17 IX 2025: Inhibition of Speech

The MAGAs want to turn Charlie Kirk into a demigod. Giving divine status to a newly deceased Roman Emperor required a vote of the Senate, but in the current U.S.A. it requires only a base of fanatics and the usual demagogues in the media and on the internet. Am I overstating the case? No. MAGAs have substituted politics for religion. This was easy to do, because their religion had been formed by their politics. So MAGA politics is the new would-be state church. 

So now, you can criticize or make fun of the Deity, saints, clergy men, odd religious practices, etc. all you want, for Freedom of Speech protects blasphemous and sacrilegious speech. But if you disparage the demigod Charlie, MAGA considers it blasphemy, and you can be fired from your job for no cause, be placed on a MAGA hate list, be threatened by MAGA fanatics, and maybe even ICEd.