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Originally Posted by Brujah
The Republican base is shrinking and splintering, maybe even as a result of this religious merge. Still, do you think they have a chance anymore, if not for the religious right?
Is it the move toward the far right or far left? What's so wrong with moderates? It sounds like a nice compromise to me.
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Well if you look back at the political movement of the Right Wing in the last 20 years, they eased into a more hate based Religious Reich in the Bush years with Karl Rove really pushing that movement but as Bush exited the scene the Religious Right was already losing it's grip because I think the average American was finally starting too see they were going to the extremes.
When it became a contest for the post Bush era, it was almost as if the Religious Right exited the stage with the Tea Party (even more focused on hate) taking the center stage with almost the blink of an eye. Don't even think for a second that the Tea Party was some free form movement that took place in the grass roots like say Occupy Wall street did.
The Tea Party was very much IMO a organized coup of the right-wing activism groups, IMO it's just a re-badged updated version of the Religious Right. I think they just manged to effectively tone down the "God" in front of everything and try to refocus the "appearance" of a bull shit inspired small govt "front", while still catering to the mentality of the Religious Reich.
This move to the Tea Party allows to to be more hateful and threatening as you see all the racism with-in that movement, that they couldn't have gone mainstream with under Religious Right name tag. IMO the Religious Right = Tea Party.. They are of the same source so I think as long as the Right Wing can focus that kind of continual hate movement they will still have a strong backing, it will just have a new name in 4 or 8 years once everyone gets sick of the tea party. Just in time for election season.