Is there any way to "cure" those on the lunatic right?

[Cyrano]

Creationism; stem cell research; renumbering highway 69 in Indiana; a "rapture" that's going to lift up "true believers" and send everyone else to hell; going all out to save a brain-dead woman in Florida; placing the importance of a fetus above that of a fully developed suffering child; believing that some kind of God chose George W. Bush: These examples and hundreds of others indicate that when we speak of the "religious right" we're talking about people who are either incredibly ignorant, or in need of psychiatric help.

Unfortunately, too many of them vote. And, under the current opportunists running the country, we are at their mercy (assuming they have any).

Why the majority of people in this country won't/can't stand up to the wingnuts is a puzzle. Yeah, the MSM sucks, but there's definitely something wrong with the rest of us for having let things get this far out of hand.

[expatriot]

1. Send them to "Madagascar."

:evilgrin:

[blindpig]

25. naw, Fauklands

They'll fit right in with the sheep, in more ways than one.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. Prefrontal lobotomies? LSD? Adequate (good) sex?

[saltpoint]

3. I respect the multiple chemical cure theories, but personally in this case

would favor the high-voltage electroshock route.

Hook their asses up to a powerstation somewhere and turn the thing ON.

[formercia]

7. I agree

5 minutes on a 600v 1000 Amp service ought to do it.

[formercia]

8. Ready Kilowatt at your service.

lol

[saltpoint]

10. Sounds about right to me.

Let 'er rip.

[Bride of Cthulhu]

28. sounds like a plan!

I'll help hook them up.you turn on the juice.

[salinen]

4. Let 'um have America

the sooner they destroy it, the sooner they will hand it back for repairs.

[kliljedahl]

5. "the importance of a fetus"?

what they're talking about hasn't even reached fetushood, it's a clump of cells.


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[saltpoint]

11. Have to agree, kliljedahl.

The Far Right has some far-flung ideas on things.

[Lerkfish]

6. Don't really think so, unfortunately.

they're brainwashed, and its impossible to deprogram them until you remove them from the source of brainwashing....but they get daily doses of Fox, Drudge, Limbaugh, Roberston, etc.....so there's no way to break it, that I'm aware of....these propagandists know their stuff: they teach the sheep to discount and mistrust any alternate source of information.
So, you're dead in the water before you start. You could hand them the holy grail, but because it comes from YOU, its invisible to them.

this is why I get ticked when atheists tell me, a liberal christian, to "fix" the rightwing fundamentalists...it aint gonna happen, believe me.

[iconoclastic cat]

9. Aren't they going to secede soon?

duh, can't spell..

[0rganism]

18. Secession was only for when liberals & moderates had some influence

Now that the federal gov't is entirely in the hands of the rightwing extremists, the goal is subjugation and dominance.

[rzemanfl]

12. Direct injection of large volumes of lead. n/t

[rzemanfl]

27. Amazed this stayed up. n/t

[DistressedAmerican]

13. Hardcore Electroshock Thereapy?

Drugs? Reeducation camps?

Not sure they would do it.

How do they deprogram cult members?

[Walt Starr]

14. Nope, they are incurably and violently insane n/t

[Booster]

15. Lightning bolts might do the trick.

[unhappycamper]

16. Gitmo n/t

[Atman]

17. Get back a free press

Period. No sane person could hear the truth about BushCo and still support him.

[rainman99]

19. I heard a psychiatrist call into Air America one night.

He said that he had actually cured someone who was hooked
on Rush Limbaugh's show.

[knight_of_the_star]

20. I know one way

At least to cure part of it anyway. Since they are so hell-bent on bringing the hell of war to the rest of the world, they should go fight in it. Let them have a walk in hell and see how much they like it.

[Stinky The Clown]

21. It is cult behavior on a mass scale, but rooted in their churches

And the seeds of this movement go back to the real wackos like Tim LeHaye.

[ValentinoM]

22. I don't want to change them, I just want to beat them at the polls..

[newyawker99]

23. Hi ValentinoM!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Cyrano]

26. If we just beat them at the polls, they'll be back the next time around.

A way must be found to totally discredit their prehistoric world view, and their self-serving leaders such as Robertson, Dobson and their ilk.

Ignorant people, and those willing to exploit them, will always be with us. But we can never again allow them to gain the power and influence they currently hold. Which means never again allowing ourselves to be exploited by politicians who don't care about anything but their own wealth and power.

Yeah, I know. I'm talking about a kind of Utopia, but, hey, let me dream for a while.

P.S. Welcome to DU, ValentinoM.

[mopaul]

24. you ain't seen nothin' yet

they have some very colorful plans for america

[NMMNG]

29. Perhaps we should petition to have conservativism declared a psychosis

A good course of antipsychotics ought to clear that right up;)


(BTW, said in jest...sort of)