'In bed together': How Christian nationalists and big donors are 'demolishing democracy'

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https://www.alternet.org/christian-nationalists-big-donors/

In her review of the documentary Bad Faith: Christian nationalism's unholy war on democracy, Guardian writer Adrian Horton remarked on how filmmakers have shown that far-right Christian evangelicals and their financial backers have a shared common goal: replacing representative democracy with an autocratic regime. The film kicks off by juxtaposing footage of participants in the deadly January 6, 2021 siege of the U.S. Capitol with former President Donald Trump's spiritual advisor, Paula White, praying to overturn the 2020 election.

Bad Faith director Stephen Ujlaki told Horton. "[W]hen they talk about recreating the kingdom of God on earth, they weren’t talking about something spiritual. They were talking about demolishing democracy so that God, i.e. themselves, could rule. And for that reason, I call it a conspiracy carried out in broad daylight."

The ideology of Christian nationalism is centered around the erroneous belief that the United States was founded as a Christian nation (many of the framers were actually Deists). Its proponents want to elect explicitly Christian conservative leaders to firmly establish a government that establishes a hierarchy in which white, Christian men are at the top, with women, minorities, the LGBTQ+ community and practitioners of other faiths forced to live under their rule.

In the film, author Anne Nelson — a longtime scholar of the religious right — explored the financial connection between Christian nationalists and major donors like the far-right Koch network. She argued that even though the movement's financial backers may not share their religious fanaticism, they nonetheless see Christian nationalists as useful tools in their goal of dismantling democracy in order to further enrich themselves. "They’re in bed together, based on economic principles, not theology," Nelson said.

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1. Sounds like required viewing to me.

I'm renting it tonight. ($2.99 on Prime Video.)

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2. This is the most dangerous threat to your democracy since WW2

Is it being normalized like every other Trumpian reichwing assault on government by the people?

Are we sleepwalking to totalitarianism like the look-away Germans of the 1930's?

More and more it feels that way to me. Sure glad I'm much closer to the end of my life than the beginning.

I will still expend all possible remaining energy on fighting this unholy alliance between fascist greed mongers and faux religious hypocritical cultist control freaks.

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3. The documentary "Bad Faith" is available on Amazon Prime

"The current day assault on democracy did not begin with Trumpism. It did not begin with the Tea Party. It did not begin with the Moral Majority. It did not even begin in this century. The current day assault on democracy began with the White Supremacy Movement in the 1960's as part of a shrewd, calculated, and well executed plan that became cloaked as a religious movement."

Does anyone even give a shit?