The woke religion has been established with the backing of government by refusing to enforce established law, actively banning and delisting the freedom of speech…. especially if the speech contains truth and not the narrative that our woke masters desire to help them get away with lawless behavior, stealing from the treasury, and taking other peoples property in the name of good governance, or reparations for past perceived crimes.

The religion of corruption of everything we hold dear.
This is how dark ages are created and maintained.

Hurry up, TEXIT – get us out of the sewer Old America has become.

What is happening in Rhode Island —

“government officials in places like Rhode Island have apparently become addicted to the power they obtained during the Wuhan panic …[and after] COVID, they realized they could get away with the arbitrary use of power to deny CEF access, and decided to use it to blacklist its Good News clubs.” —

seems to be happening in blue cities and states across the country, apparently with at least the tacit approval of their voters. In a very real sense, these people have effectively rejected and repudiated what were once the fundamental values and institutions of this country / culture — freedom of speech, the Rule of Law, the right to self defense, and their prerogatives as parents, among others — and accepted a rebranded version of Marxist ideology in their place. Given a choice, most of these people would probably vote for something approximating life in Cuba or in Communist China (San Franciscans would go full stop and opt for a North Korean style society) as opposed to the American Republic that the Founders bequeathed to us. Give us “free stuff” and “protection” from the bad Christians and conservatives, they implore, and we will happily give you our children and accept living as serfs. Such a deal.

The tragedy from a conservative point of view is that almost no one saw this cultural revolution coming, and their lackluster response has been mostly too little, too late*. Indeed, even at this late date, many conservatives *still* do not understand that is this a
*cultural* conflict about fundamental values and ways of governing as opposed to the traditional left-right partisan political fight over which means were best to achieve commonly agreed upon ends. Today, however, the great divide among our populace is about ends and the kind of country / culture / society that people want to live in, and the left has succeeded beyond its wildest dreams in convincing so many Americans that that they should despise the nation (and its institutions) that they grew up in. Thanks to their efforts, this country no longer shares a common set of beliefs about what constitutes a good society or the rules by which it should operate, and, in short, there is no longer a consensus about what America ought to “be,” or even if it should continue as we have known it. A truly remarkable achievement in destroying consensus in a such a short period of time.

*Analogous to England in the 1930s — https://www.amazon.com/Why-England-Slept-John-Kennedy/dp/4871877671/ref=asc_df_4871877671?tag=bngsmtphsnus-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80264466333875&hvnetw=s&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4583863992931444&psc=1

Thus our present — and possibly unwinnable — culture war. As other observers have suggested, this fundamental disagreement about values and ends may have already gone so far that the only way for something like an American state to survive is to embrace a kind of radical Federalism in which the several states agree to remain together as a trading bloc but without sharing a common national culture or even a common Constitution or set of laws. If the goal of conservatives has been to “conserve” our national culture and former ways of life, well, we have FAILED SPECTACULARLY at that, and we are now reaping the whirlwind. But here we are.

One tends to think of Christianity as kind of an impotent gathering of old people who meet on Sunday mornings and listen to tired sermons about sin and hell and then eat stale cookies in the after-church coffee hour.

But there’s something about Christianity that terrifies the left.

David Eastman: Heh. I just finished reading that article and had the same thought. It specifically notes that religious clubs cannot be denied free use of public facilities.

The problem however is not with a handful of school officials. It is now the culture to blacklist and oppress. A large plurality of America now thinks traditional conservatives are all “white supremacists” who must be stopped, by any means necessary. Winning one lawsuit or two will not change this.

However, you’re probably right that it will take more than lawsuits to fix this.