A top ally for the Republican Party’s nominee for Pennsylvania’s governor has now explicitly said that Jews should not be welcome into the American conservative movement unless they convert to Christianity.
The Jerusalem Post reports that Andrew Torba, the founder of the far-right Gab social media website that Mastriano has used to promote his campaign for governor, said recently that he believes American conservatism should be for Christians only, and that conservatives should reject right-wing Jewish figures such as Ben Shapiro and Dave Rubin.
“We don’t want people who are Jewish,” he said. “We don’t want people who are, you know, nonbelievers, agnostic, whatever. This is an explicitly Christian movement because this is an explicitly Christian country. We’re not saying we’re going to deport all these people or whatever. You’re free to stay here. You’re not going to be forced to convert or anything like this because that’s not biblical whatsoever. But you’re going to enjoy the fruits of living in a Christian society […]
This is NOT what I was taught when growing up in a church!
Since childhood, more than 60 years ago, I have been waiting for the other shoe to fall — the shoe, more like a boot, that contains the kind of antisemitism that pushes a movement forward toward another Holocaust. In these words of Mastriano we find the seeds of the next unfortunate, cyclical, and therefore predictable. event.
The GOP suffers from a serious pathology of the brain. It’s conditioning, as Krishnamurti used to call it. There are ideals, ideas, and beliefs that drive fearful minds toward mass suffering and ruin. The most unfortunate thing of all is that minorities cannot realize that they are all being manipulated to pit themselves against other minorities. Religion and politics are divisive, pernicious belief systems, and beliefs are images formed by conditioning of the mind. One cannot use logic as a means to pierce the tough skin of this conditioning, and it seems the only resolution is time itself.
When you believe there is only one religious truth, you have it, and many others do not, the implications are totalitarian when you seek power to promote it.
I agree with you, Gus, that spells totalitarianism without a doubt.
Whoops! They’ve just launched another anti GOP voting bloc!