It's All About the 1950s

In the end, when it comes to the religious right's support of Trump, it is all about the insane desire to return to the 1950s, an era when white males ruled supreme and unchallenged, and where women and minorities--especially women--knew their "place."  It was a time of greed by white males to hoard resources at the expense of everybody else.

This is what the opposition to abortion is all about, to return to the 1950s.  To denigrate half the human race to glamorize the fetus is par for the course.  Motherhood and marriage were all that defined women during the fifties and long before and still defines them in the eyes of the religious right.  They are simply things for men, the real humans,  to use.

The 1950s, despite the great cars, the great music, the classic television programs, the classic movies, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Little Richard, and Elvis, was not all that for most people.  It was an era of racial segregation still being entrenched despite USSC decisions ordering desegregation, it was an era where women were fired following WW II from male-dominated jobs and forced into the house whether they wanted to or not.  It was an era where an insane amount of children per family were born and when "homemaking" was made into a "career" for women; however, it was absolutely not an option for men, which tells a person everything they need to know about the lionization of women in the home.  Tax laws favoring married people came into the fore, and it goes on and on.  Yes, it was prosperous economically, but it was at the expense of millions of people cut out of the American Dream.

NEVER underestimate the hold this era has and continues to have on the American public.

This severe constriction of life paths back then led directly to the upheaval of the 1960s.  This was the biggest fallout from the era.

The irony is supporting the far right or "libertarianism" supports the further destruction of the standard of living in the United States.  Trump has done nothing to reverse the trend.  Maybe the pandemic will show the folly of believing in neoliberalism/Friedmanism, but I doubt it.  The politicians in both parties have been in love with the discredited and debunked nonsense for years.

The "Religious Right" is on the Ropes

Thanks to Trump's impeachment by the House of Representatives, these misnamed "evangelicals" are all in a tizzy over the Christianity Today editorial calling for Trump's removal, including and especially Franklin Graham, who blathered his dad voted for Trump (although years ago he had been a registered Democrat) as if that has anything to do with anything since 2016.  The editorial, while not accurate about Bill Clinton, really stuck it to these charlatans who have perverted Christianity and given it a black eye, especially to the idiot millennials who now have embraced all kinds of bullshit in response.  I have written about the millennials' vulnerability to cults like animal "rights," veganism/vegetarianism, the "New Atheism," postmodernism, queer theory, transgenderism, New Age, and all kinds of other bullshit.  Their stupidity is only surpassed by their arrogance, but they have left conventional religion in droves, if they were ever there in the first place.

Franklin Graham

Graham's remarks can be found here among many places.

These people are not "evangelicals" but actually dominionists.  The religious right started hijacking the "evangelical" label around 1980 because it sounded better than being called fundamentalists or even pentacostals or charismatics.  However, "evangelical" denominations also include Baptists, Lutherans, Methodists, Presbyterians, all mainline denominations (though there are some dominionists in these groups) as well as the Assemblies of God, Church of the Nazarene, and other conservative groups.  Most of these dominionists are independent of any denomination and look like cults from the view of outsiders.  The media followed suit with the mislabeling, so now "evangelicals" are practically synonymous with the religious right, Christian reconstructionism,  or dominionism.  No matter what they are called these people think they have to force society into their twisted interpretation of the Bible so Jesus can return or whatever.  I am not a theologian.  I have, however, followed the televangelists since the late 1960s with the likes of Oral Roberts, Billy Graham, Garner Ted and Herbert W. Armstrong, Rex Humbard, and many, many others.  It wasn't until 1980 when they got into the political act with their support of Ronald Reagan.  However, that support is nothing like it is now.  Now the religious right has gone completely off the rails to full-scale fascism and insanity.  They are downright dangerous, with some of the fringe types  regularly appearing in programs like the Jim Bakker Show or are featured on the RWW Blog YouTube channel all but explicitly calling for the assault and murder of public officials who are Democrats or Republicans critical of Trump's corruption.   Free speech does not mean inciting people to commit civil unrest while cloaking it as "prophecy."

Yes, "prophecy."  According to these whack jobs, the way they get around the hypocrisy label of supporting an insane, irreligious, profane, cheating, corrupt, criminal president is they give him the label of a "modern day Cyrus" and claim he is "prophesied" in the Bible and other such nonsense.  They will not admit to the public they HATE our system of government and want to replace it with fascism complete with the arrest and murder of "enemies."    Instead, they will say all of this is in the Bible.   They will blather about Trump's supposed support of Israel as a reason he HAS to remain in office, but these people do NOT care about Israel or the Jewish people--they are just pawns in the Armageddon scenario, nothing more, and nothing less.  These people are desperate for Trump to remain in office so he can continue to appoint federal judges to whittle away abortion rights, women's rights, and roll all these and other rights to bring back the halcyon days of the 1950s, when men were men, women knew "their place," gays and lesbians remained in the closet, and blacks and other minorities were not a threat to the almighty white male dudes in jobs, education, politics, and life in general.

That era isn't coming back.  However, this country is indeed on the ropes, or, to use the current name of this blog, on the edge,  thanks to the support of fascism by those who call themselves "evangelicals."  They do pose a threat to this country.

In related news,  the Christian Post's editor quit in response to this publication's rebuttal of the Christianity Today editorial.