I remember a few years ago, religious conservatives and social (i.e. not religious) conservatives seemed to be in agreement on countless issues. Hell, I remember having numerous religious conservatives approve of me saying that I may be a non-believer, but I would defend their right to worship how they chose, because we agreed on the important things. They shared the same views, they would just come at them from a different starting point (religious conservatives would come at it from the starting point of their faith, societal conservatives would come at it from a starting point of their own sense of right and wrong). But in the past few months I've noticed that religious conservatives have taken to attacking anyone--conservative, republican, or otherwise--who doesn't share their belief system and/or religion. I don't really understand this, as the only thing it's doing is driving people away from the conservative/republican side, and pushing them into either just abstaining from voting, or refusing to participate in any political discourse, which won't exactly solve problems, as we need every person that we can get to defend our society against the degenerates that are trying to destroy it.
Did Trump "losing" in 2020 really fracture the right that badly? I'm not sure that's the case, because this is something that I've only really seen come to the forefront in the past year or so.
I don't know what to make of it. It's honestly beginning to seem like some people on the right are laser focused on becoming the weird puritans of the 90s who were mocked to no end and did more harm to conservative values than they did to further them.
And before anyone accuses me of saying that religious people should embrace atheism or give up their own faith, that's not what I'm getting at at all. I'm merely saying that if we want conservative values and common sense to come back to society, we need to fight for that and not fight each other. If there needs to be any bickering between different "factions" on the right, I think we'd all be better off if we did that after the psychotic leftists are removed from the picture.
There seems to be this crazy purity spiral that's forming on the right, and I'm afraid that what's going to happen is that we're going to all become so focused on our own particular brand of conservatism that we're going to lose sight of the big picture, and we're going to end up losing our society to radical leftists.
I'm still dead set on fighting against the degenerate leftists in society. I don't foresee myself leaving this fight anytime soon, mainly because I don't need anyone's approval to stand up for the things that I believe in. But not everyone is like me, and if we drive those people away, we're never going to win another election, after all a vote is a vote. And then it doesn't matter if you were a religious conservative or societal conservative, your values are going to vanish from our society just like every other conservative/Republican's values.
It has nothing to do with "non religious", and has everything to do with the right finally being tired of the kind of people who put political expediency above moral governance.
If you aren't civilization > civility, then you're fake right.
The problem with putting political expediency so low beneath moral governance is that, if you end up losing all of your political power, your morality is eventually outlawed and censored by the winners. I'm not going to sit here and argue that moral governance has no place within republicanism, that would be an incredibly silly viewpoint to have, but you have to understand that you could be the most moral person in the world...if the entire government is run by leftists who hate you, then all the morality in the entire universe won't stop them from destroying your way of life and your family and your friends. Being morally righteous and morally correct won't stop leftist perverts from pumping children full of hormones, or cutting the breasts off of teenage girls, or erasing every last bit of our history. We don't have to be on opposite sides simply because you go to church and I don't. As long as we're both trying to stop these perverted psychos on the extreme left, we should look at one another as brothers in arms.
Every major failure of the right in the past century, has been allowing a moral failure, thus giving the left more ground in the long term.
Take the Reagan amnesty for example. Had he done the morally correct thing and not compromised with communists, the United States would have about fifty million less Mexicans in it right now, nevermind all the present day illegals who came here hoping for another one.
Every time you compromise with the left, you sacrifice a chunk of the future. Your supposed scenario of losing? Already taking place. Christianity is outlawed in all but name, because you can't actually practice it without bumping into a dozen different "hate speech" laws.