re: #130 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Since 1991 they have set out to embrace all the worst aspects of it. And it is no wonder that the GOP admires Putin, he runs a the very kind of state they want to see here: authoritarian, plutocratic, miltaristic, patriarchal, xenophobic, homophobic and theocratic.

Only difference is that they prefer Fundamentalist Protestantism over Russian Orthodoxy.

Because with their choice of fundamentalism over orthodoxy, they get a genuine American religion - one that requires them to literally do nothing and change nothing in order to feel like they’re going to heaven. The Orthodox, for their faults, at least require you to go through the motions.