No matter how "discredited" the Religious Reich is in the mainstream - and by that I mean in the general consensus of most everyone but people in the Religious Reich - they have not lost any credibility in their own eyes nor have they lost significant numbers of Bible-thumping Shock Troops.
Within their own institutions - their churches, their private schools, their business and professional networking groups, and their PACs, they believe they their power is on the rise. Now they are very realistic, patient, and persistent - they realize it may take 5 or 10 or 50 years to fully realize their vision, but it is a lifetime commitment for them.
We sometimes forget that people who are politically active usually think about politics mostly around election time, and meet possibly a few times a year, or every once a month in our grassroots orginizations...but Religious Reichers meet EVERY WEEK, sometimes two or three or four times a week in their rallies (aka "church services").
Their commitment is a total commitment that is deeply tied into what they believe is the ultimate truth about things, who they are, and why they were born.
Further, they have an extremely mature and effective infrastructure and a leadership powerfully focused on a chilling agenda. Radical Fundamentalist Clerics such as Falwell, Dobson et al are not merely medieval throwbacks or misguided religious hacks. They are part of a well organized subversionary movement known as "Dominionism". Dominionism constitutes a serious threat to American Democracy.
Dobson and other Fundamentalist Radical Clerics like Falwell and Robertson are planning and executing a coup to gradually replace the free, secular democratic society of the United States with a Theocracy. This plan has been spelled out in detail by other radical clerics and is called "Dominionism".
It is critical that people become aware of the extreme agenda these people have for the United States and ultimately for the world. The results of the 2004 election were not a fluke or something that was drummed up over a period of months. It has been in planning for over 20 years, and what we are seeing now is, in the words of Katherine Yurica, "the swift advance of a planned coup".
The articles below are critical for understanding the Dominionist movement and for realizing how real and how detailed their plans are, and how far they have come toward achieving their goals.Dominionism: The Swift Advance of a Planned Coup
Conquering by Stealth and Deception - How the Dominionists Are Succeeding in Their Quest for National Control and World Power>
http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/TheSwiftAdvanceOfaPlannedCoup.htm
The Despoiling of America: How George W. Bush became the head of the new American Dominionist Church/State
http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/TheDespoilingOfAmerica.htm
Video on the Christian Reconstructionist Dominionist Theocratic Agenda
http://www.theocracywatch.org/av/video_dominion.ram
The Rise of the Religious Right in the Republican Party
a public information project from TheocracyWatch.org
http://www.theocracywatch.org