Dear Ellis: 2 - Conrad

Dear El,

Today Sam Janus collapsed at a campaign event. His press people are just claiming he's exhausted from the travel and constant debates with Martin. Funny that Martin is older, yet seems more able to withstand the pressure perhaps? The online tizzy is that Janus is really gravely ill and hiding it for the election, because Martin simply cannot be allowed into office. People are consistently comparing Martin to a Hitler-type personality, power hungry, bigoted, ruling with the iron fist of fear and violence. Yet others deny the risk - how could one man end up with so much power in a government designed to prevent tyrants or kings, how could one man surpass all the checks and balances within to usurp more than any man before him for 300 years? I myself worry, but I worry about his powerful friends, his Congressional alliances, his zealous supporters eating up every hateful word with which he paints blame upon the lesser loved "labels" of our society. He's already threatened to kick anyone Muslim out of the country, a country who's very first Constitutional Amendment guarantees people here the right to practice the religion of their choosing. His Vice Presidential running mate, Gabe Conrad, is a politician who pushes back against the rights of gays and lesbians, votes against bills that maintain equality for women, and publicly pushes his beloved Christianity as if it should be the new Sharia Law.

Have you ever heard of Dominionists? I was looking into this Gabe Conrad online and he's a scary dude, and a dominionist - a group of people who truly believe that our country should be a Christian country, laws based on the laws of the Bible, where all people should be "saved" in the light of Jesus. Dominionists began the 7 Mountains Movement, citing a piece of the end of days story in Revelations from the Bible. They believe that society has 7 pillars or pieces - Business, Education, Family, Government, Media, Religion, and Arts/Entertainment (although some push Arts/Entertainment in with Media and claim the 7th pillar as the Military). That if a group could gain control of all 7 pillars, they would gain control of everything in society. Control people's money through business, control their laws through government, control the information they do and do not have access to through the media, control opinions of things through their movies and TV shows, control what the children are raised to believe, to question, to know, through education... And if you think about it, right now conservative Christians do control a great deal of those things already. Throughout the primary elections, many people online were refuting information being feed to the masses via "news" outlets, owned by giant corporations with vested interest in the electoral outcomes. Corporations have been exerting power over Congress for years through lobbying and pushing cooperative candidates into House and Senate seats to do their bidding.

Slowly, religion is indeed taking over these pieces of everyday life without the rest of us even realizing it. Slow change is far harder to recognize, therefore highly effective. While we are too busy fighting over sports teams, watching reality television shows, arguing over the validity of common core teaching methods, blaming welfare recipients for our high taxes, and jumping into new wars over oil rights, people we've never met and know not their names are inaudibly taking over each aspect of these 7 mountains while we "sleep".

All this information is very new to me, and only because I happened to start playing around online to look into Gabe Conrad, and only because Janus got sick. I thought to myself, well what would happen if one of these idiots is elected, and their VP ends up president? Shouldn't I know who I'm voting for in that situation? And Conrad looks worse than Martin!!! He's a dominionist, Ellis. How scary is THAT...

Will write again soon,
always,
Anna.

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