Excerpt #107 from my book, Religion, An Obstacle to Human Progress
“What conservatives are really arguing for is a return to the three historic forms of tyranny: kings, theocrats, and noble feudal lords. America’s Founders and Framers identified, declared war against, and fought and died to keep these forms of tyranny out of our land. These new conservatives would have us trade in our democracy for a corporatocracy, a form of feudal government most recently reinvented by Benito Mussolini when he recommended a “merger of business and state interests” as a way of creating a government that would be invincibly strong. Mussolini called it fascism. They want to replace government of, by, and for We, the People,with a corporate feudal state, turning America’s citizens into their vassals and serfs.” (Excerpted from “Midnight Ride of the Rabble” by Thom Hartmann)
Conservative Agenda
Anti-abortion
Pro Guns
Pro Business (no restrictions and docile workers)
Government as Adversary
More Religious
School Prayer
Creationism
Anti-science/intellectual
Private Schools
Liberal/Progressive Agenda
Pro Choice
Gun Control
Pro Environment (favors restrictions and worker organizations)
Government as Partner
More Secular
No School Prayer
Evolution
For science/intellect
Public Schools
We began with freedom. America was opened after the feudal mischief was spent. No inquisitions here, no kings, no nobles, no dominant church. – Ralph Waldo Emerson in his lecture “The Fortune of the Republic,” December 1, 1863