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ARE WE ELECTING A HEAD PREACHER or a PRESIDENT? A Christian Mullah, messiah, pope? WTF?!
Has the GOP turned into a Religious movement? Birth control, and now PROPER THEOLOGY? WTF?!
DearAbby
(12,461 posts)When did the GOP turn into a religious revival movement? This isn't like any Presidential campaigns I remember. This is creepy.
Still Sensible
(2,870 posts)amounts of money and win elections by aligning with them.
The GOP was a perpetually minority party following the Great Depression... for five decades! They had not been able to win majorities in either chamber and only elected two presidents--war hero and centrist Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. The latter only won because LBJ's presidency was mired in the war. Wallace's third party candidacy almost gave Humphrey the win anyway, but the stage was set for the "Dixiecrats" to go to the dark side.
The civil rights movement led southern and other bigots to the republican fold... then lo and behold the Roe decision led to the GOP discovery that their candidates could raise never before seen boatloads of campaign cash, with the help of fundamentalist churches.
The GOP/Hooveresque agenda for big business, anti-labor, pro-banking and fuck the poor was simply a loser by itself. Nixon started this evolution with his "southern strategy" reaction to the civil rights movement. By the time Reagan came around, the GOP had figured out that climbing in bed with the religious right gave them an alliance that could win elections.
Unfortunately, those wins in the last three decades have led to much of the Hooveresque agenda being enacted. The incredibly conservative Supreme Court and decisions like Citizens United have only been possible because the GOP jumped all-in with the religious right.
DearAbby
(12,461 posts)the picture of that all male panel discussing my right to healthcare, and they didn't allow women to speak on their own behalf.
Koch brothers aren't wealthy enough to erase that memory, there is no amount of money in the world that would erase that memory.
butterfly77
(17,609 posts)they have been doing this a long time,even before then., During the eighties this is when they started killing abortion doctors, and tell us they were for life.
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)It doesn't have to be a valid issue, nothing else has worked for them up to now.
Just something they can use to point their sanctimonious fingers at Obama with.
DearAbby
(12,461 posts)The Republican base isn't looking for a President, they want a junkyard dog who can chew up Obama and spit him out. It's about ABO, anyone but Obama.