RE: seattle.pink/@mxchara/11697246…
I'd like to take this specific matter up again, the Dick #Nixon problem. The U.S. public has been invited to be far more forgiving and charitable towards Richard Nixon than he deserves. This was a policy right from the start; the GOP scheme to insure Nixon's pardon has been considered a sound resolution to the whole affair and that is clearly wrong.
An unholy fixation on executive clemency as a political weapon has invaded U.S. #politics thanks to the Nixon pardon. This has a moral dimension: according to the moral standards of Christofascism, a Trump pardon is exactly equivalent to a plenary indulgence.
(cont'd)
Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen (@mxchara@seattle.pink)
Nixon was *unusually* cheerless and grumpy because he had a residual conscience, a memory of being touched by the faithful spirit of his Quaker mother, who referred to her children in the old Quaker way--avoiding the overfamiliar "you" and sticking w…Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen (seattle dot pink)
Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen
in reply to Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen • • •The Republicans have Catholicised the U.S. government to an enormous extent. It's a weird doublethinkful role Catholicism plays for mainstream U.S. Christianity which is devoted to an antic and profoundly broken sort of Protestantism which is willing to work with a certain sort of Catholic, a sedevacantist heretical Catholic or "tradcath".
Hence the U.S. judiciary and the Supreme Court especially have acquired the flavor of a priesthood, people imbued by the Christofascist Jesus with life-or-death ex cathedra powers. At the top are nine old
menI mean persons. Nine old persons.(cont'd)