Bill Moyers. This is quite sad. Hope it isn't a re-post.

[NoSheep]

First paragraph:

There Is No Tomorrow

By Bill Moyers

01/30/05 "The Star Tribune" -- One of the biggest changes in politics in my lifetime is that the delusional is no longer marginal. It has come in from the fringe, to sit in the seat of power in the Oval Office and in Congress. For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7960.htm

[rkc3]

1. Wow. Just wow.

Even ten minutes after reading it, I'm still stunned by this commentary.

Living in Western PA you forget the rest of the country is not like you. Travels to NC and GA are shocking, especially when you listen to talk radio in the south.

I don't know what to say.

[NoSheep]

5. I live in NC. I am fortunate to be in the "Triangle" where conditions are

tolerable. A lot of college grads here and people who have travelled enough to know there's more to reality than the inside of their heads. I have always loved Moyers and I'm almost positive he is a native North Carolinian. I'm going to Minnesota this weekend and I can't wait to see what being surrounded by dems like me feels like.

[Ganja Ninja]

2. Moyers really tells it like it is.

The American Christian right is a menace to the whole planet. The way they're acting I wouldn't blame the rest of the world if they wiped us out for the sake of self preservation.

[NoSheep]

6. Re-read history and you will see...we are in the Dark Ages. :(

[EST]

3. B.M. has certainly made this abundantly clear

in virtually all his speeches of the last couple of years. What are we prepared to do about it?

[Dr.Phool]

4. Moyers is one of the most eloquent speakers

I've ever heard. And He's usually right.

We all laughed at James Watt years ago. Not now. These folks are serious. Be afraid. Very afraid.

[chill_wind]

7. See also Joe Bageant

Guys like Moyers and Joe Bageant should have been absolute required reading for every last dem strategist in this last campaign.

If you appreciate Moyers, you might also want to google up Joe Bageant.
His many essays are dispersed over a wide variety of sites around the web. Powerful, powerful writing.

Just an excert from one he wrote (to little avail) in the run-up to November 2.

From ""The Covert Kingdom: Thy Will Be Done On Earth As It Is In Texas"

"Lest these Christians be underestimated, remember that it was their strategists whose "stealth ideology" managed the takeover of the Republican Party in the early 1990s. That takeover now looks mild in light of today's neocon Christian implantations in the White House, the Pentagon and the Supreme Court and other federal entities. As much as liberals screech in protest, few understand the depth and breadth of the Rightist Christian takeover underway. They catch the scent but never behold the beast itself.

Yesterday I heard a liberal Washington-based political pundit on NPR say the Radical Christian right's local and regional political action peak was a past fixture of the Reagan era. I laughed out loud (it was a bitter laugh) and wondered if he had ever driven 20 miles eastward on U.S. Route 50 into the suburbs of Maryland, Virginia or West Virginia. The fellow on NPR was a perfect example of the need for liberal pundits to get their heads out of their asses, get outside the city, quit cruising the Internet and meet some Americans who do not mirror their own humanist educations and backgrounds. If they did, they would grasp the importance The Rapture has taken on in American national and international politics. Despite the media's shallow interpretation of The Rapture's significance, it is a hell of a lot more than just a couple hundred million Left Behind books sold. The most significant thing about the Left Behind series is that, although they are classified as "fiction," most fundamentalist readers I know accept the series as an absolute reality soon coming to a godless planet near you. It helps to understand that everything is literal in the Fundamentalist voter universe."

http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/BageantTheCovertKingdom.html

We absolutely have to stop minimizing their numbers and their impact.

[beltanefauve]

8. NPR

And, that NPR is "Liberal", and has "Liberal" commentators is a myth unto itself which only helps these Fundies propogate their lies and misinformation.