You ask, what are those terms? What do they mean? What do they portend? In fact, what is the connection, why do they dangle from the same fraying rope that is us, our country? Why, indeed.
Let's begin with the last term. Seems simple enough, but not once you attach it to current events. These events portend a grave problem for our future. It is beyond sight of any end to our ongoing crises: crises of faith, of hope, of thought, of American values, of humanistic values.
Where is the origin of "no bottom" for this posting? The election overseer in Michigan was told by Trump that she was guilty of treason and should be executed. Her reaction was thus.
"... it showed there was no bottom to how far he (Trump) and his supporters were willing to stoop to overturn or discredit a legitimate election.”
The answer is that there is indeed no bottom, no depth of dangerous philology, twisted deeds, no depth of nastiness, lies and threatening philosophies which will not be plumbed by these now crazed, lost their way GOP adherents. In fact, Trump is almost a no-never mind to the whole matter. The snowball he sent rolling down the hill, racing towards the bottom, has grown and grown, now having a vicious life all its own, rolling under its own power, generating its own momentum, and grinding all before it under massive, corruptive, corrosive power. No, it has not yet reached its bottom. Neither have the consequences stopped.
There was a vote in the House, 420 - 1, bipartisan, amazingly, condemning antisemitism and the need to honor the Jewish heritage. It "calls on elected officials to recognize the "dangerous rise of antisemitism globally and in the United States" and "condemn and combat any and all manifestations of antisemitism." Would that it was a truth, a reality, but unfortunately, we know otherwise. Vicious canards of the millennia are revived (if indeed, they ever had died), updated with modern addendums. Now the Rothschilds are accused of having a laser by which they control the weather. Wish they did, as they would have used it for the benefit of humanity. This is what Jewry has done throughout time, be it in philanthropy, sciences, literature and the Arts, in any field of endeavor. Judaism itself demands this.
Furthermore, the same GOP members who hypocritically voted for this resolution speak empty words, particularly when we compare this to their other beliefs, the people they nominate and vote into office. Herein lies the definition and the peril of another title word. Theonomy. Goes right along with theocrat and theocracy. It is a frightening extension and interpretation of "onward, Christian soldiers". To create a theocracy under the political philosophy of theonomy, run by theocrats. In plain English: It is when “an advocate of a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or gods.” via “a hypothetical Christian form of government in which society is ruled by divine law.” and "that divine law, particularly the judicial laws of the Old Testament, should be observed by modern societies."
Think no way? Well, think again. Think what it would mean to keep all those original rules and Their PENALTIES. Your confused teen - to death. A violator in another district, state, why go ahead and become the law, wherever! The new law of the theocracy makes it possible. Again you deny the possibility? Unfortunately, it is no more a possibility, but has advanced - regressed? - to a decisive oh, yes! Texas. Oklahoma. What happens there will not stay there. Under their crazed new "christian" inspired thinking, any citizen has the right to extend an iron hand to inform, accuse, arrest, sue, whatever dirty action these absolutely not Christians decide is proper and warranted , under the guiding rules of theocracy which has crept up upon us.
As a person of the Jewish faith, knowing the history of my people under religious law of a state or country, which demeans and endangers believers of another faith, I shudder in fear. Blood- soaked ground, squishing beneath the pressure of feet, those running to kill, those running to hide, and the battleground in between. Not a scenario greatly to be desired! I shudder in fear of such a future.
Now you say it will never happen here. But it already has and will continue to press forward on its repressive agendas. No abortion "from Conception"? So what, will we now have to report every conjugal visit, monitor the sex lives, the lives behind bedroom doors, the most intimate act of humans? Well, think about it. How else does one know when "conception" takes place.
Think abortion, all right to choose is wrong? How about the converse? Which is exactly what is happening. Force people to HAVE children. Yes, force, by the very laws of theocracy, its proponents having now included it within the volumes of laws of the United States. A state of being which itself is rapidly devolving as states throw off the federal government and in fact, reach into other states to enforce their own laws. Theocracy = autocracy. Plain and simple. Egregiously inimical to life, rights, and privacy. Deadly harmful to LGBTQ+, to atheists, to agnostics, to deists, to anyone outside the very narrow lines of the theocracy.
One analyst compared this to the laws regarding slavery, i.e. the Dred Scot decision. Frankly, I see not much of a difference, particularly as the oppression moves forward. Women will be completely regarded as chattels, no rights, no careers, nothing other than to be the epitome of "kinder, kirche, kuch' of Nazi and all repressive philosophies. That translates to children, church (the right one, of course) and kitchen. This, my friends, is slavery. And there are people here, in this country, who are advocating for it, pushing it, desiring it with all the might of their twisted souls.
There is so much more to write on this topic, but time grows short. Suffice it to say that the "metaphorical' civil war predicted, actually now quite well advanced on the battlefields of wars of words, a metaphorical war, will quickly turn into A Civil War in reality, the one where people die. Where people are wounded. Where life is cheap and cruelty abounds.
Is that what we want? Is that what we need? Is that what YOU want? For your own loved ones? Think, think again and again. And again.
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