Sunday, August 13, 2017

is there something to that idea, though?

is what's happening in places like virginia ultimately deconstructed into a kind of schism on the christian right, which is being torn between it's history and it's present? and, is the entire conflict really ultimately so insulated from the dominant culture as to be more or less irrelevant?

i would guess that a very large percentage of people probably share my apprehension in not really wanting to take a side in a conflict between nazis and christians, which is what appears to be actually happening on the ground, rather than the kind of imagined narrative on the alt-right about fighting jews and communists. the christian groups seem to be outnumbering the socialist groups by a substantial factor.

it's legitimately hard to imagine what the christian right is going to look like in 20 years if it doesn't open it's arms to hispanics and blacks. for all the concern about rising fascism, is there maybe even something valid in the idea that the culture of white christian dominance is actually in the throes of it's last dying gasps, and that it's about to be overtaken on the right by a coalition of conservative hispanics and conservative blacks, under the banner of a rejuvenated and pluralist christian right, as whites abandon religion for secular liberalism in an america-wide quiet revolution?

and, is there any real use in getting involved in a civil war on the right?

if i was there, i would insist that socialists do not protest with faith groups, but carry on separate protests. it wouldn't be hard to organize, either. but, i suspect i'd realize pretty quickly that this actually isn't about socialism at all, but about what christians want christianity to be.