No wonder conservative politics and religion go so good together:

[HardWorkingDem]

Call me whatever, but over the weekend something just hit me when it comes to why conservative politics and religion go hand in hand so well: They both are based in fear.

Fear of sin, fear of going to hell, fear of gays, fear of sodomy, fear of those different and on and on and on. Just like conservative politics. And then you get to throw in the "godless" aspect of money and capitalism, and it's no wonder there has been an ample amount of fuel for these fear mongers.

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Yes - they are both based on looking at a world of scarcity.

Liberals - political and theological - see a world of abundance.

An ideology of scarcity, however, requires constant fear - fear of change, fear of someone getting more than you (because there's not enough to go around!), fear of running out of what one has, fear of any other worldview (because an ideology of scarcity even demands that ideologies themselves must be scarce - preferably only one possible ideology: the ideology of the conservative shitbag espousing it).

And an ironic sidebar of this is that those things which actually are in scarcity - the planet, the oil, air - the conservatives refuse to see as scarce, but instead see as endless and eternal. Probably because seeing the truth would mean giving room to an opposing ideology that their (the conservative's) lifestyle might not be correct.

[terisan]

2. I think FDR's "All we have to fear is fear itself" helped people avoid messianic "solutions". nt

to the Great Depression.

Maybe it is time for that depression-era slogan to come round again. the times have some similarities.