I don’t know how many of you have seen the video of the first group of insurrectionists inside the chamber, reminding each other to be respectful, going through papers in desks, taking photos of them, looking for the smoking gun evidence of election theft. There’s a part that’s kind of funny where they get confused by them …Ted Cruz was going to object to Arizona… traitor.
But there is a part of this video that I want everyone to see, and I haven’t seen a lot of news stations play this part. At eight minutes in, they do this toxic hyper-masculine prayer group thing. It last a minute and twenty seconds and everyone in the room joins in. It confirms what I’ve suspected, that the people in the core group are religious zealots. BTW, this type of breaking into spontaneous prayer is a thing among the Pence / Meadows /Pompeo crowd as well.
I put this in another thread a few days ago — “What’s next for the insurrectionists, or something like that, but I’m going to repost it here.
My immediate concern is the fundamentalist groups around the country that expose some variation of an “End Times” theology. They’re tightly bonded groups of people that live in close proximity to one another. They share beliefs and lifestyles that are outside of the mainstream and rely heavily on their religious leaders to instruct them how to live in accordance with God’s will.
I’m going link to a post I wrote a few days ago in another thread that goes into more detail.
If any of them believe this is the holy war moment they’ve been waiting for, that could spell trouble. If a lot of them do, that could spell big trouble.
I think, in most cases, their leadership will try to call them off and in most cases they will succeed. These groups are generational cults, they aren’t a bunch of crazies that found each other. These are just people, indoctrinated from birth, doing nothing more than living the lives they were born to. They’ve been waiting for this apocalypse for generations and it’ll be easy to go back to waiting. I think most of the leaders will see it’s bad for the bottom line. People that really believe something can still grift.
But there may be a handful of leaders that don’t back off, and a handful of men that won’t believe that God did a 180 degree turn, and they may think their leader has been corrupted by the Deep State. Some of them want to believe this.
Unfortunately, I don’t think it’ll take much violence to register an economic impact, especially if it’s random. I keep coming back to the hit that the DC area took during the 2-3 week spree of the Beltway sniper.
But in the long run, the biggest danger isn’t from a spate of terror attacks. It’s from the vast moneyed underground looking to turn the US into a right wing Christian theocracy, gradually and bloodlessly. Ted Cruz, the Devos/ Prince and the Mercer dynasties. The dozens, if not hundreds, of advocacy groups with words like Faith, Freedom and Family in their name. Pence and the Prayer Breakfast Gang.
That’s really a subject for another time, but I think the events of the past few weeks may have dealt a real blow to this second group, especially if they view, as they should, all the STOP THE STEAL disinformation as part of the greater insurrection plot. Silver lining, maybe.