Alan: As contemporary conservatives go, Prager is relatively innocuous.
However, his support for Trump, coupled with his idée fixe that same-sex marriage "signifies the decline of Western Civilization" reveal the twin conservative traits of spouting platitudinous abstractions while choosing to elect a flesh-and-blood distillation of decadence, a "man" who champions every Deadly Sin but sloth.
More generally, Prager's opposition to the Affordable Care Act (the most watered-down, lacklustre approach to "universal healthcare coverage" that Obama could concoct and still maintain hope of getting some Republicans on board) brings to mind John Kenneth Galbraith: "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
Selfishness suffuses the conservative psyche right down to its cornerstone religious disposition, a mindset clinging to doctrine-and-dogma as the surest path to the consolation of do-nothing "salvation assurance," while having an anorexic's appetite for "lifting the fallen" and "healing the sick."
But don't take it from me.
Read Prager's Wikipedia entry: his decision to support Trump is blood-curdling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Prager
Contemporary conservatives shun the findings of Darwin but are zealous to hurl every "undeserving" n'er-do-well into the bloody maw of Social Darwinism.
To be clear, conservatives have admired oligarchy since The Founding Fathers and have never believed in "one person, one vote."
They believe in poll taxes, property ownership, unpassable literacy tests and, when formal litmuses fail to get the job done, they resort to brass knuckle voter suppression. (Since Facebook no longer permits me to post links from my "dangerous" blog, I encourage you to google "Compendium Of Best Pax Posts About Racism, White Supremacy And Voter Suppression.")
It is critical to stop treating the GOP's passion for disenfranchising people-of-color as an anomaly, and to recognize it as dyed-in-the-wool opposition to democratic governance.
You may also be interested in checking out Facebook's new "censorship norms."
"How Facebook Takes On Fake News And Hate Speech"
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