We basically have two big packages to choose from, and to choose one means to support not just one or more issues in the package, but to support all of them. We are supposed to believe that the end of jim crow and abortion are inextricably tied together, that the former caused the latter, and that anyone who supports the former must support the latter. Thus we have people who criticize "McCarthyism" practicing it, "anarchists" supporting state force, and black fundamentalists and moslems (supposedly) supporting transgressive sexual madness. I admit that I don't understand it. I don't know if black fundamentalists are simply kept ignorant of what they're allied with or whether they talk themselves into supporting it to ease their cognitive dissonance.
As I have so often pointed out, the Left is like the heels'dressing room in old timey kayfabe rasslin'. Logically they should be at each other's throats but they never are. And until we do something to dissolve the phony connection that connects every left wing position to every other left wing position we will continue to slide into the trash can (unless HaShem sends Mashiach).
It is sad but true that for many many years American conservatism was identified with jim crow. I'm not making this up and I don't enjoy it; one can look into any number of conservative heroes of the twentieth century to see they screamed about desegregation being a plot of "anti-christ" and such. This was never necessary. Blacks have been here over four hundred years; they are one of the oldest American population groups. They were never foreigners; they were originally Fundamentalist Protestants (I don't suppose anyone remembers that it wasn't too long ago that blacks were portrayed as simple-minded religious bumpkins, like rednecks are now). I don't doubt that part of this is a most just punishment for us, but that doesn't make our adversaries right or mean they aren't evil people.
It's hard to believe, but once upon a time conservatives weren't so conforming. Curtis LeMay and Hamilton Fish (the latter supposedly deeply anti-Semitic, though in the early 20s he sponsored a Congressional endorsement of the Balfour Declaration) were not racists at all, and even helped to integrate the US armed forces. "White supremacy" has never, so far as I know, been a right wing Catholic thing (though right wing Catholics have opted rather to offer a right wing alternative to American jim crow by remaining completely silent on that issue while screaming to high Heaven about how how "evil" the Jews are. Southern segregationists (in addition to being New Dealers) weren't World War II non-interventionists. And while I'm no fan of Murray Rothbard and his "palaeolibertarian" comrades (for obvious reasons), I was most surprised to find he was not merely an anti-Israel hypocrite, but also opposed Syngman Rhee, Ngo dien Dimh, and Chiang Kai-shek (calling the latter a "fascist"), who were traditionally supported by American right wing "Jeffersonians" and anti-Zionists. Consistency? Very rare.
Would we be in this mess today if Fundamentalist Protestant churches had de-segregated long ago? I don't think so, but I don't see that happening now. In Israel Charedim and moslems actually cooperate to oppose pervert parades. They still disagree about most things, but on that one issue they are allies. Is it too late to de-knot the two "packages" that make up Left and Right in America?
Here is just a thought (and please don't call me pro-moslem because I am not). Suppose the next time moslems in America (supported by secularist liberals) call for anti-blasphemy laws, before transforming into Voltaire, why can't conservative chrstians open negotiations with them to see if they could not benefit in some way themselves? I doubt anything comes of it (at least at first), but just the very fact that conservative chrstians are talking with theocratic moslems instead of morphing into eighteenth century "enlightenment" liberals might just stir things up a bit. It should at least shake the liberals up!
That's the real problem. Things need shaking up but no one (except for Jew-haters, unfortunately) want to shake it up. The glue that holds all these various issues into two gigantic mudballs must be desolved, or at least threatened. When will we do that?
Already here on FR we're seeing palaeoconservatives (of all people!) screaming about the "far right" in Ukraine. Who would have ever thought our palaeos would ever be shouting about "the far right?" If this can happen, why not other positive developments as well?
Confession: I personally believe only the intervention of G-d A-mighty will end the hell we're descending into, and I'm hoping that all this current ideological confusion is His work to destroy the evil ones utterly. Ultimately, we are all in the Hands of Heaven.
Just some thoughts.
Though no doubt there has been slavery, segregation, and racism in America’s past, it’s margin of error stuff now, there’s so little true racism left. It’s why liberals are constantly caught staging fake hate crimes.
Based on Tuskegee and Big Pharma experiments in African countries and even America, blacks as a percentage have shown so much more wisdom on the “vaccine’ than gullible suburban whites. They know Big Pharma and cold bureaucrats are using Americans and others as guinea pigs.
And yet a recent poll has Biden at 64% among blacks. It’s historically low and yet also somewhat depressing. This guy has had one of the most disastrous first years in our nation’s history and yet he maintains support from 2 in 3 (and probably much more at voting time) blacks? Why do they, including most of their people of faith, support a Party which destroys their community? Literally destroying them through abortion and policies which end in the constant murders in urban centers.
From my work life to my church life, I’ve come across quite an eclectic group of people. From factory foul mouth pagans to people seeking high holiness. And yet one of their common denominators is how tired they get of being portrayed as racists. Their constant refrain: Liberals are the ones who destroy the black community.
In regards to Muslims and anti-blasphemy laws. I’m a Catholic and I don’t like attacks on people of faith. Yet I’ll take the blows and continue to defend free speech. Censorship seems to only be applied to people on the right. Don’t wanna live in Europe or Canada or the Middle East or Russia where Putin is now threatening prison time for “fake news”. This forum would be one of the first ones to go under Muslim anti-blasphemy laws or leftist hate speech laws. We’d hear knocks on our doors if we give in on speech. I don’t mind being allied with classic liberals on speech issues.
The ball is in Cardinal Cupich’s court on Pfleger and people are watching. If he doesn’t correct him, orthodox Catholics should raise a ruckus on his hypocrisy.