"This Republican Party of Lincoln has become a party of theocracy." said U.S. Representative Christopher Shays, R-Conn. I try to avoid using "theocracy" when discussing the influence of fundamentalist Christians on the Republican party. It seems like a word that would be rejected by many moderates and therefore would give some a negative impression of what I might be trying to convey. But when a respected U.S. Representative of that very party says it, perhaps it is an appropriate characterization.
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
Ensure a Free and Fair Election (Ban Paperless Voting Machines
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
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