Joy looks good in this interview. It is curious to hear her commenting about Hollywood shunning people who don’t toe the line. I really wanted someone to ask her about the Scientology policy of Disconnection right there.
I have to wonder if she knows what she is getting into? The Republican Party has it’s own conservative, libertarian/Tea Party and liberal wings and as we can see they can be about as opposing to each other as the Republican Party is to the Democrat Party. I have wondered if Joy is doing this out of principle or simply “safe pointing” for the Church. By listing off Trump agenda items here she seems to be identifying her own principles which I interpret to be more libertarian, smaller government, limited regulation, America for Americans, etc.
So how does this square politically with the COS? LRH said the best form of government was probably a benevolent dictatorship. Indeed, the behavior of the COS, it’s policies, and LRH’s stated goals for a world government based on Scientology are consistent with this view, albeit in practice Scientology under LRH wasn’t very benevolent. Of course, the problem with all dictatorships is maintaining the “benevolence” in succession.
I realize this is arguable but in my personal opinion Scientology is fundamentally a utopian redistributionist belief system. I was a Democrat when I joined the Sea Org and the notion that we would save the world from a nuclear holocaust and the failures of mankind through personal sacrifice is much more compatible with a Democrat view than the Republican pragmatic view. Republicans are supposed to believe that these problems can be solved through individual freedom, ownership of property and personal opportunity as opposed to group rights, redistribution and collectivism. Indeed, LRH railed against welfare and communism but the Sea Org is literally a commune and because it follows a militaristic model it is more akin to Chinese or Soviet communism than a hippie commune.
So here on one side you have Scientology pitching reward and punishment based purely on productivity and on the other hand it behaves like a communist confiscatory regime. To be a Scientologist you really must have a redistributionist mindset or the IAS donation scheme would never have gone anywhere. If the remaining core support for the Church is based on IAS donations then it’s core constituency are redistributionists according to personal principle. How much has Joy contributed to the IAS? Does she think the US government should use tax dollars to support Scientology front group programs, to instill Scientology techniques in public schools, for mental health treatment, drug rehabilitation, etc.? Should the constitution be revised to adopt Scientology management principles or LRH’s ideas of government?
I get the feeling that I’m watching the law of unintended consequences slowly unfolding before my eyes. If she is just trying to safe point the Church by warming up to Trump she may see the real vindictive nature of leftist Hollywood type elites and this may alienate her truly into the Republican Party. And if she somehow crosses the COS she may get to see them for what they really are and she may go Leah on them and start demanding that their tax exempt status be revoked, only now as a congresswoman, or if she truly adopts fiscally conservative Republican principles then she may see that the COS is a classic dictatorship confiscating resources for exploitation by an elite under the utopian banner of communism.
LRH said a lot of things that sounded great on the surface while behaving completely the opposite. And for those of us who are well versed in what he said, we know he covered his bases by saying things or creating policies which could be used to cancel out something else that he said to suit his interests depending on the circumstances of the moment. Scientologists are essentially students of double speak whether they know it or not. To be a devout Scientologist you must be able to hold two completely opposing ideas in perfect balance.
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http://www.foxbusiness.com/features...y-lose-jobs-for-trump-comments-joy-villa.html
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Villa predicted Cranston will face backlash in Hollywood over his comments
“Oh, they’re going to bash him. I mean, you can’t even be slightly pro-Trump in those circles, I know. In Hollywood it’s ‘you hate Trump and you’re with the group.’ If you say, ‘well, let’s give him a chance,’ they shun you. So he may lose some jobs, even for saying something so conservative as that.”
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