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The left is decades behind the right wing nuts in organizing and passion. This right wing insurgency didn't just start last year. We have no clue how bad it is. It all starts with home schooling and private schools. That's why school voucher and home schooling is such a big issue for them.
When the Tea Party rose in 2009, that was my culture. The Tea Party was step one. I was laying the groundwork for those elections in 2006. These people didnt come out of the blue like it seemed. This plan, this Christofascist takeover of the US government, has been in the works for decades. When evangelical conservatism started becoming popular and more mainstream around the 1970s, the foundation was being laid for the tragedy playing out right now.
Evangelical conservatives started taking over their local republican parties and founding organizations like Operation Rescue, Homeschool Legal Defense Association, Family Research Council and Focus on the Family, just to name a few.
We are decades behind. They do all this for Jesus which makes this strategy formidable because they won't listen to reason. The left has always been rag-tag and disorganized with various factions doing their own thing while demonizibg everyone else. We are in for a very long and very dark period in this country. And it very well may never be the same. You think people are going to vote Trump out in 4 years? Think again.
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This has been in play for a longtime. The far right is very organized, very focused and very much in power now...there is no guarantee that there will even be a vote in four years. If the left, progressives and the go along to get along independents/ undecideds don't get their act together to push back in a unified way we are in for a very rough time. The end game goal for these groups is to set the stage for the "second coming"...that is not healthy for the species any species.
Marches are nice but the unity (contacting congress, voting, being involved) needs to be ongoing. Not when it is convenient.
Gman
(24,780 posts)Now if the petuchalect crowd would just get it.