Reply #10: The Rapture Right is dead serious . They are a danger to corporations too

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I will concede that Corporations have used the culture wars to fire up the reactionary base. But that does not mean that the 'real power' is the corporations and the 'people of faith' are mere tools.

The Religious Reich may have gone into a weird alliance with the corporatists, but when they think they have enough power, they will attempt a theocratic coup. It is already happening on a gradual basis - but I think the time is rapidly nearing when they will butt heads with big corporations, and sane people will recoil in horror as behemoths of industry are slain by these fanatics.

If they find out that a big company is promoting an 'immoral agenda' they will use all of their power - economic boycotts, political pressure, connections with 'christian businessmen', their mature grassroots political infrastructure - in a ruthless, disciplined attack and an 'as-long-as it-takes' siege that will bring an offending company into compliance or will drive them out of existence.

If they discover a drug company is making big profits off of a morning after pill - even if only in foreign countries - they will threaten to boycott, dump stock, and have every churchgoer call their congressman to demand that the drug company stop making the morning after pill, even if it means that company will lose profits or incur loss.

I don't think any industry will be big enough or powerful enough to survive a full-scale attack and siege by the Religious Reich. (Remember, these are the same fanatical lunatics that caused the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and the Collapse of Western Civilization in the first few centuries AD.).

I think corporations will curse the day they allied with these nut-cases and fired up the culture wars. They will long for the good old days of the New Deal when all they had to contend with was reasonable regulations and progressive taxation. They will bitterly regret the day they awakened the sleeping giant of religious superstition.