Lest we get lost in the afterglow...

[DarkmoonIkonoklast]

   In the midst of the afterglow of the royal "shtupping" the Pachys gave the Jackasses Tuesday, I have, sadly, a bad case of post-coital triste...

   Now that we've ended far too many years of Repug control of the Federal Congress, the hard work begins: Keeping the Armageddonites in the Executive from declaring Jihad, from launching their own Christian Crusade, their own Holy War, immediately, rather than allow their Holy Cause to be derailed.

   I believe this to be a real danger.

   I believe that there are elements within the Administration which would launch a global nuclear holocaust, rather than, as they see it, "allow the forces of Satan to win the victory."
   I believe that there are elements within the Administration who follow pastoral teachings coming from Texas which hold Islam to be the active tool of Satan, dedicated to the destruction of America and of all of Christendom, and hold all Muslims to be agents of the Anti-Christ. This belief is, sadly, not one man's paranoia, but is, rather, drawn from the words of one of the leading voices in the ultra-conservative neo-Evangelical movement: the Rev John Hagee <"http://www.jhm.org/">, as spoken from the pulpit of his San Antonio-based Cornerstone Church <"http://www.sacornerstone.com/">, and as contained in some of his best-selling publications...

   I believe that some of the followers of these teachings hold positions of influence, of power, within the current Administration, while others have the ear of such high-ranking members of the Administration...

   I am greatly concerned as to what they might now propose to do.

   I am greatly concerned as to whether they can be stopped at all...

[MissHoneychurch]

1. You mean like they will leash out like wounded animals?

I honestly believe that the neo-con area is (almost) over and that if the Republicans want to have a chance in the future they will move away from the Fundamentalists.

[DarkmoonIkonoklast]

2. That is EXACTLY what I mean!

   Miss Honey, you have consistently demonstrated a talent for seeing what SHOULD be obvious to all, but which, seemingly, is hidden behind the veil of denial!

   I'm not all that concerned with "mainstream" Republicans... at worst, they are oligarchs, royalists, plutocrats... the sort of commoditarians we humanists have been fighting for millennia...

   America has survived robber barons in the past and she will survive them in the future.

   No, I am concerned rather with that lunatic fringe of society which has always sought (and finally managed) to seize the reins of power into it's hot and sweaty little hands and, pantingly anticipating the orgasmic rush of being God-shtupped, is ready to pull off the ultimate act of masturbation: bringing about Armageddon and, then, the Judgment.

   GOD, PLEASE protect us from your followers!

[MissHoneychurch]

3. One can only hope

that Democracy is still intact enough to keep them from their lunacy.

[DarkmoonIkonoklast]

4. "... intact enough...", aye, and ACTIVE enough!

   I'm off now, to do my "bit" to promote that activity! Light a candle for me, liebchen, and for us all!