House Speaker Mike Johnson has repeatedly made clear that he doesn't really believe in democracy: And that means he does not care if Ukraine dies
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The Louisiana Republican started his political career by stepping unopposed into a state legislature race and has faced an opponent in only half the races he's run, winning handily in his heavily gerrymandered Shreveport district, but historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez told Politico that Johnson's understanding of politics and history is deeply influenced by Christian nationalism.
"I’ve noticed also in listening to his speeches that he is explicit about describing this country as a republic and not as a democracy. Inside these conservative Christian nationalist spaces, that is par for the course: that this is a republic, and it is a republic, again, founded in this biblical worldview, and that it’s not a democratic free-for-all, and so again, this is Christian supremacy," said Du Mez, a historian who specializes in evangelical Christianity and politics.
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While in a sense as to the Constitution, Johnston is technically correct, it means in the literal sense that his world view has more in common with Vladimir Putin's fake republic and defacto tyranny than with Ukraine's non autocratic system, so whom should Johnson prefer? Its a no brainer. And it gets worse. I.e. the Christian nationalists almost all subscribe to the insanity known as end time doctrine'
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What is the end time church doctrine?
It is a specific biblical teaching and knowing the end is as important as knowing our origins. The study of end times is known as the study of Eschatology. It comes from a Greek term that means the study of last things or times
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In a word, the Israeli invasion of Gaza would be cheered by the Christian right not to save hostage lives, as stated by the IDF, but to engender a literal end of the world horror where nuclear weapons being used, are just another code world of bringing a devastated planet to "Jesus",
If you think this is an exaggeration, no it is not
Johnson does not want aid to Ukraine, but wants to cheer on an invasion of Gaza with full aid for that invasion. Not to save hostage lives, and NOT to help either Palestinians and Israeli citizens. It is for pushing "end times" so that there IS a planet killing catastrophe.
That is what the Christian right wants. Armageddon, allegedly right near Aleppo which is very close to where Thutmose III beat Egypt's enemies in the 15th century BC.
To be forewarned is to be forearmed
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October 27, 2023 7:31AM ET
Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) talks to Speaker Pro Tempore Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) on October 25 before he was elected Speaker of the House. Win McNamee/Getty Images
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Newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has repeatedly made clear that he doesn't really believe in democracy, and a historian explained the fallacies that underpin his worldview.
The Louisiana Republican started his political career by stepping unopposed into a state legislature race and has faced an opponent in only half the races he's run, winning handily in his heavily gerrymandered Shreveport district, but historian Kristin Kobes Du Mez told Politico that Johnson's understanding of politics and history is deeply influenced by Christian nationalism.
"I’ve noticed also in listening to his speeches that he is explicit about describing this country as a republic and not as a democracy. Inside these conservative Christian nationalist spaces, that is par for the course: that this is a republic, and it is a republic, again, founded in this biblical worldview, and that it’s not a democratic free-for-all, and so again, this is Christian supremacy," said Du Mez, a historian who specializes in evangelical Christianity and politics.
Johnson has described democracy as "two wolves and a lamb deciding what's for dinner," and Du Mez said his fallacious understanding of U.S. history influenced his efforts to overturn Donald Trump's election loss and explains his willingness to abandon constitutional norms.
"His commitment is not to democracy," Du Mez said. "He’s not committed to majority rule; he seems to be saying he’s committed to minority rule, if that’s what it takes to ensure that we stay on the Christian foundation that the founders have set up."
Johnson's thinking also reflects a growing "anti-democratic turn among the Christian right" since Barack Obama's presidency, when conservative white Christians began to understand they no longer had numbers on their side and escalated their efforts to consolidate power.
"I think what has escalated things in the last decade or so is a growing alarm among conservative white Christians that they no longer have numbers on their side," Du Mez said. "So looking at the demographic change in this country, the quote-unquote 'end of white Christian America' and there’s where you can see a growing willingness to blatantly abandon any commitment to democracy."
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Andrew Beckwith, PhD
No Mahdi as predicted by any religion, but a pact to kill the world. This is NOT an exaggeration. This is what the third man in the USG wants. A pact to kill the world, and the invasion of Gaza if it occurs is all hunky dory so long as the entire PLANET is massacred. This is what is par for the course
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