Or you will soon find yourselves living in one.
Those who know me don’t often hear my political opinions. I’m neither Republican nor Democrat1, so pretty much everyone disagrees with me.
This is a non-partisan issue.
The things that are happening in the government are almost certainly motivated by Dominionist ideology. Two of the main groups responsible for the situation, the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) and The Heritage Foundation (HF) are, based on their goals and behaviors, deeply Dominionist.
Most of us wouldn’t mind hearing the occasional “Merry Christmas” or tolerating the occasional cake decorating refusal if we weren’t living in constant terror of what the Dominionists will do to us.
The ADF uses religious liberty2 as a pretext, but they are also the ones who got Roe v Wade overturned, and they tirelessly harass anyone who doesn’t use their genitals in ways that the ADF approves. They are definitely willing to force their ideology onto everyone else3.
Dear ADF folks: most of us really wouldn’t mind hearing the occasional “Merry Christmas” or tolerating the occasional cake decorating refusal if we weren’t living in constant terror of what the Dominionists will do to us if they are ever allowed to get their way.
The Dominionists are trying to get their way. Permanently and totally.
Telling the Dominionists that we will not allow them to torture or terrorize us is absolutely not “anti-Christian bias”.
They are trying to take over the government. If you’ve been thinking that, then you’re not just imagining things. The method they are using is called State Capture. The latter is not always or necessarily used to gain absolute control over the state, but I’m pretty sure that’s where this is headed.
There are many well documented actions to support this claim.
It is Dominionist because of the unashamed attempt to force certain cultural norms that are claimed as “moral” by Dominionists. I’ll give two examples. One: almost immediately trans folk were purged from the Pentagon. Two: there have been hunts for evidence of “anti-Christian bias”.
Dear Bondi and Rubio: telling the Dominionists that we will not allow them to torture or terrorize us is absolutely not “anti-Christian bias”.
They will come for us, too.
It is State Capture for many reasons, but most especially due to the sickening attacks on freedom of speech. As evidence I offer that I’m afraid to write this, but not just for me. I worry that friends, loved ones, family, and coworkers will be targeted. It is hard to guess how many folks in government realize that what they are doing has terrible implications. Many Dominionists would be shouting it to the world if they weren’t afraid of the penalty for high treason. I’m sure some of them are shouting anyway.
These folks do not merely want a ‘smaller government’. That is a ruse. They want the state to be controlled by people who are happy to force their Christian ‘values’ onto everyone else.
I strongly recommend that we do no harm.
Even if our democracy manages to survive, it will be severely damaged. They won’t stop at LGBTQ+ folks or migrants or professors who dare to have opinions. They will come for us, too.
I don’t know the best way forward. I strongly recommend that we do no harm. I’m probably as angry with them as anyone. But harm generally begets more harm. And they thrive in a harm-based system. Let’s change the playing field. Find ways. Resist. Scream and stamp your feet4. Use the magickal and the mundane.
There is no time to waste. Every claw they get into the government will multiply the difficulty of removing it.
Stop them.
- I am most likely to identify as Anarchist. Depending on the audience, I might specify “Unadjectived Anarchist” or “Jeffersonian Anarchist”. I don’t toss Molotov cocktails in my spare time. Anarchy doesn’t mean a lack of rules. It means a lack of hierarchy. It means that no one is better than anyone else. ↩︎
- They often invert the meanings of words. In addition to liberty, consider their takes on love and freedom among others. ↩︎
- There are excellent videos on the ADF at Last Week Tonight. ↩︎
- An easy way to learn who your government officials are is to use Five Calls. Trigger alert: the action suggestions tend toward the left, but whatever your orientation, the app will show you who to contact and how to do it. ↩︎