Why are the RW'ers appeasing the Christian Right?

[ck4829]

The RW'ers are the same people who are going around saying "We should never appease the Islamic terrorists".

Of course we should never appease the likes of Osama, but there is a disgusting irony to this all.

The Christian Right has gotten more powerful because the RW appeases them.

Those who say it is unfair to compare the Christian Right to the Islamic terrorists might want to hear me out first.

Does anyone honestly believe the Christian Right will stop with a Marriage Amendment and what else?

We almost gave them just that, and then they will demand for more.

The marriage amendment didn't need to pass, it just needed to enter Congress.

Sure enough, the Christian Right is now going around trying to repeal hate crimes laws that are there to protect GLBT people.

What next? Triangles on the sleeves?

This is a call to all who are reading this.
We need to stop appeasing the Christian Right!

[KharmaTrain]

1. Answer in One Word: Votes

n/t

[OnionPatch]

11. Exactly

It's very simple.

[mhr]

2. Christian Right = Republican Votes = Bush Reelected

It's not higher math.

[Christian dem]

3. I don't know any true Christian that wants to repeal hate crimes laws.

Maybe the false prophets but not a true Christian. Just my opinion.

[ck4829]

5. I agree with you

I am not trying to slam Christians

[AverageJoe]

4. The RWers ARE the Christian Right

and before you go saying that the RWers aren't necessarily Christian, I'm here to say that the Christian Right is about as far from Christ as is the earth to the Andromeda galaxy.

[soleft]

6. What if all centrist Democrats switched parties

If all centrist Democrats switched parties - alot of them are DINO anyway - they could flood the Republican party with pro-choice moderates which would encourage moderate Republicans to abandon their far right fascists members and force them to the outer fringe where they belong.

[RaleighNCDUer]

10. I thought they already did that. nt

[MadHound]

7. Real easy to understand, they need to divide in order to rule

For centuries, ever since Bacon's Rebellion and other biracial uprisings in the late 1600s, the power elite in this country have been able to use race as a wedge issue to keep the underclass divided and at each other's throats.

Back in the fifties and sixties that wedge issue started to fail, with the rise of civil rights and other liberal movements. The underclass, heretofore divided started to look at each other and started to realize that they had more in common with each other than with the power elite who were goading them on. This breaking down of the racial barrier continued throughout the rest of the twentieth century, and while it hasn't been completely successful by any stretch of the imagination, it did weaken that wedge tool enough that the power elite in this country realized that they needed another one right quick.

In the seventies the born again movement started up, and the power elite played along with it. They realized that if they couldn't continue to effectively divide the underclass along racial lines, they'll divide them along religious lines. Previously non-political fundementalist religious groups(who truly believed that politics was an evil of man, and should be shunned by true believers) were whipped into a frenzy, first by Roe v Wade, then by other "threats" to their "godly" lifestyle.

And this has been effective, as we saw with Reagan and Bush II. The power elite in this country will continue to play the religion card as long as it works, just as they played(and still play) the race card when it is deemed effective.

What we need to do is educate people that they are being fooled, that these politicians aren't the godly people they think, but are cynical power mongers, doing a cold calculus of divide and conquer. It may take something as monumental as the civil rights movement in order to achieve that, but it has to be done. Otherwise we the people will remain divided and powerless.

[Batgirl]

8. somewhere along the line

grand poobahs of the right figured out that a hefty number of working class people will vote against their own economic interests -- in favor of rich grand poobah's getting richer -- in order to support candidates that seem to express their religious beliefs.

[Bridget Burke]

9. Allies are not "appeased"....

The Christian Right--those Christians who want to force their religion down everybody's throats--allied themselves with the Political Right some time ago. The Southern Baptists have always been pretty conservative but they once avoided political involvement. I remember when the Christian Right took over the Texas Republican Party--not long before Bush Jr was "saved."

[ComerPerro]

12. Because it is incredibly easy to do

Most fundies are bigoted morons.

So, all you have to do is appeal to their worst impulses and instincts while stroking their ego by making them feel self-righteous.

Hate the people they hate while telling them the lies they want to hear.