The War on America by the “Right,” a 50-year campaign. The political-economic-religious-social RIGHT declared war on America decades ago. They have largely won. America 2023 is very much THEIR creation. It doesn’t work well for most Americans because it ISN’T SUPPOSED TO!!! Following are SOME perpetrator’s 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 National 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 it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.”
- Jay Grimstead, National Director, ”Coalition on Revival”: ”God has given us the Bible as a rule book for all society – Christians and non-Christians alike.”
- Robert Simonds, president, “Citizens for Excellence in Education” and “National Association of Christian Educators”: ”Our job is to evangelize..schools are the battle ground. 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 America 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 urge3d corporate investment in legal scholars..”constant surveillance ” of TV networks foe “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 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 [Koch}
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, 1978 “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 Society co-founder Steven Calabresi: ”I think it [Federalist Society] helps keep them [right-wing Supreme Court justices] in check..the check of 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 [1/10/20], 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 year, that’s middle class.” [10/25/96] !!![the top 1% just became “the middle class”]!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- 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 or background.”
– “Islam is wrong. It 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 ancient Babylonian cults.
- 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 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 in 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 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 an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures.”
- Grover Norquist on the right-wing advantage: “the conservative press is self-consciously conservative and self-consciously part of the team. The liberal press is much larger ..so it’s conflicted. Sometimes it thinks it has to be critical
of both..”
- publisher Gary DeMar and other Christian Reconstructionists envision a society where government posts would be reserved for the righteous, as long as they are male. There would be thousands of executions yearly, with stoning preferred because it would turn deaths into “community projects.” Sinners marked for death would include adulterous
women women or lie about virginity, blasphemers, witches, children who strike parents, and gay men. Eliminated:
unions, Social Security, public schools, unemployment benefits, environmental laws, secular government.
- David Barton’s war on American history was conducted by books. His “The Jefferson Lies” falsities led to detailed
rebuttal from professors at a conservative Christian college. This led to kore books and more fact-checking, including
ten conservative college professors” report 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 the 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 perpetrated 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.”
- Evangelist Franklin Graham: ”I want to see at least 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 are a certified evangelist with the Billy Graham Association.”
- Grover Norquist, right-wing 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.”
As previously stated, this is but a SAMPLE. of what the far right is thinking, what they want to do to totally change America into a theocratic oligarchy. And remember what Warren Buffett said: they’re winning. Research REAL. American history; what the Founding Generations said and tried to do; what Lincoln said; what happened during the “Gilded Age of 1865-1901; why the American people revolted against that in the “Progressive Era”: how the GREED of unrestrained capitalists led to the Great Depression of 1929-1941, Hitler, World War II, the Holocaust; why the American public elected FDR and Truman five [5] consecutive elections; why conservative President Eisenhower refused to undo the New Deal-Fair Deal reforms; how during the 20th century America became the democratic ideal for the world – culminating in the famous 1947-73 golden middle class prosperity - and then…”how the Empire struck back” – in the 1980-202X Far Right counter revolution that aims to return America to 1950, or maybe 1850.
This series of posts under. “The Far Right Threat to Democracy – the rich and corporations, VIII – is designed to inspire. YOU. to do some very serious thinking, some very serious truth finding about how the pattern of 1789-1979 American history, culture, law, economics, government has been. DELIBERATELY. SABOTAGED. by the rich and the corporations they control for many reasons, GREED. being the major driver.
Think on that – people who are already. RICH, comfortable, POWERFUL – are not satisfied. they. NEED more!!!!!
Do some research on fascism, especially the “14 characteristics.” America is ALREADY infected by some of these.
The 2024 elections may turn out to be. THE most crucial elections since 1932. Please, do your best to be informed about the issues – INFORMED, not seduced by “good sounding”. lies and propaganda. What do foreign countries like Canada, our friends in Western Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, etc. say?
With Justice For All 