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Perhaps the single most profound change in our political culture over the last 30 years has been the transformation of conservatism from a political movement, with all the limitations, hedges and forbearances of politics, into a kind of fundamentalist religious movement, with the absolute certainty of religious belief.
I don't mean "religious belief" literally. ... In short, what we have in America today is a political fundamentalism, with all the characteristics of religious fundamentalism and very few of the characteristics of politics.
Apparently neither of you read the column. It has nothing to do with being religious. You can be an atheist and still be one of the new "GOP Faithful" who treats politics as a religion.
So basically, the author of the article uses buzz words like religion, which have obvious political impacts, to discuss a parties faithlike qualities?
Seems to me its propoganda and another stereotypical piece interested in resorting to illogical debate through division.
Claiming that the "right" is any more of a religion than the "left" is silly. I suppose that the blind faith in an omnipotent Godvernment by the "left" is not a religion. What else could the belief that governmnet thugs are any more noble than business thugs be attributed to other than a religious fantasy. I am not defending the "right", just pointing out that seeing it as the only "religion" of the two sides is ridiculous.
I think this was true at one point. I think it started in 1996 with Ralph Reed and the Christian Coalition and ended with the 2008 Presidential election. The economy and war turned a lot of people off and many who voted on family and religious values voted for Democrats in many states. Likewise I'm seeing a shift among Republicans to get away from the Religious right and Bush politics. People forget that George W. Bush was very un-Republican like with regard to spending. Bush was not conservative with regards to social spending.
I know that I and many Republicans are looking to turn the page and are looking toward 2012 when we will have extremely educated, intelligent and fiscally conservative Republicans who are less about Evangelical values and more about Fiscal conservatism. Candidates like Mitt Romney and Bobby Jindal come to mind.
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