What Republicans’ Kool Aid Moment Means for the Rest of Us
We do not have to become a cult to defeat a cult.
We do not have to become a cult to defeat a cult.
Rigging an election is much harder than it looks, and Republicans can’t even get the easy stuff right.
Fox News has decided that risking the lives of their viewers is a better business decision than alienated their political masters or compromising their cult beliefs.
How do we preserve our humanity while winning a battle against an inhumane system?
Liberal democracies are facing an existential threat from a new generation of authoritarians borrowing old, discredited ideas. But is it accurate to characterize that threat as “fascist,” and if so, why does it matter?
If we can’t recognize the complexity of ordinary people, the capacity of indifference to spawn horror, then we won’t be prepared to halt its rise.
To quote Bart Simpson, they folded faster than Superman on laundry day.
Say what you will about the Heaven’s Gate cult members, but at least they were only interested in their own suicide. The evangelical death cult in its modern form is serving up their poison for everyone.
Conservatives across the globe have embraced the logic of the suicide bomber. They will destroy a nascent new order even if they must burn down their own home, and yours.
We lost our chance to build the future. Those opportunities don’t come along every day, and we may not see another.