MAGA'S DEFINITION OF FREEDOM IS TYRANNY

We all want freedom. Most of us participate in the notion of freedom our forefathers enshrined in the Constitution, to which we continue to aspire in the concept we call democracy.

Not so, the MAGAs. Driven ideologically and dogmatically by the errant Christian Evangelicals, the MAGAs have an entirely different concept of freedom. Robert Jaffee serves us the explanation:

"The problem with our argument against Trump is that 35-40% of this country would rather live under a dictatorship, especially the evangelicals and religious conservatives.

Democracy is an antithetical to their ideology. They only believe in freedoms that correspond to their belief systems and worldviews. Everyone else is an affront to their way of life.

And Trump has brought these people closer to the Promised Land than any president before him. Not even Bush or Reagan would have approved some of the Trump judges who overturned Wade.

We need to convince everyone else that these religious wing-nuts are the greatest threat to this nation, and we are just one election away from a Christian version of Sharia Law being implemented in this country. Our separation of church and state is in grave danger."

We have given religion a pass in our secular political and philosophical discourse. Matters of "faith" have been off limits, and unscrupulous religious leaders and would-be dictators have coopted religion as their shield and sword. We are overdue to give religion its just due and call it to account.

Faith is defined as belief in the absence of evidence. We leave each individual to believe as they will, freely, without fear of retribution or condemnation. 

However, when religion takes advantage of its protection and freedom of practice, enters the political world, and tries to take over our enshrined in blind justice constitutionally defined freedom, we draw a red line and call out religion and the MAGA cult as morally corrupt and intellectually bankrupt.

Evangelicals have joined the MAGAs to wage war on democracy. They will replace democracy with autocracy and theocracy. The only freedoms exist in their dogma.