I'm going to start posting these "editorials" here on the blog more often. I feel that what I want to say is not getting the best exposure in the YouTube comments section.
Well, what choice do any of these semi-sane Republicans have? The party as a whole has spent the last 40 years painting the Democrats as LITERALLY the Army of Satan. I mean every word of that. Many people who are not full-blown fundamentalist/evangelical crazies do not fully comprehend the extent to which right-wing Christianity in this country has penetrated the GOP. They do not want to believe just how crazy the True Believers are. I know. I was thoroughly indoctrinated from 4th grade to my senior year in a small, private Christian school in the Deep South. Not only was the school committed to brainwashing us kids into the most hardcore version of Christianity, but also into a view of the American Civil War that is, to put it charitably, WRONG. In addition, they were devoted to the notions that ONLY the GOP had the correct policy positions and that the only reason FDR instituted the "welfare state" was to addict minorities to government handouts so that the Democrats would maintain a voter base in perpetuity. They told us repeatedly to go home and encourage our parents to vote Republican. Ronald Reagan was the Chosen One to them. The school that I attended is not some exception; there are thousands of such schools in this country. The legacy that those schools, most of them founded in the 1970's, fostered is now bearing fruit: several generations of American voters who think that evolution is a lie, privatization of all government functions is the most efficient way to get things done, and that Satan (Yes, SATAN) works through the Democratic Party. People born into Republican families have as hard a time leaving the party behind as do atheists leaving their family's religions.
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