It is no secret that there are a bunch of right, righteous, Republican rascals trying to take over our government and install a theocracy modeled according to their interpretation of the Bible.In such a theocracy, because they define the United States as a "Christian" nation, any constitutional barriers to that would be removed, as would any constitutional barriers to the melding of church and state. Laws would be based on the Old Testament which means that homosexuals, adulterers and other biblical miscreants would receive the full brunt of godly punishment - some Reconstructionists have even called for the death penalty.
With the meltdown of the Bush presidency, the recession which has arrived in spite of Bush's denials, the ungodly war in Iraq which seems never-ending and sucks up huge gobs of borrowed monies, the program of the Reconstructionists or Dominionists, as they are sometimes called, has been delayed slightly.
Kevin Phillips, in his book, "American Theocracy," notes how [in the late 1980s and 1990s] the Republican party emerged "as a powerful vehicle for religiosity and church influence, while state Republican parties, most conspicuously in the South and Southwest, endorsed so-called Christian nation party platforms.
"These unusual platforms, ... set out in varying degrees the radical political theology of the Christian Reconstructionist movement, the tenets of which range from using the Bible as a basis for domestic law to emphasizing religious schools and women's subordination to men."
Phillips points to the 2004 platform of the Texas Republican Party. "It reaffirms the status of the United States as a 'Christian nation,' regrets 'the myth of the separation of church and state,' calls for abstinence instead of sex education, and broadly mirrors the reconstructionist demand for the abolition of a large group of federal agencies and departments, including the Energy Department and the Environmental Protection Agency."
If the Texas Republicans had had their way in 2004, the United States as we know it would have ceased to exist. That bothers me just a little bit!
The danger posed to our Democracy by these right, righteous, Republican rascals is no idle threat. And while the advancement of their cause may be delayed, it is not stopped.
Democracy is extremely fragile. It's destruction and replacement by right-wing Christian fascism, while not certain, is certainly possible. That, too, can happen here!
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There are many people that approve. There are many that have no clue as to what is happening and never will. They like strong words and never check to see if anything backs up the words. They voted for Bush twice and still think he is right. They do not want to be bothered with facts. They simply love a strong speaker.
Now we have another strong speaker making promises with no clue as to how he will make his dreams come true. We had Jimmy Carter once make promises he couldn’t deliver on. The electorate is easily sucked in by salesmen. I am not sure how this trend will end. Our President boldly ignores laws and he has enough backers to get away with it. We do not have a choice until the next election and then will be shooting craps. It is likely that two states will not get their delegates seated, so we will never know if the winner won. I will probably not vote for Obama but might not get the opportunity to vote for Clinton. I do not want to see the philosophy of Bush continued with McCain, who I admire as a person but not as a law maker.
I have never felt my vote didn’t get counted but now I wonder.
There are some months ahead. Maybe it will all be made clearer in time.
Bob Poris
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