Do you want to understand why the fundies have so much power?

converted_democrat

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Fri Mar-17-06 10:07 AM
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Do you want to understand why the fundies have so much power?

Edited on Fri Mar-17-06 10:49 AM by converted_democrat

I posted this on another thread, but I thought I'd post it on its own because it is an important topic that is talked about a lot here on DU.. I grew up in a family of fundies, and most of my family is still that way.. I understand them pretty well, and I just wanted you guys to understand it too.. The better you understand your enemy the easier they are to defeat..

In my best estimates I'd say they account for 15-20% of the population.. They have a tendency to be loud mouthed and extremely politically active, so their numbers appear to be larger than what they really are.. On top of that, they more or less hijacked the conservative movement to make themselves appear larger than what they really are.. Most conservatives have completely different values than what the fundies do, but because conservatives are often religious they don't do the further exploration into what the differences are, so the side with the zealots instead of us "godless commies." Most conservatives want to be able to pray in public schools, and plaster "In God We Trust" all over everything, but they would stop short at giving up their privacy and force others share their views, where as that is the fundies actual goal..

Until we can separate the true conservatives from the fundies for good we are outnumbered.. Most conservatives though, to their credit, are coming around.. (Just take a look at the recent poll numbers, and you can see it..) They hate how much money is being spent, and they hate big government, and they are beginning to see that they aren't getting what they bargained for.. They are beginning to see what is happening, and the ones that have woken up are just as pissed about it as we are..

The biggest reason that fundies are getting what they want is because they are aligning themselves with corporate America.. They both want basically the same things, but for different reasons.. Fundies want women to not have choice in regard to their bodies because it makes women easier to control, and it "punishes" women who have sex, where as corporations want it so they have more consumers for their products, cannon fodder for their wars, and a bigger pool to get cheap labor from.. If you look at almost all of the corporate and fundie goals, they're almost all the same, they just want them for different reasons.. If you look at the issues like taxes, discrimination laws, separation of church and state, and so on, they all line up just like the women's choice example I gave above.. When the two joined forces they became harder to defeat.. The corps. have the money, and the fundies have the people to write the letters, make the phone calls, and demonstrate.. These are the reasons they have so much power, when in reality their numbers are so few..

On edit- Just so you are aware.. These people aren't truly religious people.. This is a movement of white guys that think they lost all their power when women where given the right to choose, and civil rights took effect.. They want the power that they had in the 1950's back.. This is nothing more than a movement of powerless white guys trying to drag us back to the period when they had power.. They have their women convinced that submitting to their husbands and men and general is Godly, so they've got them convinced that it's a good idea.. This is all about control.. The fundy movement has little to do with religion, it's about getting control under the guise of religion..