Post #4052433
2026-07-24 02:58 UTC
That's roughly what U.S. #conservatives say government ought to be like.
Under cover of a strictly deceitful show of faith in democracy and liberty the Republicans have agitated for a return to the "constitutional republic" (modelled after Rome) that used to prevail in the earliest days of the United States when there was no universal suffrage and slavery still held and #politics was a pastime for big landowners and plantation slavedrivers and other such persons whom conservatives deem to be the only truly productive, creative, intellectual, and honorable human beings who ever exist.
(cont'd)
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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-24 03:01
Sadly it's easy to make a case for this style of rulership, if only because there have been so many examples of it and thus U.S. conservatives waste a gigantic quantity of sentimental slobber on eulogizing kings and tyrants, and attempting to assert that only the continued existence of kings and tyrants can truly safeguard liberty and democracy, by some ineffable process which is merely a flimsy cover over the intrinsically totalitarian instincts of #Christian extremists. They do love their Christ the King. King King King, Kingdom this and Kingdom that, it's one of their favorite topics of conversation. (cont'd)