When I am not making snarky comments here, I am usually in Craigslist Forums beating on purported Conservative trolls for sport. (It's the Sadomasochist shredded wheat side of me.) One of the things I discovered recently is that nobody there seems to be able to discuss Dominionism, Theocracy, and Christian Reconstructionism... It seems most of the topics there are Dumb Fux News programming. Sometimes this is painful when you make an attempt to debate or rationally discuss a serious political topic.
Another place I lurk is TheocracyWatch.org and talktoaction... They have a lot of great info and sometimes it is fun to drop a few tidbits out to see if anyone is open minded enough to absorb something outside of Dumb Fux News. I was cutting and pasting and talking about why the GOP does not have real Republicans anymore... and that the GOP/Tea Baggers were the same bag o crap, and then I found this:
Cut & Pasted from;
http://www.theocracywatch.org/taking_over.htmWhat happened between 1964 and 1994?A group of Republican strategists who had worked on Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign were worried. Goldwater had been soundly defeated, and the strategists feared that the base of the Republican Party -- primarily southern segregationists and the very wealthy -- was too narrow. So they set out to expand the base calling themselves the New Right. Goldwater was not part of the New Right.
One member of the New Right, Republican Strategist Paul Weyrich, founded the Heritage Foundation in 1973 -- a think tank to promote the ideas of the New Right. Weyrich also founded ALEC, The American Legislative Exchange Council in 1973 to coordinate the work of Religious Right state legislators. ALEC initially positioned itself as a counterweight to liberal foundations and think tanks, focusing on social issues like abortion and the Equal Rights Amendment, but became a magnet for corporate lobbyists.
ALEC gives business a direct hand in writing bills that are considered in state assemblies nationwide.
Funded primarily by large corporations, industry groups, and conservative foundations -- including R.J. Reynolds, Koch Industries, and the American Petroleum Institute-- the group takes a chain-restaurant approach to public policy, supplying precooked McBills to state lawmakers. Since most legislators are in session only part of the year and often have no staff to do independent research, they're quick to swallow what ALEC serves up. In 2000, according to the council, members introduced more than 3,100 bills based on its models, passing 450 into law. Ghostwriting the Law, Karen Olson, Mother Jones, Sept.Oct. 2002
In 1979 Weyrich coined the term "Moral Majority." Their goal was to politicize members of fundamentalist, Pentecostal and charismatic churches - a constituency that had been basically apolitical.
Not all members of fundamentalist, Pentecostal and charismatic churches support the Religious Right, but those were the groups targeted by the New Right. And some members of churches outside of those mentioned support the Religious Right, while many other Christian leaders strongly oppose them.
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Anyway, I find it wild that Koch keep coming up as bank rollers for GOP/Tea Baggers, John Birch Society, AFP... and now the Moral Majority (MM,RR,CC, FF... ) The Kochs are supposed to be Libertarian, but I am thinking that they are just into whatever protects their money.
I guess the whole reason I am posting this has to do with someone else's snarky comments the other day on "Liberalhead's" video discussing the topic of an Oligarchy. There was a long rant in the comment section that went on about how an Oligarchy does not exist. However, I think it is quite obvious that some form of Oligarchy does exist. The Kochs have been doing things for years that cause real friction between Americans. IMO; I think the Oligarchy is just part of the Christian Reconstruction going on, and why the GOP look like idiots and why they are against democracy. (GOP hasn't had real Republicans in it since the late 80's.)... They are all Christian Conservative Dominionists. They are out to destroy Democracy. Everything they have been doing is systematic and they are succeeding in eliminating just about every type of social and secular program that is out there. The pieces just sort of fell together and seem to make sense to me.
(I'm a combat veteran...) In BOSNIA; They had this thing going on over there where there were several factions of individuals attempting to dominate one another. A control of the Dalmatian coastline and an ethnic cleansing of Muslims and whomever else they could stuff down a well along the way. It was a conflict over control, religion, and money... But what happened was each side who was fighting killed their neighbors and wiped out neighboring towns because of somebodies belief or ethnic heritage. So you had Serbians, and Serb Croats, and Croat Muslims, and Bosnian Croatians, and Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Serbs, The only way to tell these guys apart were their uniforms and equipment. Other than that, we pretty much had to lump all these factions together under the same sack-o-shit label to be able to stop the fighting and separate the factions... I think this is why all this Christian Reconstruction Oligarchy nonsense fell together for me. In Bosnia all these factions thought they were the victor in their war with each other. They all stood proud on their piles of rubble. The had thinned out the Yugoslavian population and had to start over from scratch (with an occasional land mine surprise every so often.) Their war over ideology-superiority (Dominion.) was real sad to experience. I think this is sort of happening here, but nobody has become fed up yet to go to the extreme of being at each other throats yet. The Religious Right (GOP/Baggers) Are very hard headed and they are quite convinced that their way is the only way, and they are attempting to force their ways on us. (They don't sleep and they are very organized and obviously well funded.)
John Birch Society, Oath Keepers/Promise Keepers, Christian Coalition, Moral Majority, Religious Right, Focus on the Family, Americans For Prosperity, Eagle Forum, ACLJ, Heritage Foundation, Army of God, The Federalist Society, Blackwater, Tea Baggers, The American Constitution Society, Minute Men... Westboro Baptist Church... I lump all these assholes together in the same sack-o-shit category. This is what they are. Anti-American, Anti-Democracy Dominionists who aim to take everything you have. (It's seems clear to me for some reason all of the sudden.)
Women's rights, unions, Social Security, your right to vote, speech, freedom of travel, freedom of/from religion... It's like a non-stop roller coaster ride that is getting ready to derail.
I think this is getting ready to get nasty. (Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think so.)
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