Monday, May 24, 2004

The thing that scares me the most about all of the legislative gay-bashing that's going on is that otherwise well meaning folks are going to be caught up in a cycle of hate. Everyone always asks the question about how fascism survives, and it survives by incrementally capitalizing on people's worst fears and prejudice, until the are minimally ensconsed in or supporting a truly oppressive regime. In the present Republican face of fascism, economic policy is inextricably linked to ideology, each dependency building on the other. I just wish it would go away, that there would be a wise parent to make Christians stop waging war, military or cultural, in the name of Jesus. Unfortunately, the act of calling folks out on their slow descent into Docker-volk, which makes them even trickier to deal with than jack booted brown shirts - they are mobilized around and by a much more insidious and pervasive mass media network - would probably do nothing more than provoke anger, not self-reflection. Heck, they might not own up to it completely, but they may not think that Hitler was on the wrong path - especially since, as Mel pointed out, the Jews did kill our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Wonder if it would make any difference at all to put postcards with 1 John 4:7-8 on the windshields of all our lost brethren the Sunday before the vote. I called back the Republican National Congressional Committee tonight, who had graciously invited me to be a member of the small business advisory council in a clever fundraising ploy, to tell them to that I would have to decline the invitation since I think Republicans represent an emergent fascism. 5:56:09 PM