Reply #94: my dear 89-year-old Aunt Betty is an absolutely CRAZY right-wing fundamentalist

[Douglas Carpenter]

and she actually always was - even long before the rise of the modern fundamentalist right-wing - Even many years ago there were a handful of right-wing extremist on the radio like a earlier generation right-wing nut named Carl McIntire - a radio preacher who propagated the fundamentalist right - long before there was a fundamentalist right.

The odd thing is that she does not otherwise - apart from religion and politics which she had blended together a long time ago - seem like the least bit of an unreasonable person nor an intolerant person. In fact her general attitude seems quite tolerant and very compassionate.

Whatever got a hold of her mind at a much earlier age seems to have convinced her God, America (not the one that actually exist - but a make believe America that does not and never has existed) and the right-wing of the Republican Party are all the same. I recall her in 2004 admitting that "we all know that George W. Bush is not an educated man (She was clever enough to know that) but, we have to support him because John Kerry has been proven to be a person of bad character. And history has shown that whenever America drifts away from the Biblical-Christian principles that our country was founded on and that made us the greatest nation on earth - The country ends up in a lot of trouble." Of course all of this is make believe and can certainly be refuted. But, where on earth does one even start? Besides no amount of information, logic or empirical data will ever influence her thinking one little bit.