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Like QAnon, to most Americans the U.S. Republican Party is now an American religion based on belief, conspiracies, dogma.

Religion: range of social-cultural systems, incl. designated behaviors & practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, & spirituality
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion

Behind the scenes Christian right / libertarian billionaires pull the strings.

#GOP #QAnon

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The GOP As We Knew It Is Long Gone And May Never Return
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/the-gop-as-we-knew-it-is-long-gone-and-may-never-return

#Koch #evil #capitalism #GOP #RepublicanParty #Trumpism #MAGA #QAnon #billionaires #corporations #libertarianism #ChristianRight #conservatism #homophobia #transphobia #HeritageFoundation #LeonardLeo #SCOTUS

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America's nonreligious are a growing, diverse phenomenon. They really don't like organized religion
https://projects.apnews.com/features/2023/the-nones/the-nones-us.html

* most religions are there to control people and get money from them said Dulak (76, Missouri)
* he also cited sex abuse scandals in Catholic & Southern Baptist churches
* as Dulak rejects being part of a religious flock, he has plenty of company
* he is a “none” ... the kind that checks “none” when pollsters ask “What’s your religion?”

#USA #religion #demographics

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Scholar charted decline in religion; church he pastors closing its doors
https://apnews.com/article/illinois-christian-baptist-church-closure-religious-trends-c6b9e938eb228c8018fb911b02a791f0

* 4,500 Protestant churches closed in 2019
* churches dwindle due to scandal, conflict, mobility, indifference, lower birth rates, switching to a church they like better
* most Americans remain religious
* some surveys suggest that the long rise of the “nones” has slowed/paused
* nonreligious far more common today in U.S./other nations than generation ago

#USA #religion #demographics

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Project 2025 Links Revolving Door of Players & Far Right Political Funding
Such cross-pollination - common in political circles - becoming regular occurrence among hate groups
https://truthout.org/articles/project-2025-links-a-revolving-door-of-players-and-far-right-political-funding

* For Republicans goal is to keep white Christian nationalists in power at all costs

#Koch #capitalism #GOP #RepublicanParty #Trumpism #MAGA #billionaires #corporations #libertarianism #ChristianRight #conservatism #HeritageFoundation #LeonardLeo #SCOTUS #ConservativePartnershipInstitute #CPI

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Once Enemies, Trumpists and Mainstream Conservatives Are Now Chillingly United
The Heritage Foundation’s president announced in January that the foundation’s role is “institutionalizing Trumpism”
https://truthout.org/articles/once-enemies-trumpists-and-mainstream-conservatives-are-now-chillingly-united

#Koch #capitalism #GOP #RepublicanParty #Trump #Trumpism #MAGA #billionaires #corporations #libertarianism #ChristianRight #conservatism #HeritageFoundation #LeonardLeo #SCOTUS #ConservativePartnershipInstitute #CPI

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Addendum to thread landing page:

None Dare Call It Conspiracy (1972) Gary Allen
https://archive.org/details/none-dare-call-it-conspiracy_202101
"We are going to have a dictatorship of the elite disguised as the dictatorship of the proletariat”

Discussed 2024-Jul:
J. D. Vance Is Summoning John Birch Society
Populist appeals indistinguishable f. economic vision of 1970s John Birch Society
https://jacobin.com/2024/07/vance-trump-gop-john-birch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Allen
Senior member, John Birch Society
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society

#libertarianism #Koch #fascism #GOP

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John Birch Society
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society

* right-wing political advocacy group
* anti-communist; social conservatism
* ultraconservative, radical right, far-right, right-wing populism/libertarianism
* founders: Harry Lynde Bradley (Bradley Foundation), Fred C. Koch (Koch Industries) ...
* Trump 2016 election: JBS core instincts finally reflected in White House
* political commentator, 2016: Trumpism" essent. Bircherism

#GaryAllen #Koch #Trump #billionaires #libertarianism #fascism

Koch network’s flagship super PAC pours big money into 2024 elections
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2024/08/koch-network-flagship-super-pac-pours-big-money-into-2024-elections

* Koch network flagship group
* 2 decades financially influencing U.S. elections
* AFP super PAC ranks 3rd in outside spending in 2024 cycle
* Americans for Prosperity Action, hybrid PAC affiliated w. AFP, spent $257+ million since 2004
* supports conservative congressional/presidential candidates

#Koch #evil #AmericansForProsperity #billionaires #ElectoralFraud #libertarianism #fascism #superPAC #GOP

6 Billionaire Fortunes Bankrolling Project 2025
$120+ million f. few ultra-wealthy families powering Heritage Foundation to remake American gov.
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/112962304294428041
https://www.desmog.com/2024/08/14/project-2025-billionaire-donor-heritage-foundation-donald-trump-jd-vance-charles-koch-peter-coors

Evil:
Coors Family
Charles Koch
Richard & Elizabeth Uihlein
Scaife Family
Barre Seid (also gave $1.6 BILLION to Leonard Leo)
Bradley Family

#billionaires #EnablingFascism #GOP #Trumpism #HeritageFoundation #KevinRoberts #Project2025 #FamilyResearchCouncil #TonyPerkins #fascism #libertarianism #FarRight

The Right's 50-yr plot to wreck democracy
https://www.salon.com/2024/08/16/unpacking-the-rights-50-year-plot-to-wreck-democracy--and-why-it-might-work

Antidemocratic: Inside Far Right's 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections
https://bookshop.org/p/books/minority-rule-david-daley/20370445?ean=9780063321090

* equal parts Dark Money/Democracy in Chains
* riveting/disturbing history of 50-yr Republican plot to hijack voting rights

#billionaires #Koch #capitalism #RepublicanParty #Trump #Trumpism #libertarianism #ChristianRight #conservatism #HeritageFoundation #LeonardLeo #SCOTUS #JaneMayer #NancyMcLean #ElectoralFraud #GOP

Leonard Leo (billionaire funded conservative activist)

The Federalist Society Won Its 40-Year War on Affirmative Action
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110680050501284298

Conservative activist Leonard Leo’s decades-long campaign to gut Planned Parenthood
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/112978449322281069

#SCOTUS #LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety #FarRight #ChristianRight #conservatism #neoconservatism #ReproductiveRights #WomensRights #abortion #PlannedParenthood #fascism #billionaires #EnablingFascism #GOP