re: #3 Shiplord Kirel

I remember when these people were dismissed as harmless nuts. Times have changed. They are still nuts, but they are definitely not harmless. It is amazing and bizarre that beliefs like this are a major political force in the 21st century. In a large part of the country, you cannot be elected to office without endorsing their superstition or at least treating it with some kind of mealy-mouthed respectability.

They were harmless nuts until the mid to late 1970s; then they started gaining access to the levers of power.

It’s all been downhill every since.