re: Politics is the new religion

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The geographic heart of American leftism is in the New England states. I doubt that there are many on here who would dispute this. I’ll not deny that the left coast is now a powerful epicenter of the left and maybe even ascendant these days, but New England was there first and it was there the hardest.

This goes right back to the days of the Puritans who were of course, very religious and who came to America expressly for the purpose of creating a city on the hill and bringing the kingdom of God into being. They had the blasphemous idea that they first had to create the kingdom before it would come into being. By the time of the American Revolution the explicitly religious impulse had largely burned itself out and they were transitioning to becoming universalists and Unitarians. But the idea of improvement remained. The idea that the world was imperfect and that the imperfection could be cured and must be cured by their actions remained.

The first American wrong that had to be cured before we could become a perfect society was slavery, of course. And abolitionism as centered in New England. Then it was temperance. And so on and so on and so on. In the 20th century communist ideology found a ready foothold and easily fused with this idea that mankind must be improved and sins must be purged continually.

It can be explained better than I just did. But, what I said used to be well known. You can read southern newspaper editorials from the years leading up to and during the civil war and they are full of references to the puritans and their intolerance.

America has and always has had a Yankee problem. The New England Yankee has been on a mission to make the country over in his image from day one. They’ll never stop agitating for “improvement”. They’ll never stop seeing those who disagree with them as “sinful” and “evil”. And it will never be enough. Just like the original Puritans would have never brought in the Kingdom of God, their ideological descendants will never reach social utopia.

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