"Gingrich and the rest can’t compute that their white man-led conservative revolution is dead."

[seafan]

"..... For them, this is the Apocalypse."



Frank Schaeffer, one of the three founders of the right wing evangelical movement, now renounces his role and the violent mob mentality of its followers who have become nothing short of political terrorists.


"These are bad Americans, and they are putting us all at risk." (YouTube, as interviewed by Rachel Maddow, August 7, 2009) (7:37)



Frank Schaeffer: Evangelicals Are the New Anti-Americans, August 5, 2009

From the media influence of the "birthers" to suggestions that the President wants to euthanize the elderly, a propaganda campaign against Obama is in full swing. Who, exactly, is behind it? In his book The Family, Jeff Sharlet has done a masterful job of exposing the machinations of the of shadowy evangelical group known variously as "The Fellowship," or "The Family," (or, most recently, "those nuts from Congress living in a far-right commune on C Street who counsel wayward congressmen regarding adultery.")

Recently, Rachel Maddow has helped bring the whole issue of subversive far-right evangelical religion to a wider public (and gotten some flak for it). But in the light of the Obama presidency--and the rabid right-wing opposition to it -- it's worth noting that the majority of the lies being told about our president, his programs, and the Democratic Party are originating not just from the right wing but from the evangelical right wing in particular.

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Frank Schaeffer: The new Brown Shirts: All that's missing are the uniforms , August 7, 2009

The Republican Old Guard are in the fix an atheist would be in if Jesus showed up and raised his mother from the dead: Their world view has just been shattered. Obama’s election has driven them over the edge. Consider Former Congressman Dick Armey. Several far right foundations and the multitrillion dollar health-insurance industry have teamed up with him to organize the far right foot soldiers of the Republican Party to intimidate people speaking on behalf of health-care reform. They are using my old shock troops — given many of these folks were first energized by the Evangelical pro-life movement that my late father and I started in the 1970s. What we did to clinics they are now doing to congressmen and others speaking out for health care reform.

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I used to know Dick Armey quite well. One of my sons even worked for him as an intern. I knew Armey in the context of his being a fan of my late Evangelical Religious Right leader father Francis Schaeffer. (Back in the day when I was a right wing “pro-life” organizer who has long since quit the Republicans in disgust at their — our — descent into extremism and hate.) Armey was once a decent guy, whatever his political views. How could he stoop so low as to be organizing what amounts to America’s Brown Shirts today?

I think I know what happened to him, Gingrich and the rest: They can’t compute that their white man-led conservative revolution is dead. They can’t reconcile their idea of themselves with the fact that white men like them don’t run the country any more — and never will again. To them the black president is leading a column of the “other” into their promised land. Gays, immigrants, blacks, progressives, even a female Hispanic appointed to the Supreme Court… for them this is the Apocalypse.

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It’s time that this whole shabby (and insane) business be exposed, vilified in run out of town on a rail by whatever responsible Republicans — if any — that are still in the party and who want to see the fortunes of their party revived. Republican leaders taking insurance industry money via lobbying firms and using it to organize what amounts to roving bands of thugs not only need to be exposed but thrown out of the public debate forever. They should become absolute pariahs.

It’s time to give this garbage in name: insurance industry funded fascism.

From the YouTube clip above:

"We've crossed a line where hate and vitriol have gone to a point where it is anti-democratic and anti-American. These people do not want America to succeed. They would rather see our system go down than have a black president... someone with different political views.... someone appointing people like Sotomayor... Hispanic people, women and others... and we have arrived at a point where enough is enough. So, these people are hate mongers....

... it's leaving a loaded gun on the table; they are calling our president Hitler.

...It isn't a question of being bad journalists any more. These are bad Americans. And they are putting us all at risk."

[Kievan Rus]

1. That is very, very, very true

White male rule is crumbling and never to return. The real reason these people are going bonkers is because of racism and misogyny.

[havocmom]

2. the newt was so worried about white males becoming a minority

he failed to notice it had already happened.

[Warren Stupidity]

3. It isn't dead, it is in retreat and quite dangerous.

They are coming to grips with the demographics, with the reality that the electoral game is now tilted against them. All their efforts are now outside of the electoral arena.

[PVnRT]

4. Exactly, they have moved to the stage of street violence condoned by party elites

AKA the tipping point. We stop it here or it's too late.