Religion in Schools and Harris Thinks Trump is a Communist Dictator. Life in the US

Richard Mellor

There is so much evidence that politics in the US is infantile that it's hard to gauge what are the worst examples of it. Kamala Harris said Monday night that the United States is “…dealing with a communist dictator in the White House.” A “communist” dictator?

 

Does Ms Harris have any understanding of the difference between communism and fascism? It’s beyond me. Perhaps it’s because the US public is more at home with fascism than communism. One thing I do know is that an atheist (and Communism is associated with atheism while fascism is not) has a far less chance of becoming president than a sex offender or felon for example. We know that’s the case because we have one sitting in the White House at the moment who is both. 

 

As we’re on the subject of the degeneration of US society, democratic rights and free speech, it’s important to recognize that right wing Christian nationalism is becoming more entrenched in government than ever. Religion has always been an integral part of the state. Catholicism, once the religion of the European aristocracy until the reformation when the rising capitalist class needed to make some adjustments to the belief system, is now one of the world’s two main religions representing the interests of the capitalist class.

 

It is a dangerous moment when organized religion, no matter which kind, begins to gain more and more political power. In the aftermath of the murder of one of the bright young stars of the right wing Christian Nationalist movement the efforts to embed organized religion in to the state apparatus is intensifying. 

 

Ryan Walters, Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Schools is proposing having Turning Point USA chapters in all the state’s high schools. 

 

“I am very excited to announce a partnership with @TPUSA to establish chapters in ALL Oklahoma high schools. Radical leftist teachers’ unions have dominated classrooms for far too long, and we are taking them back,” Walters said Tuesday in a post on the social platform X. (From The Hill)

 

This is a dangerous precedent and also a recipe for disaster. It will lower the already dismal level of education we have here in the US and also cause conflict between the many different religious organizations and views in US society. Religious instruction has no place in public education and no place in politics or is state legislatures. People’s belief in god or a creator is a purely personal matter and should remain that way.

 

Enough said.