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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 09/22/2007 : 03:49:42
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..... when you go through it.
Mark Moford has some thoughts on the "Godmongers." They are, it seems, on their way out.
Oh, we're not going to lose them all together, no. We're merely going to & are seeing them as a waning, political influence. In brief, and we've all observed it, they've lost their shit. Oh yes, by all means please take a moment to look around, ye who might be feeling a bit hopeful and optimistic right now.
Because indeed, you've got your wonderful and ever-accelerating green movement, your lovely mixed-blessing organic food movement and your rejuvenated attention to solar power and sustainable buildings and organic cotton and fair-trade coffee and clean energy and CFLs and urban recycling and sleek gorgeous modern vibrator design to make hip women of the world swoon.
We've got urban smoking bans and Smart cars and women finally rising to the most powerful positions in the land. We've even got an increasing awareness (BushCo, the Middle East, and China gruesomely excepted) of industrial pollution and global warming, all maybe indicating a subtle but still profound shift away from traditional modes of waste and war and our everlasting thirst for death and all possibly pointing to a happy delicious karmic sea change toward light and health and love for all beings everywhere for all time, as the butterflies and bunnies and birds all hum and smile and sing. Mmm, utopian.
But wait, why stop there? While we're wearing these swell rose-colored glasses of momentary progressive bliss, let us go one big step further.
Because right now, there is perhaps no greater item we as a struggling human ant farm can be grateful for, no single social emetic we can look to for inspiration or hope or a happy tingly sensation in our collective groinal region indicating a possible move away from our long-standing Dick-Cheney-in-hell attitude of shrill bleakness, alarmism and religious righteousness than the simply wonderful implosion of the evangelical Christian right that's happening right now in America.
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The man can surely turn a phrase.
This link can be found in his article and it's at least as interesting: The Evangelical outcasts
by kos
Tue Sep 18, 2007 at 10:28:30 AM PDT
Conservative Evangelicals, angry that women still have control over their own bodies, angry that their prayers aren't foisted on every school child, angry that we don't live in a theocracy, and angry that gays, well, still exist, are claiming they'll be tougher on Republicans this time around.
With the GOP having controlled the White House and the House for the previous six years — and the Senate for the previous four — social conservatives expected much more progress on their agenda in Washington. Although they are happy that Bush has used his veto power to stop an expansion of federal stem cell research, signed a law banning the procedure opponents call “partial birth” abortion and won confirmation of two solid conservatives to the Supreme Court, the Christian right's rank and file say they're frustrated that Washington has not pushed for more-sweeping restrictions on abortion and gay rights.
Meanwhile, the president's support for granting a path to citizenship for those who entered the country illegally has further strained the GOP's relations with the evangelical base — a voting bloc Perkins estimates as one-third of voters in the GOP primaries, enough to make or break any candidate
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 09/22/2007 : 05:28:16 [Permalink]
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Fascinating, Fil. Nothing in human affairs runs in perfect cycles, but one can pretty much count upon a period of extremism ending in this fashion.
The "political" half of the NeoCons, by which I mean the professional pols who have opportunistically latched onto theocratic principles for the sake of fundy support, but are actually worshipers of Mammon, see the writing on the wall. They know that their electoral victories are becoming a thing off the past, as Americans have largely grown educated about, and repulsed by, the atrocities of pious hypocrites. But they also know that there are far too many fundies in the GOP to ignore. They remain hostage to the fundies for now, and must follow their lead or not even get nominated by Republican voters.
The fundies in the GOP react to their lessening political power by demanding an even more extreme agenda. Stupid, politically suicidal, but these are guys who believe in invisible magic men, after all.
The professional pols in the GOP must secretly hate them. But it'll be at least a Presidential election cycle or two before the GOP pols can run the theocratic bastards out, and return the Party its Eisenhower-to-Goldwater spectrum "PaleoCon" roots. The NeoCons always were an unstable coalition of plutocrats and theocrats. Now we see just how unstable.
It all sets up the Republicans for massive defeats, making their 2006 debacle look like a walk in the park. In 2008, there is likely going to be a Democrat in the White House, and solid Democratic majorities in both Houses. Maybe some progressive legislation will finally get passed for a change, get the budget balanced, and replace retiring or dying Supremes with more progressive or at least moderate types.
And maybe the US will finally sign and ratify the Kyoto Accord, and begin large-scale retooling for a fossil fuel free economy!
Most of the world will probably sleep more comfortably at night, knowing the US will be less likely to start irrational wars.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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| Edited by - HalfMooner on 09/22/2007 05:33:56 |
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