Waking Up
So the Religious Right (formerly confused with "Christian") is beginning to get the picture. Just beginning. Team Dubya has exploited them as stooges for votes, promising to roll back social change while delivering only to the corporate interests that are the administration's actual masters. Businessmen have a good sense of how unwilling most Americans are to pretend that we're living in 1950, and they know that any real attempt to promote a reactionary social program will inevitably put a spotlight on what's really going on: the transfer of public wealth to private interests. The ruse - mobilizing the Religious Right's support without satisfying their demands - couldn't work indefinitely, but I'm very sorry that it's still working, however badly.
Let's hope that the disappointed Religious Right does what it usually does after defeat: retire to its tents in the desert.
For a different, if not contradictory, take on this story, visit Joe.My.God.
