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In reply to the discussion: David Brat warns ‘the weak modern Christian democratic man’ will submit to another Hitler [View all]quaker bill
(8,224 posts)It is fun stuff, this right wing social engineering. It never works. You see, they will tell you that it is not that their ideas are flawed, it is that real people are not good enough for them to work. If you re-make the people into something much better, then their ideas will start working.
On the other hand they thrive on the concept of "original sin" and "substitutional atonement", where we are all hopeless sinners that can only be saved in the "next life" by a professed but rarely acted on faith in a person who died on a cross some 2000 years ago.
Further they find the entire concept of "social engineering" offensive, but intend to find a way to change the very nature of humanity, even better, they are going to implement it by taking over government, an institution they find in principle to be utterly incapable of creating social change.
They pretend that Government can "defend the sanctity of marriage", when in fact it can only be done by those making the vows (regardless of gender mix).
One could go on and on.
Cognitive dissonance is an interesting concept, but it is not large enough to cover this.