< rejection or prejudice against people for their ethnic and cultural
identity, race, language, sexuality, gender, religion, physical
ability... Many of the people who identify as "right wingers",
conservatives, etc, are morally able and socially fit to rise above
that oppressive stuff if they find themselves within a context that
encourages diversity in comfortable, non-confronational ways>>

This is the perennial problem as I see it: Fear. Because people are infused with mega-doses of paranoia-inducing propaganda, from the "War on Drugs" to the "War on Crime" to the "War on Illegal Aliens" to the "War Against the Femi-Nazis" to the "War Against the Homosexual Agenda" to the "War on Terror," we find ourselves doing constant battle from within against those who have managed to extricate themselves from one facet of the Empire's fear-mongering, but who are still unconscious of other facets.

This is why all of the mission statements and vision statements and manifestos of our collectives/affinity-groups/organizations MUST include a section about the consciousness of our members.

This is NOT a call for thought police!!!

Rather, it is a call for eternal RESISTANCE to the REAL thought-police. We are not free unless our consciousness is free. Liberated consciousness understands the forces that manipulate and coerce and how that manipulation and coercion are accomplished. It understands the ideological enemy of liberated consciousness.

This posture will put us at odds with the rancid religiosity of the right-wing, but it will place us squarely in the camp of all the Prophets who did battle with Empire in ages gone by.

Thoughts welcome.