Want a repeat of the Dark Ages? Just put religion in charge of the government. Donald Trump and JD Vance, who recently converted to Catholicism, are the political leaders of a movement to convert America’s form of governance from a secular democratic republic into a fundamentalist white Christian ethnostate. In this, they’re joined by the six Catholic Republican justices on the Supreme Court who’ve already imposed their church’s religious doctrine on the rest of us with their Dobbs decision. Trump’s doing this to bring in the fundamentalist Protestant and Catholic vote; Vance is apparently a true believer. In both cases they threaten to throw America into a new Dark Age resembling, in a worst case scenario, the rule of the mullahs who replaced Iran’s secular democracy with a theocratic state. It’s useful to look at what happened to Europe when, around the 6th century, the newly formed Catholic Church took over most of that continent and ruled it with an iron fist for at least nine centuries, an era we refer to as “the Dark Ages.”
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