I'm reading A.R.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
“The white supremacist arrived, and he couldn’t have been a bigger cartoon farce: Donald Biggestbest Trump himself, rodeo clown of all rodeo clowns, a man you wouldn’t trust to feed a soft-serve ice cream cone to a stray badger, much less lead a country. And the very fine people—my very fine people—went for him."
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"I watched some of them posture at opposing him—an opposition that mostly focused on their discomfort with his grotesque tone and crude behavior—but that was in the early days, when they still thought, as I did, that the idea of such a man actually becoming president was preposterous."
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"As soon as it became clear that he was indeed to be the Republican standard-bearer, I watched them each, one by one, with only a handful of exceptions, drop their diaphanous hankies of performative opposition and stand before all of us exposed, proudly wearing their new emperor’s clothes, willingly bowing before their gobby golden calf. Willingly? Enthusiastically."
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"It was a growing enthusiasm. It was almost as if people who had been waiting for permission to embrace authoritarianism had finally been given it. I watched as the white evangelical Christian church in the United States—the tradition that raised me—"
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"revealed itself as the enthusiastic, sustaining, energetic, rapturous force powering a successful, openly white supremacist, authoritarian, fascist political movement, led by a pig of a man, an incurious narcissistic fool without a single redeeming quality."
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
"And I watched, as those within that religious tradition who were uncomfortable with this reality set themselves to the work of keeping comfortable relationship with those who had embraced fascism, even if it came at the expense of their relationship with those who were menaced by it” (pp. 18-9).
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Tawtovo (ܬܘܬܒܐ)replied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy
This was the betrayal that hurt me worst. Not even the 81% who voted for Trump, but the 18% who insisted that those 81% must be kept comfortable and not challenged, and that the 1% like me who objected were the trouble-makers here. So I left, at first reluctantly, but now shaking the dust off my feet. -
Stella Creplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy Fascinating thread - thanks
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Tawtovo (ܬܘܬܒܐ) last edited by
@tawtovo Yes! And those 81% in evangelical circles were matched by some 60% in white Catholic and Mormon circles, and the same thing happened there: the rest just went along, refused to rock the boat. Rabid, hateful right-wing Christianity would never have taken control of US Christianity if so many people who know better had not stood by in total silence.
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Stella C last edited by
@SCampbell You're welcome. I find him an illuminating thinker and writer.
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Eveline Sulmanreplied to William Lindsey :toad: last edited by
@wdlindsy thanks for the resumé. I think I have to read this, although I will be sad and angry reading it
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William Lindsey :toad:replied to Eveline Sulman last edited by
@EvelineSulman It really is outstanding. I find his work excellent.