The Republican Party over decades has served as an ineffectual doorstop towards a door swinging wide open to limiting the freedom of religion and approaching outright persecution.
Experts agree that five stages of a coming persecution can be identified:
(1) The targeted group is stigmatized; its reputation is attacked, possibly by mocking it and rejecting its values.
(2) Then the group is marginalized, or pushed out of the mainstream of society, with deliberate efforts to limit and undo its influence.
(3) The third stage is to vilify the group, viciously attacking it and blaming it for many of society’s problems.
(4) Next, the group is criminalized, with increasing restrictions placed on its activities and eventually even its existence.
(5) The final stage is one of outright persecution.
Many commentators believe the United States is now exiting stage three, and moving into stage four. Canada is firmly in Stage 4.
I think we’re firmly in stage 4.
I think you have the Progressives play book. Reviewing the steps one by one, I can see the actions of each step as they were implemented. Covertly, not overtly, each step was implemented as silently as possible.
Our constitution has been overrun because of generations of lazy complacent parents who let decades of children be indoctrinated in atheistic socialism by our atheistic socialist public school system. A system which was deliberately created not for education, but for indoctrination into atheistic socialism which. The effects of which are evident in every aspect of American life now.
There is no easy way out and we have good reason to question whether it is altogether too late to effectively change course before we are past the point of no return.