WE, NOT THEY, ARE THE ‘REAL AMERICANS’

In my last post, I wrote that we liberals and progressives, so far from being un-American, are in fact the very soul (no pun meant) of America. We are the pioneers trying to build something that, so far as is knows, has not yet existed in human history: a multiracial, multi-ethnic, multi-faith (including none) democratic republic. We also stand on the verge of a further extension of democracy; the giving of a voice to Creation itself.
We always should beware of saying our enemies are also God’s enemies, but if God is urging us towards His holy realm as Isaiah describes it, can it be otherwise? They want all — repeat, all — the economic and political power in their hands alone and wish to stifle, or at least neutralize in Viktor Orban’s soft-fascist style, any and all differing voices. Which feels more like God’s Will to you: all of Creation having many various yet harmonious voices or the only voice that of the most ruthless and heartless among us? Which is more Christ-like? If we’re not sure of the answer, I’d say some serious prayer and study (hermeneutics mandatory here!) is seriously required!
I think a word is in order about Orban’s style, and what its possible transplanting here will likely require of us. ‘Soft-fascist’ means that our side is, through co-opting of the media, the judiciary and the counting (and, more often, the discounting) of certain votes means that we are put in a permanent ‘loser’ position. The whites, most Asians and palefaced Hispanics among us will be largely left in physical peace. The fascists will say, ‘Nyah! Nyah!’ which is what those…