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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWake up and smell the white supremacist theocracy.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a13518962/roy-moore-is-who-republicans-are/Roy Moore Is Exactly What the Republican Party Is All About
The fact is that Roy Moore is very much who the Republicans are. He is representative of a fanatical splinter of American Protestantism that has accounted for a great deal of the success enjoyed by modern conservatism and the Republican Party for over four decades, and there always has been dark sin at the heart of that success.
The rise of what used to be known as the religious right did not begin with the legalization of abortion. Thats a nice story that the various Bible-banging charlatans would like you to believe. No, the institutions that would nurture and produce the religious right were the white-only Christian academies and universities that sprang up in the South as part of the massive resistance to desegregationthe churchgoing end of that strategy. The religious right was not born out of opposition to Roe v. Wade. It was born out of opposition to Brown v. Board.
The rise of what used to be known as the religious right did not begin with the legalization of abortion. Thats a nice story that the various Bible-banging charlatans would like you to believe. No, the institutions that would nurture and produce the religious right were the white-only Christian academies and universities that sprang up in the South as part of the massive resistance to desegregationthe churchgoing end of that strategy. The religious right was not born out of opposition to Roe v. Wade. It was born out of opposition to Brown v. Board.
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Wake up and smell the white supremacist theocracy. (Original Post)
ashling
Nov 2017
OP
Certainly True. Religion Is The Cover These Racist Hide Behind To Advance Their Agenda
TheMastersNemesis
Nov 2017
#3
Donald's KaKaKa-stocy was evident for all 2 see from day ONE but some thought d REVOLUTION d'be FUN
Madam45for2923
Nov 2017
#4
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)1. Yep.
"Without fastening itself to the enthusiastic remnants of American apartheid, modern conservatism and the modern Republican party never would have become the juggernaut they became..."
Well said, Charles.
Drum
(9,135 posts)2. Kicking & recommending for that title!
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)3. Certainly True. Religion Is The Cover These Racist Hide Behind To Advance Their Agenda
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)4. Donald's KaKaKa-stocy was evident for all 2 see from day ONE but some thought d REVOLUTION d'be FUN