A Monolithic “Religious Right”? I Don’t THINK So…
There are those on the left who are utterly convinced that there is this monolithic juggernaut, a vast, right-wing conspiracy with a well-organized system in place, intent on replacing American democracy with a modern-day theocracy. Pat Robertson is usually suggested to be one of the ringleaders of this beast. Well…read this article, folks:
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If there is a “religious right” at all, it certainly isn’t this huge, lock-step conspiracy, as evidenced by Pat’s comments.
Matt Friedeman hits it right on the head; he says, Here’s the dangerous thing: because Robertson has come out of the gate with this pronouncement and because others in the religious right have sort of wondered along the same lines but dared not say what the famous broadcaster has, his admission gives permission for others to do the same.
Well, maybe I’m in the “religious right” and maybe I’m not, but the day I follow Pat Robertson blindly down the path of considering Rudy Giuliani for president is the day after pigs take flight. We lose any semblance of credibility—just as Pat appears to be doing—the day we compromise our principles so far that Rudy becomes even a worst-case option.
This phrase comes from the 1978 "Jonestown massacre" in which most members of the Peoples Temple cult, blindly following their leader Jim Jones, committed suicide by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.
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