"Patient Theocratic Revolutionaries"
"Dominionists are patient revolutionaries. They work through the system to gain control. Then they work from within the system to change the system. The changes they are making are incremental. They have little respect for democracy and none for pluralism. They mean business and they already hold many of the mechanisms of power around the country.Who speaks more about politics than a dominionist? An anti-dominionist! They're consumed with politics. They live, eat, sleep, and drink it. Why? Well, they'd say it's to preserve democracy. Ah yes, precious democracy. That elusive, ill-defined ideal that always seems to be under attack. However, these espousers of democratic zeal are only hiding their true calling: revolution!
"It is long past time for Americans who love democracy to acknowledge what is at stake and start facing the challenge that these patient theocratic revolutionaries represent. Facing this challenge means organizing at the grass roots level - precinct by precinct - the same way they did. Rhetoric and writing alone, no matter how passionate, is not going to defeat them. In the end, what matters most is the number of ballots that are cast to oppose them and whether the votes are accurately recorded."
In the citation above, notice the contradiction of the author regarding the tactics utilized by the "patient theocratic revolutionaries." He writes, "They work through the system to gain control." A very revolutionary thing to do! "They work from within the system to change the system." My goodness, the evil theocrats are politically effective. How evil!
What is this writer's solution? "Facing this challenge means organizing at the grass roots level - precinct by precinct - the same way they did." So, would that make the anti-dominionists revolutionaries then? Is their use of political tactics somehow more noble because they're not conservative? Can somebody help me here?
This writer claims the dominionists have "little respect for democracy and none for pluralism." But it appears the dominionists have great respect for democracy. In fact, they are quite adept at obtaining their political goals through a more effective use of democracy. This writer is whining -- whining that he can do little more than blog about it.
For two years now I've given you a close look at the anti-theocratic opposition. I've taken you inside their conferences. I've shown you their blogs, and undone much of their arguments. They're losing both the war and the battles. They lose because they have no heart to win. They have no heart to win because their cause is not religious. They fight for man, not God. Worse yet, they fight for sinful man -- a lost cause.
This is why the tactics of the secularists are changing. Chris Hedges' latest book American Fascists is the most recent installment of the new propaganda. The sheer paranoia that fills its pages is so unbecoming of a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist like Hedges. Later this week I'll post Lee Duigon's review of Hedges' book. I'll also post a podcast interview with Duigon. I like to double-up when I hit back!
I must say I'm quite happy to hear conservative Christians described as "patient theocratic revolutionaries." Obviously, the opposition is not so patient. Therefore, they may resort to more drastic measures to prevent the civil installment of the Religious Right. At that point, these anti-theocrats will become the true revolutionaries; for that is what they are. They will not be patient. They will not work "precinct by precinct." They don't have the numbers or the resources. This will make them desperate men. This will make them revolutionaries.
