re: #142 iceweasel

Catching up on what’s new here— I see we have some new people, yay!

I liked this comment from Renaissance Man:

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Whole comment strikes me as spot on, really. He says “It’s a cult, and one that has been carefully made over the past 15 years or so. Its tenets are based on articles of faith and beliefs that are increasingly at odds with objective reality, and these beliefs are not dependent on reason, factual argument, or contrary evidence”

I’d say that’s right, but that the cult has been crafted over 30 years, and it’s only the last ten or so that it’s taken over the GOP entirely. (in my opinion it was crafted under Reagan quite cynically as a means of lassoing the ‘religious right’, the ‘culture war’, but now the lunatic base (magician apprentices’ broomsticks) are running the show.

30 years would put it exactly when the religious right came to the forefront in the media by way of the televangelists. The year I usually note is 1980. Having “been there” I remember it well when these crackpots made themselves known: Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and others. It was atavistic in nature then as it is now.