellectually-incurious, and the ideologically-blinded believers in perpetual equivalencies which amount to tagyerit and nothing more, the complete and total refudiationation of this liberal's article.
No need to post, foox fans and baggers. Your work is done!
Feels good, doesn't it.