The DNC Gestapo?
I don't know what that is, but I get your general point.
Why did they close the churches?
One, all through the history of this country, Republicans and Democrats have worshipped God in the same building at the same time. They had no choice but to concede each others' humanity. Face to face, forced to be civil, they are more likely to look for commonalities and solutions than put chips on shoulders and draw lines in sand.
Two, the government doesn't just want us to think it's better at helping people out than we are at helping each other, it wants us to forget we even can help each other.
Three, that sense of community and faith combined makes many things possible. Without it, how do people realize their common power? I remember when a wide variety of churches decided Nestlēs needed to stop telling women worldwide their crappy formula was better for baby than breast milk.
When anyone anywhere any time wonders if submitting to the present "system" is more intolerable than fighting in your own streets, they weigh the best case scenario they can carve out for themselves than the bloody price they pay to possibly get something better. And some have a god complex that deprives them of a conscience, and Left or Right go around muttering "there ought to be a law" like @
Swordsmyth. Others realize you can only get as much liberty as you give.
Is it a coincidence that this time and these increasingly intolerable conditions coincide with the decline in churches? Or is that the very accomplishment that emboldened them? Because it used to be that when American churches agreed to be disobedient, the ground shook.
I treat my neighbors well. When I disagree with them, I do it politely, and explain my thinking calmly and clearly. And I try to be smart enough to know what to omit.
They can gauge the temperature of people, and turn up the heat slowly. I can too. I can turn them using their own language. That helps keep them from jumping.
Be nice to your neighbors. Mow their lawn, if you have time. It's not that difficult to be more pleasant and helpful than the government is. What did Jesus do?
Churches stand up and take matters in their hands. Matters like investing the time to turn elections into mass community meetings, where no one leaves until everyone saw the issue decided. A bloodless revolution would be nice about November of next year. That would be the way to have one.
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