Who presents the most pressing internal threat to America - Theocrats, Racists or Oligarchs?

[MisterP]

44. a lot of people today seem to think that the current politics of "Jayzus will throw Arks from Heaven

if the seas rise (unless you're queer or Irish)"

in the mid-70s there was a huge backlash movement--well-funded in accordance with the Powell Memo: even pharmacists turned against "asking locals what plants they use" as woo-woo; so the neocons, the televangelists, and a whole spectrum of other reactionaries are all part of the same movement: after all, the media and national politics would never listen to

in the 60s America worried that God was dead of particle physics, Americanization, and just having a lot of appliances: even in the early 70s people who took this "Hhhrist" guy (is that how you pronounce it? Kryste?) seriously--theism was supposed to disappear with time, like an isotope, and now it had a few popular songs like the Doobie Brothers--they were still hippie Jesus Freaks, seen as closer to the Premies than to Father Mackenzie in his Googie cathedral in the burbs; the mid-decade revival of conservative and right-wing Christian political influence was a full-on system shock

racism of course has been baked into the system since Bacon's Rebellion, but since the 70s it's become subtler--at the national level it's not so much Wallace-style "my opponent wants those types to come into your neighborhood" (which you still see really strongly with anti-transit and but shifted more "do you know what X people say about your kind?" or "y'know, Y people are coming for your jobs"--and then "people who beat up on Z people are against free trade--let's pass it to spite them"; it's common coin of the realm