JohnG@lt wrote:
Turquoise wrote:
JohnG@lt wrote:
Well, considering that the Democrats are trying to do far more damage to what makes America, America than Bush could've ever dreamed up... I'd say the anger is justified. Socialists are an extreme majority in this country, 10% at most, and yet they are the ones in the drivers seat right now. There is going to be an extreme backlash. Get ready for another McCarthy era.
Well, if rule by ideological minorities (which I believe you meant to type) is what bothers you, then Bush's evangelical crew was the same way. Evangelicals might make up more of America than "socialists", but they are also in the minority.
There's not going to be another McCarthy era, but there will always be rednecks with paranoia.
The evangelicals are just as wrong, but relatively harmless. Social wrongs can be fixed with the stroke of the pen by the next Congress or President. Economic ills affect generations. Obama and Friends are fucking this country over in the long term (and yes, Bush did too with Medicare Part D).
Social wrongs like Jim Crow laws? It took more than just a stroke of the pen on that. The same goes for slavery.
I'm not suggesting that being anti-gay is as bad as those two things, but I think you're greatly underestimating the "social ills" that evangelicals create.
In addition to this, the dispensationalist side of evangelicals is a large part of why we get involved in wars we shouldn't be part of and why we nearly unconditionally support Israel.
Again, I think you greatly underestimate the damage caused by religious nutjobs in this country.