CONSERVATISM ON THE BRINK

   This Sunday, the Italian Government---under considerable public pressure---issued a rather tepid but at least symbolic statement against the Israeli Regime after news leaked out that two Arab women were gunned down by Zionist death-squads inside a Palestinian church. Unlike American churches, there is a strong pushback in Continental Europe against the atrocities ongoing against the Palestinians. Spain recently severed diplomatic ties with Israel, and expelled two Beltway spies who were fomenting intrigues against the Spanish Government. Pope Francis has been actively calling for a ceasefire and condemning Zionist terrorism; although as typical of recent Vatican policy, Francis managed to undermine his own moral authority shortly thereafter. 

    Although the Israeli Government has turned Bethlehem into a gay travel destination, the few remaining Christians there risked persecution to set up a Nativity Display in solidarity with their brethren in Gaza who have been singled out for especial punishment by the Chosen People in Tel Aviv. 

    The so-called 'terrorists' in Hamas---who actually defend the rights of Arab Christians---are officially routinely accused of (without any actual proof) of using churches as human shields. The idea is laughable, since the Zionists don't even wince from killing their own people in their pious zeal to efface the Sin of Amalek. Thousands of miles away, from the safety of their Megachurch pews, far too many American Churchians turn a blind eye to all of this. I suppose that should be expected, since the same group has a long history of ignoring injustices in our own country. 

   The manly Alpha leaders among American social and religious pundits have been telling us for decades that things like poverty and addiction are the result of poor lifestyle choices and no concern to them or society; just like they now tell us that children born in Palestine choose to support Hamas and it's their own fault if they get firebombed or cut down with machine-guns. The problem with this kind of apathy towards social issues---aside from its obvious contradiction to what Jesus actually taught Christians to do---is that things like poverty, crime, addiction, and lack of healthcare take a huge toll on society in ways that effect all of us. These Churchians will tell us that it's immoral to tax people to subsidize bad lifestyle choices but they can't get it through their thick skulls that they're already subsidizing it by ignoring it. What it would cost in tax dollars, for example, to build treatment centers for drug addicts and the mentally ill is minuscule compared to what it costs us in terms of property crime, financing the Prison-Industrial Complex and Big Pharma, urban blight, etc. 

   But when reads borderline psychopathic rants like those regularly published on supposedly Conservative news sites, blogs, and vlogs, we get the impression that these Christian Conservatives wouldn't be at all unhappy employing a Final Solution a la Gaza to our own Permanent Underclass. It's orientations like these which are rotting the Conservative Movement out from within; and hopefully more will start calling out before it leads to something worse. If we continue on this trajectory, it will only lead to one of two outcomes. Either the Conservative Movement will implode and we will guarantee several decades of Leftist tyranny, or it will gain momentum and we'll be guaranteed several years of Neofascist tyranny. Bolshevik Russia is an example of what historically happened in the first case; the Third Reich is an example of what happened in the other. Neither of those are paths that we want to follow.