The Democrats are going full “Dodgeball” by deciding, after their latest perverted, weirdo constituent went on a mass murder spree of little Christian kids, that they should take aim at the idea of prayer. Apparently, the big problem in the aftermath of yet another Dem-aligned killer is that we’re turning to God and not to our Democrat betters. We shouldn’t be on our knees before the Lord; we should be on our knees before them, submitting, obeying, and accepting the divine right to rule of the No Kings Klan. That’s a bold strategy, Cotton – let’s see if it pays off for them.
It’s unclear whether the Democrats are stupid and bigoted about Christians (as well as observant Jews, whom they also despise as a matter of policy), or whether they are merely bigoted. Regardless, the outcome is the same. They will fire up their freak show base but drive away the normals. The Democrat Party was born of largely faithful working-class people, and it has morphed into a party of largely pagan professional managerial-class swells who embrace a bizarre quasi-religious ideology that rejects God and embraces their SSRI-driven obsessions.
Purposefully or not, they misunderstand the purpose of prayer, which is to connect with God. The Lord is not a vending machine where you insert your prayer and get the result you want. This misunderstanding is of a kind with the over-credentialed cretins who think that Christian salvation is based on a tally of good deeds, as if Jesus is there at the pearly gates with a clipboard checking off mitzvahs until you get enough of them, and says, “Congratulations, welcome to heaven.”
Now, of course, this may be stray voltage, that is, an attempt to create a smaller imbroglio to distract from a larger one. It certainly looks organized. Various politicians and media hacks, including Gavin Newsom, that femboy Minneapolis mayor, Jen Psaki-Longstocking, and Senator Tina Whateverhernameis, plus others, all jumped on the “How dare you pray!” bandwagon in a suspiciously coordinated manner. Perhaps they wanted to turn attention away from yet another trans freak deciding to murder normal people because he can’t become a girl. Americans are getting sick of evil, mentally ill mutants who take out their frustrations with either having or not having a penis on innocent people. Paired with the prayer calumny were the usual calls for common-sense gun control; what America needs is common-sense deviant control.
The problem for the Democratic Party is that most Americans are still people who believe in normal religions and not weird pagan superstitions, like the climate hoax, systemic racism, and feminism. These boutique beliefs may be ubiquitous in blue urban areas and pampered suburbs, but they just don’t play with the normals. The people who run the Democrat Party no longer embrace Christianity, nor even tolerate it. They actively dislike it and the people who practice it, and they barely put up with it even when practiced by groups that are still inside their shrinking tent.
Pity the poor black church ladies who still believe in that Jesus stuff; you can almost see the eyes roll back in the heads of the frigid white Chardonnay women who dominate the party when they encounter sincere belief. Black ladies of faith, the door is open to you at the Republican Party. We’re not going to mock you or laugh at you or treat you as if you’re mental defectives who will vote as directed in exchange for a pat on the head, some DEI talk, and maybe a visit to your church where the Ultimate Tiresome White Lady can tell you how she don’t feel no ways tired. Remember, until the Democrat Party is finally gone with the wind, the wine women will always insist on being Scarlet, and you will always be Mammy, expected to submit and serve as an enabler and supporting player in their neurotic psychodramas.
In the meantime, the Democrats have their own rituals and sacraments. Just the other day, at the Democrat annual convention, they had some alleged Indian come up and give a land acknowledgment. Some people fast, some confess and do penance, and some listen to Elizabeth Warren’s second cousin give them grief because Europeans conquered this continent, to which they nod in approval at their own historical abnegation. Every time you order a glass of iced tea and it comes with a paper straw that degenerates into mush after the first couple of sips, you are participating in one of their rituals. It means nothing, but the sacrifice of both the utility and the dignity that come from a plastic straw is a secular sacrament.
Oh, and they have heretics too. That would be us, the ones who don’t believe that a woman can have a penis or that a man can get pregnant. We refuse to say the holy words that are their preferred pronouns or their euphemisms like “the unhoused” for bums, junkies, and hobos. For these heresies, we must be driven from our employment, driven from society, and – increasingly – driven from this mortal coil by murderous perverts, whose minds are twisted by sick leftist lies.
While it certainly rallies their God-free communist cadres, disrespecting prayer and people who pray is going to be a huge turn-off to everybody else. It’s not clear they understand that, since they don’t seem to know anybody who believes in God and assume anyone who does is a little bit insane (to them, believing in God is insane; believing you were born the wrong gender is not). Note that this doesn’t apply to any other religions – those are awesome. It’s just the ones that founded America that are bad, because, of course, everything about America is bad except them.
It’s not clear that the Republicans will necessarily benefit from this in the long run, though they probably will in the short run. In Europe, there are overtly Christian parties that are usually the parties of the right and are in opposition to the leftist parties. In the past, these parties were actually conservative, but, like many of the mainline Protestant denominations in America, they’ve been infiltrated, overwhelmed, and assimilated into the Bolshevik Borg. The German Christian Democrats are just as ready to submit to foreign invasion as the Social Democrats. For this reason, while it might be tempting for the Republican Party to continue towards becoming the default party of religious people in America, that might not be good either for the party or the religions. Look at the Republican parties in the red states; when it’s the only game in town, people who should be Democrats come flooding into it and water it down into a gooey bowl of ideological tofu. While perhaps it will give us an edge in the short term, it is to our long-term advantage for both parties to welcome the religious. But that’s not going to happen while the Democrat Party is controlled by a bunch of atheist pagans for whom ridiculous ideology is a substitute for a meaningful faith.
So, pray for our country even if that makes Gavin Newsom’s teen social media gurus sad.
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