Reply #8: "The situation in Rwanda went a lot deeper than hateful radio broadcasts"

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Indeed. And I am not saying that we are the same as Rwanda, but here also the situation goes a lot deeper than hateful radio broadcasts. I don't think we blue state urban progressives fully appreciate just how deep the gulf is, how different a world, the hardcore religious right lives in. We joke about it, referring to ourselves as the 'reality based community', but it is no joke. The republican control of government is based partially on their empowerment of the hardcore theofascist right. That empowerment is a very dangerous thing, as the agenda of the religious right is the establishment of a theocracy here. The republican party is playing with fire. The corporate greed heads and the neocons think that they can just pander to the theofascists and use them, but it is not clear at all who exactly is using who here. It is not the people you know who you disagree with politically (conservatives) who are the problem, it is the people you most likely don't know who live in that other bizaro world, who are very well organized, who are fed a steady stream of hate in their exurban mega churches every sunday, they are the problem and they will be doing the lord's work as they slaughter us.