On the most recent Tucker Carlson show, the guest advanced the idea that the main problem of religion in America is that churches don’t have enough government oversight of their finances. Tucker eagerly embraced this idea.
Can the people who keep insisting that Tucker is not liberal explain which branch of conservatism supports more government interference in religion? Not only would we need to throw away the US Constitution to introduce this government oversight over the affairs of churches, we’d open an era of future liberal governments punishing the faithful over the aspects of their religious teachings that contradict progressivist dogma. If you think this is in any way conservative, you must be on drugs.
The reason why government should control church finances, this guest claims, is that churches are corrupt. So our famously non-corrupt government should take over. We’ve truly arrived at the heights of conservative thinking with this kind of reasoning.
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He just says what his sponsors tell him to.
Expect that’s a trial balloon, and if it fails to receive sufficient backlash, we’ll see more of it from other sources.
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The whole idea is downright scary. And to hear it aired at such a massively popular and supposedly conservative outlet is just the limit.
I’ve seen a lot of people express outrage about what Tucker said on this episode about Trump but whatever. Trump will finish his term in a couple of years. But how is it not obvious that the next step in this project is to destroy the churches that don’t conduct gay weddings and glorify abortion? How is that not much scarier than whatever he said about Trump?
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Certain factions have always had church tax-exempt status in their sights. And right now they are butthurt that the .gov took away their “you can’t stump for politicians from the pulput” rule as a condition of tax-exempt status. It was a very effective bit of selective censorship for a very long time.
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https://x.com/i/status/2041312617717813468
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I guess Islam is not one of those corrupt religions that need government oversight. Yay.
There was also this bizarre moment in the show where the guest mocked an Evangelical church he visited because they have an old, basic coffee machine. Then he said that Christianity is socialist.
If all this is conservatism, then I have no idea what I’m even doing here.
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“If all this is conservatism, then I have no idea what I’m even doing here”
I know the feeling, which is one reason I don’t identify as either liberal or conservative. Ideology is ok as an intellectual exercise but it’s terrible guide to real life problems.
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I think that in this particular case we can simply acknowledge the obvious fact that Tucker is no longer a conservative.
He went on and on in this episode how Trump’s plan to bomb civilian infrastructure in Iran would be a war crime. This is after years of applauding Russia doing exactly that in Ukraine. What is the difference between Ukraine and Iran other that Ukrainians are white? Is this simply a knee-jerk liberal belief that white people have no value? Taken in conjunction with everything else he’s been expressing, what is the argument that he’s not liberal?
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