We Are Blessed

Attending a recent Meffert for Congress event, I noted the candidate's public-speaking repertoire includes we are blessed statements, which introduce some Minnesota marvel.  Erik Paulsen also sticks we are blessed into many a public statement.

We are blessed pretends to be an assertion of upper middle class gentility, but in reality the formulation is popular among the socially-aspiring because it announces mainstream Christian religious belief.  (The phrase amounts to a subconscious order:  Perceive me as being tame!)

When a politician announces his devotion to his mainline sect, he's flattering those who feel prejudice against non-believers, against adherents of minority faiths and against those with exotic or self-authored superstitions.  He's signaling he shares the popular view that--for example--non-belief ought to require apology, groveling and permanent second-class citizenship.

Fuck We Are Blessed.