The political-economic-religious-social “Right ‘ declared war on American society decades ago. They have largely won, America 2020 is their creation: chaos, prejudice, violence, people suffering, an incompetent federal government, reactionary courts violating 200 years’ precedents – all this before COVID-19!!! America doesn’t work for average people because that was the goal [somebody has to suffer if the Right succeeds in rewriting the rules]. Following are SOME of the perp’s own words.
-Paul Weyrich, far-right activist: “..it is war. It is a war of ideology..a war of ideas..a war of our way of life..to be fought with the same intensity and dedication as a shooting war..” [1981]
-Pat Buchanan, 1992 Republican Convention speech: “There is a religious war going on in this country. It is a cultural war..for the soul of America.”
-Warren Buffett, billionaire investor: “There’s class warfare, all right, but its my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”
-Jay Grimstead, president “Citizens on Revival:” “God has given us the Bible as a rule book for all society – Christian and nonChristian alike.”
-Robert Simonds, president “Citizens for Excellence in Education” and “National Association of Christian Educators:” “Our job is t5o evangelize..schools are the battleground. The goal of 500,000 born-again Christians working inside the ‘system’ is to bring public education back under..control of the Christian community..” [1991]
-future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell’s “Memorandum” [8/23/71]: “The American economic system is under broad attack..The most disquieting voices..come from perfectly respectable elements.. The threat to the economic system..is also a threat to individual freedom.” Powell urged corporate investment in legal scholars..”constant surveillance” of TV networks for “criticism of the enterprise system,” building corporate political power “used aggressively,’ new focus on courts, “the most important instrument for social, economic, political change.”
-“The Theocons” – Richard J. Neuhaus: far more than evangelicals, “Catholics are uniquely posed.. to transform the late 20th century into “the Catholic moment.”.. time had come for the church to assume “its rightful role in the culture-forming task of constructing a religiously informed public philosophy for the American experiment in ordered liberty.” Neuhaus and colleagues felt the church provided a unifying agenda to transform the U.S. into a homogeneously traditionalist Catholic-Christian nation. If necessary, by force.
-Clayton Coppin: “Only governments and..courts remained as sources of authority, if enacted Charles’s ‘libertarian policies would eliminate these.’.. He was driven..to smash the one thing left in the world that could discipline him; the government.”
-Charles Koch, l978 ‘Libertarian Review’ article: “our movement must destroy the prevalent statist paradigm.”
-Randall Terry: “Our goal is a Christian Nation. We have a biblical duty..are called by God to conquer this country. We don’t want equal time.. don’t want pluralism.”
-Betsy DeVos [1997]: “Soft money was..hard-earned..dollars..Big Brother has yet to control..I have decided to stop taking offense at the suggestion we are buying influence. Now I simply concede the point..We do expect something in return..”
-Federalist cofounder Steven Calabresi: “I think it {Federalist Society} helps keep them [right-wing Supreme Court Justices] in check..the check of criticism by law schools, journalists, and conservative think tanks like the Federalist Society, criticism from those quarters is something they notice..Scalia actually cares a lot about being consistent..I think..other conservative and libertarian judges and public officials notice things like that..it can have an effect on them.”
-Peter Wehner [l/10/20], Bush II speechwriter on today’s Republican Party: “..there existed in the Republican Party repulsive elements, people..attracted to racial and ethnic politics..moved by resentment and intolerance..” These “party guests” – extremists and racists – have taken over the party.
-Republican Representative Fred Heineman: ‘When I see someone who is making anywhere from $300,000 to $750,000 a tear, that’s middle class.” [10/25/96]
-Robert Jeffress, pastor, First Baptist Church of Dallas: has called gays “miserable,’ filthy,’ and “degrading.” “What a lot of people miss is, America is not a church where everyone should be welcome regardless of race and background.”
-Jeffress: “Islam is wrong. Is is a heresy from the pit of hell. Judaism – you can’t be saved being a Jew.” In a 2011 sermon, he called the Catholic Church a corrupt version of Christianity that sprang from from ancient Babylonian cults.
-Grover Norquist, far right ideological enforcer: “My ideal citizen is the self-employed, home-schooling, IRA-owning guy with a concealed-carry permit. Because that person doesn’t need the goddam government for anything.”
-Evangelist Franklin Graham: “I want to see one child in every public school in America who is trained as a witness for Jesus Christ. Let’s don’t surrender public schools. Let’s take them back..we’re going to have witnesses – every class, a young kid who can stand up and share his faith in Jesus Christ..When a child completes the program, we’ll send them a card..saying they’re certified evangelist with the Billy Graham Association.”
-Richard Fink, Charles Koch’s “grand strategist.’ secretly taped at June 15, 2014 Koch donor summit: “We got our clocks cleaned in 2012..” free-market conservatives had lost the crucial ‘middle third’ of voters, which believed liberals cared more about ordinary people like themselves. These people also see “big business”..as greedy. They don’t care about the underprivileged.” Fink conceded the critics were right. The government-slashing agenda of the Koch network was problematic. “We want to decrease regulations..because we can make more profits..and cut government spending so we don’t have to pay so much taxes.”
QAnon “which centers on the baseless belief..Trump is waging a secret campaign against enemies of the ‘deep state’ and a child sex trafficking ring run by satanic pedophiles and cannibals” Who is “Q?” An unasked question: is he another Russian? One QAnon adherent: “I feel God led me to Q. I really feel God pushed me in this direction.”
-Rich Bond, Republican Party chair [1992]; “There is some strategy to it [bashing the “liberal media’}..if you watch a great coach, what they try to do is ‘work the refs.’ Maybe the ref will cut you some slack on the next one.”
-William Kristol, Republican neoconservative: “I admit it, the liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures.”
-Grover Norquist on right-wing advantage: “the conservative press is self-consciously conservative and self-consciously part of the team. The liberal press is much larger..so its conflicted. Sometimes it thinks it needs to be critical of both sides.”
-publisher Gary DeMar and other Christian Reconstructionists envision a society where government posts would be reserved for the righteous, as long as they were male. There would be thousands of executions each year, with stoning preferred because it would turn deaths into “community projects.” Sinners marked for death would include women guilty of adultery or virginity, blasphemers, witches, children who strike parents, and gat men. Eliminated: unions, Social Security, public schools, unemployment benefits, environmental laws, and secular government.
-David Barton’s war on American history was conducted by books. His “The Jefferson Lies” falsities led to detailed rebuttal from two professors at a conservative Christian college. This led to more books and more fact-checking of Barton, including a report by 10 conservative college professors about numerous, often laughable, errors in Barton’s works; a 500-page “Liars for Jesus: The Religious Right’s Alternative Version of American History” [2006] which destroyed Barton’s academic ‘credentials.’
-Pat Robertson: “You say you’re supposed to be nice to Episcopalians and Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense. I don’t have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist.” [700 Club]
-Republican Senator James Inhofe: “Wake up America. With all the hysteria, all the fear, all the phony science, could it be..man-made global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetuated on the American people/ I believe it is”
-Ann Coulter [6/20/10]: “God said, ‘Earth is yours. Take it. Rape it. It’s yours.”
With Justice For All 