Nevertheless, my well-traveled work history included a stint at an unnamed christianist organization headed by one Bill Bright, working with many wonderful people, even some Lutherans, even through a day of paid prayer in 1992 at a local church where Mr. Bright compared the coming election to the ultimate battle between the forces of God--apparently the God he spoke with--and forces of evil in the earthly form of William Jefferson Clinton.
This illustrates the deep psychological need of many on the right, the ones who get air time and ink anyway, to see themselves as soldiers of the Lord in the apocalyptic battle against evil.
Nevertheless, they get so hell bent on enforcing their own judgment that they fail to read what my Jesus said, leaning instead on words of Angry Old White God With that Long Beard recounted in the Old Testament.
Indeed, we have had a paranoid style in American politics for quite some time, "American politics has often been an arena for angry minds. In recent years we have seen angry minds at work mainly among extreme right-wingers, who have now demonstrated in the Goldwater movement how much political leverage can be got out of the animosities and passions of a small minority."
http://karws.gso.uri.edu/jfk/conspiracy_theory/the_paranoid_mentality/the_paranoid_style.html
It just saddens me how the number of people affected by this madness has seemed to increase exponentially since 1964.
At long last, sane Republicans, have you no decency to confront this hatred?
[Musician Ted Nugent has added a fresh chord to his harmony of negative comments against President Barack Obama.
In an interview with the New Times Broward-Palm Beach, Nugent was asked what rock bands would represent Obama and presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney.
"Out and out politicians are anathema to rock-n-roll, so I hesitate to attempt to connect the two," he replied. "But on important issues, I am saddened to admit that Obama represents everything bad about humanity and Romney pretty much all that is good. It is really that stark."]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/06/ted-nugent-obama-humanity_n_1747876.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
In an interview with the New Times Broward-Palm Beach, Nugent was asked what rock bands would represent Obama and presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney.
"Out and out politicians are anathema to rock-n-roll, so I hesitate to attempt to connect the two," he replied. "But on important issues, I am saddened to admit that Obama represents everything bad about humanity and Romney pretty much all that is good. It is really that stark."]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/06/ted-nugent-obama-humanity_n_1747876.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
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