ALABAMA RUNOFF ELECTION: CASE FOR ROY MOORE, RALLIES FOR MOORE, STRANGE

"We are in the grip of a soft totalitarianism which is no less deadly for being soft. Instead of threatening people with prison for having the wrong opinions, it threatens them with unemployment.  If we actually had labor camps and midnight arrests, and state censors sitting in newspaper offices and TV studios, people might notice what was going on.  As it is, they just wonder why everything gets worse and worse and nobody does anything about it."

Peter Hitchens "Mail on Sunday" column September 10, 2017

What Peter Hitchens writes about from his own vantage point in the UK applies to this side of the Atlantic and the Western World in general.   We live under a "soft dictatorship".

If you have the wrong opinion, you risk losing your job.   And quite often, you do lose your job.

One visible victim of this process is Judge Roy Moore.   Moore lost his job twice.  He was removed as Alabama's Chief Justice for putting a Ten Commandments monument in the Supreme Court building and refusing to obey a federal court ruling against it.   Recently he was again removed as Chief Justice after being elected a second time for interdicting a federal district court ruling on gay marriage in Alabama.

The recent hostility to President Trump's condemnation of violence from all sides in Charlottesville and refusal of anyone with one notable exception in  the White House to stand with him in noting the violence of the left-wing elements there speaks volumes as to the kind of "soft totalitarianism" we live under.

In order to force his conformity to this totalitarianism, a joint resolution of the Uniparty (Democrat and Republican) members of Congress was sent for his signature to roundly condemn racists, KKK, neo-Nazis for violence while ignoring the left-wing Antifa violence.

One White House aide agreed with President Trump, Steve Bannon.  But Bannon resigned and now he's supporting Roy Moore over Luther Strange in the primary runoff election next Tuesday.

And when you think that no one else in the White House would share President Trump's accurate observation about events in Charlottesville, that includes Vice President Mike Pence.   Pence is campaigning in Alabama for Luther Strange.

No surprise here.

Pence bowed to the corporatist business elites over a religious freedom bill back in 2015 when he was Governor of Indiana.

Other governors like Bob Jones University graduate Asa Hutchinson in Arkansas followed suit.

Last year Georgia's Governor Nathan Deal, another Republican vetoed a bill specifically designed to protect religious institutions that objected to gay marriage, leaving private business free of any obligations.

In North Carolina, Governor Pat McCrory  vetoed a bill to allow public officials to opt out of gay marriage as a matter of conscience.  McCrory then switched gears to oppose transgender access to restrooms and the corporatists took him out sure enough at election time.

Lets not forget what the Republican "Conservative" legislature in Texas did last month when a special session was called to pass "bathroom protection legislation" to deal with transgender access.    Nothing, absolutely nothing as the effort fizzled.

All of this because of the "soft dictatorship' fueled by major corporations, banks that are as Mr. Peter Hitchens has pointed out in a video presentation "more powerful than sovereign governments'.

Former Alabama Governor Robert Bentley pointed out in an interview with a religious magazine that he could not support Judge Roy Moore's interdiction of gay marriage in Alabama when Moore asked him to help out of fear for the jobs of Alabamians.

Yes, the "soft dictatorship" threatens not just the jobs of individuals, but the jobs of large groups of people in political subdivisions that refuse to bend the knee to political correctness as defined by them.

These same business interests are also the forces of the "Cheap Labor Express" who are the arch enemies of President Donald J. Trump  but big supporters of appointed Senator Luther Strange hoping to take out Roy Moore in next Tuesday's election.

By the way President Trump's campaign rally appearance for Luther Strange has been moved to Friday night from Saturday, a sure sign the White House wants to bury publicity about his "Strange support".

Tonight at 5:30 the debate in the Lincoln-Douglas style between Judge Moore and Senator Strange.

A debate watch party is being held at Union Train Station in Montgomery with a rally afterwards including speakers Governor Sarah Palin, Congressman Louis Gohmert and former White House aide Sebastian Gorka.