Reply #76: If you don't know what neo-liberalism is, why are you in this conversation?

[RaleighNCDUer]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism

Read it and weep - I sure as shit do.

And, re Carter, ignoring the facts does not make them go away. There was NO religious right political movement until Carter made a big issue of his religion - and the predictable response to a religious statement is a RELIGIOUS counter-statement. Nobody much made a big thing of Nixon being a Quaker while also being a war-monger. I don't even remember Reagan making any big thing of his religion (his proxies were doing it, but not him), but even St Ronnie - who I suspect was actually agnostic - seemed to feel it was a little distasteful to wear your religion on your sleeve, and he never made personal claims about religion, only the typical generic "in god we trust" kind of crap. But in response to Carter's "I am a born-again Christian" statements, meant to imply that 'of course you can trust me', the disparate religious issues people coalesced into the politicized Moral Majority in 1979 - the likes of which we hadn't seen since before the Civil War. Even the prohibitionists at the turn of the last century were not so politicized into a single party as a religion-based organization. All as a response to Carter putting it front and center in his administration.