#conservatism

harryhaller@diasp.eu

Looking at current western foreign policy writings, it's clear from their atiitude that the west is in full blown world-domination mode, openly talking about subjecting each and every country to its domination - and that with the same spirit of condescension that accompanied western missionaries to China in the 19th century resulting, in the Boxer Uprising and the wholesale slaughter of christian missionaries by the 13th Dalai Llama.
Then, as now, the west was trying to pry Tibet away from China, as part of its global balkanisation.

The modern versions of the Shanghai International Settlement are the special economic zones, followed by, as happened in China, the west claiming parts of such countries as spheres of influence.. there are even such plans for parts of Europe (trans-border economic zones). See also the ECSC

It's as if the 70 years between the 1919 war of intervention in Russia and Yeltsin;s coup was just an interruption - the imperial games can continue, this time as a cartel led by the USA and includes that mostrosity, the "personal union" of the House Of Windsor consisting of the second largest country in the world, a whole continent and lots of crown territories (Cyprus, Gibraltar .. the list is long). (the crown owns the sea bed around the British Isles).. and the broken EU - the UK's ambition of a manageable continent completed - Balance of Power.

And there's still Africa..

#tags? #usa #liberalism #conservatism #imperialism #totalitarianism #corporatism #propertyism #ism-ism ...» #profit #wealth ... any excuse will do

prplcdclnw@diasp.eu

Pluralistic: The true, tactical significance of Project 2025 (14 Jul 2024)

Cory Doctorow

https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/14/fracture-lines/

Many people I like and trust have pointed out that they don't like Biden and think he will be a bad president, but they think Trump will be much worse. To limit Biden's harms, leftists have to take over the Democratic Party and the progressive movement, so that he's hemmed in by his power base. To limit Trump's harms, leftists have to identify the fracture lines in the right coalition and drive deep wedges into them, shattering his power base.

#cory #cory-doctorow #trump #project-2025 #conservatives #democratic-party #republican-party #heritage-foundation #conservatism #biden

eccodrum@diasp.org

How Corporate America Invented Christian America

Inside one reverend’s big business-backed 1940s crusade to make the country conservative again.
By KEVIN M. KRUSE April 16, 2015

ChristianNationalism

This is an older, but relevant, article that gives some insight into the rise of Christian Nationalism. It compliments nicely Elizabeth Fones-Wolf's book, The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism (1994). I've only just started The Power Worshipers by Katherine Stewart but highly recommend it. Lastly, I'll include a link to Political Research Associates and their work on uncovering Right-Wing funding.

#religion #ChristianNationalism #RightWing #authoritarianism #conservatism #liberalism #libertarianism #business #fascism

wist@diasp.org

A quotation from Russell, Bertrand

In the main, I think religion has done a great deal of harm. Largely by sanctifying conservatism and adhesion to ancient habits, and still more by sanctifying intolerance and hatred. The amount of intolerance that has gone into religion, especially in Europe, is quite terrible.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Interview by Woodrow Wyatt, BBC TV (1959)

#quote #quotes #quotation #conservatism #hatred #history #intolerance #organizedreligion #religion #tradition
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/russell-bertrand/63617/

rich@diaspora.psyco.fr

#CONSERVATISM #fake salt
How Christianity Lost the Savor - Truth is the stone they can sling…they just don’t know it. Not political Truth…not the kind that “the truth detector” espouses three-hours a day on AM radio…but real Truth…life altering Truth…simplistic Truth that can change the world. But real Truth doesn’t sell. In fact, it usually hurts. But nothing sets one free as much as knowing the Truth. Jesus is THE TRUTH. He is more than a Savior…more than a name on a coin…more than someone in whom “we trust.” Jesus is the incarnation of The Truth. Apart from Him, everything else is an opinion…a mere shadow of Truth. Feel-good theology was popularized by Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking), and handed off to Pseudo-Christians Zig Ziglar (See You at the Top) and Robert Schuller (Move Ahead With Possibility Thinking).
https://newswithviews.com/how-christianity-lost-the-savor/