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Who Else Thinks It Is Ironic That Religious Conservatives in America and its Sphere of Influence Root So Much of Their Ideology in Conspiracy Theories about "The Left" Yet So Much of Their Power and Influence Comes From an Actually-Existing Conspiracy
The "ruling class" of the United States (the majority of its big capitalists and the bureaucracies they control through government and civil society, as well as the counterpart to this in the realm of local politics and "small business") as well as the "common people" (the working class/lower middle class, the subjects of "consumerism" or "consumer society", as well as the severely impoverished, homeless, etc) have always been deeply religious, so I am not saying that without the conspiracy I identify in this posts, there would be no influence of religious, specifically Christian, conservatism in America. What I am saying is that it is a matter of record that one portion of the ruling class and a supporter base it has cultivated in the middle and lower classes have constructed, as the result of a long period of multiple organized, prolonged campaigns against secularism and anything related to it, a *de facto* theocracy within American "democracy", which has become a parody of its former self thanks to corruption in both parties and a more secular wing of the ruling class that, despite its irreligiosity, does not have a *financial* incentive to discipline its theocratic kin in any meaningful way and, in some instances, actually has an incentive not to.
Jeff Sharlett famously wrote about this in his 2007 book *The Family* (which now has a Netflix series). Kevin Philips, who was once a pro-Nixon bureaucrat for the GOP, wrote about this same phenomena in his book *American Theocracy*, but, unlike Sharlett, emphasized how the coalition of ultraconservative Christianity that has turned the Republican Party into its "vanguard" is attached at the hip with the economic interests of Big Oil and the military-industrial complex. In both books, it is pointed out repeatedly how moderating voices in "mainline" denominations have been attacked as viciously as atheists or "secular humanist" liberals by the Christian Fascists. Indeed, mainline denominations in America are on the decline while groups that have never necessarily been "fringe" but were much smaller in influence have expanded exponentially since the years of Reagan, Bush Sr. and Bush Jr. Today, there are developments like the New Apostolic Reformation, which technically have their origin in Christian Reconstruction and right-wing Pentecostalism but take a non-denominational approach. In other words, it doesn't matter too much to them whether one is Catholic, Evangelical, Pentecostal, Methodist, Southern Baptist or even Mormon. They simply want to create a Christo-Fascist blob that will enforce a theocratic agenda and diminish alternatives to this paradigm in either the secular realm or in more "moderate" Christian denoms.
One could even argue that this conspiracy, which is administered by groups such as the Council for National Policy (which embraced religious conservatives as well as supposedly "moderate" neoconservatives and their critics in the "fringes" of the far-right, such as the Constitution Party and groups that are one degree of separation away from various Klan factions) and the Heritage Foundation (which drafted Project 2025) has also drawn support from non-Christian theocrats who, while being outside of Christianity and thus not technically "Christo Fascist", still see enough of a similarity in the agenda of their reactionary sects and that of the Christo-Fascist coalition to support it. This includes groups of Ultra-Orthodox Jews, such as Chabad-Lubavitch (do not fall for the propaganda that says they are "moderate" when compared to other Orthodox sects) or religious ultra-Zionists or, to a lesser but still notable degree, the type of "radical Islam" that Christo-Fascists otherwise hysterically rail against the way they did Communism during the Cold War. Probably the most notorious example of the latter trend is the deep relationship between the GOP in its long Christo-Fascist era and the Saudi, Emirati, and Qatari oil monarchs, who parallel the Big Oil Christo-Fascists nearly to the last detail, with many of them now even supporting not just Israel, but specifically Likud's vision for it.
We're dealing not just with an *ideological* or intellectual struggle, but a material and financial/military one. These people have power and have had it for decades, that's why they have to go to such farcical extremes as QAnon to paint themselves as victims of evil pinko liberals who want to destroy Christian, capitalist civilization. Indeed, the supposed "pinkos" are often from their same class and, while holding less radical beliefs, can mostly shrug and look the other way because actually combatting this menace to democracy would require a real change in the power structures and financial and military oligarchies that is both too much trouble for them and, in instances where they are cynically working with the Christo-Fascists on some private business or military project while denouncing them in public over cultural differences with them, it would actually disrupt business.
We need a truly revolutionary secularist movement to combat this and we need to push back any time any religious conservative, but especially Christo-Fascists (who even liberal mass media refer to as "Christian Nationalists" to avoid calling them what they actually are) who try to portray themselves as victims of "conspiracy." It's the common American and the marginalized and exploited of the world who are the victims of a conspiracy of Christo-Fascist imperialism
#religion
The "ruling class" of the United States (the majority of its big capitalists and the bureaucracies they control through government and civil society, as well as the counterpart to this in the realm of local politics and "small business") as well as the "common people" (the working class/lower middle class, the subjects of "consumerism" or "consumer society", as well as the severely impoverished, homeless, etc) have always been deeply religious, so I am not saying that without the conspiracy I identify in this posts, there would be no influence of religious, specifically Christian, conservatism in America. What I am saying is that it is a matter of record that one portion of the ruling class and a supporter base it has cultivated in the middle and lower classes have constructed, as the result of a long period of multiple organized, prolonged campaigns against secularism and anything related to it, a *de facto* theocracy within American "democracy", which has become a parody of its former self thanks to corruption in both parties and a more secular wing of the ruling class that, despite its irreligiosity, does not have a *financial* incentive to discipline its theocratic kin in any meaningful way and, in some instances, actually has an incentive not to.
Jeff Sharlett famously wrote about this in his 2007 book *The Family* (which now has a Netflix series). Kevin Philips, who was once a pro-Nixon bureaucrat for the GOP, wrote about this same phenomena in his book *American Theocracy*, but, unlike Sharlett, emphasized how the coalition of ultraconservative Christianity that has turned the Republican Party into its "vanguard" is attached at the hip with the economic interests of Big Oil and the military-industrial complex. In both books, it is pointed out repeatedly how moderating voices in "mainline" denominations have been attacked as viciously as atheists or "secular humanist" liberals by the Christian Fascists. Indeed, mainline denominations in America are on the decline while groups that have never necessarily been "fringe" but were much smaller in influence have expanded exponentially since the years of Reagan, Bush Sr. and Bush Jr. Today, there are developments like the New Apostolic Reformation, which technically have their origin in Christian Reconstruction and right-wing Pentecostalism but take a non-denominational approach. In other words, it doesn't matter too much to them whether one is Catholic, Evangelical, Pentecostal, Methodist, Southern Baptist or even Mormon. They simply want to create a Christo-Fascist blob that will enforce a theocratic agenda and diminish alternatives to this paradigm in either the secular realm or in more "moderate" Christian denoms.
One could even argue that this conspiracy, which is administered by groups such as the Council for National Policy (which embraced religious conservatives as well as supposedly "moderate" neoconservatives and their critics in the "fringes" of the far-right, such as the Constitution Party and groups that are one degree of separation away from various Klan factions) and the Heritage Foundation (which drafted Project 2025) has also drawn support from non-Christian theocrats who, while being outside of Christianity and thus not technically "Christo Fascist", still see enough of a similarity in the agenda of their reactionary sects and that of the Christo-Fascist coalition to support it. This includes groups of Ultra-Orthodox Jews, such as Chabad-Lubavitch (do not fall for the propaganda that says they are "moderate" when compared to other Orthodox sects) or religious ultra-Zionists or, to a lesser but still notable degree, the type of "radical Islam" that Christo-Fascists otherwise hysterically rail against the way they did Communism during the Cold War. Probably the most notorious example of the latter trend is the deep relationship between the GOP in its long Christo-Fascist era and the Saudi, Emirati, and Qatari oil monarchs, who parallel the Big Oil Christo-Fascists nearly to the last detail, with many of them now even supporting not just Israel, but specifically Likud's vision for it.
We're dealing not just with an *ideological* or intellectual struggle, but a material and financial/military one. These people have power and have had it for decades, that's why they have to go to such farcical extremes as QAnon to paint themselves as victims of evil pinko liberals who want to destroy Christian, capitalist civilization. Indeed, the supposed "pinkos" are often from their same class and, while holding less radical beliefs, can mostly shrug and look the other way because actually combatting this menace to democracy would require a real change in the power structures and financial and military oligarchies that is both too much trouble for them and, in instances where they are cynically working with the Christo-Fascists on some private business or military project while denouncing them in public over cultural differences with them, it would actually disrupt business.
We need a truly revolutionary secularist movement to combat this and we need to push back any time any religious conservative, but especially Christo-Fascists (who even liberal mass media refer to as "Christian Nationalists" to avoid calling them what they actually are) who try to portray themselves as victims of "conspiracy." It's the common American and the marginalized and exploited of the world who are the victims of a conspiracy of Christo-Fascist imperialism
#religion
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