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WITH NEARLY A FORTNIGHT TO GO BEFORE IT ALL DEPENDS ON THE AMERICAN ELECTORATE MAKING THE FINAL CHOICE on the path America must take between Freedom and Happiness for the 21st century, it's emerging that the Religiopolitical Right and their friends among the Dregs of Society are resorting to Drastic Measures for "winning of hearts and minds" into four more years of failed socioeconomic policy in the name of "saving America from herself" by keeping America a White Christian Nation not unlike apartheid South Africa in its zenith.
Some interesting details from Right Wing Watch, for starters:
Does anyone else get the sense that the Religious Right is starting to get a bit terrified about what the election has in store for them and their agenda?
Please vote! Our children's future depends on it!
In my 70 years, I have never seen an election where coverage was so one-sided and biased or where censorship by the liberal media was so widely practiced and where media coverage was so slanted as I have seen in this election process. Their plan is working. The only chance conservatives have is to make sure they care enough to vote.
If the liberals win the upcoming election, America as we have known it will no longer exist. This country that we love, founded on Judeo-Christian values, will cease to exist and will be replaced by a secular state hostile to Christianity. This “city set on a hill” which our forefathers founded, will go dark. The damage will be deep and long lasting. It cannot be turned around in the next election, or the one after that, or by any election in the future. The damage will be permanent. That is why it is so important for you to vote and to encourage friends and family to vote. This is one election where your vote really counts.
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Earlier today we noted the American Family Association starting to panic over the possibility of an Obama presidency, declaring that “if the liberals win the upcoming election, America as we have known it will no longer exist.”
And it is starting to look as if abject terror is slowly overtaking the entire Religious Right movement. For instance, Sarah Posner points us to this post from Stephen Strang proclaiming, in all seriousness, that “life as we know it will end if Obama is elected”:
[P]eople who hate Christianity will be emboldened to attack our freedoms. Christianity is already persona non grata in academia and in the liberal media. People such as Bill Maher and Michael Moore, who hate God and God's people, will think the election verifies that the nation as a whole believes as they do and will jump for glee. Meanwhile, Christians seem almost asleep. There is no outcry!
"I think what you'll see is Barack Obama solidifying power in short order, either through the legislative process with hate crimes legislation. And then he'll turn on talk radio with reenactment of the 'Fairness Doctrine.' I'm not so sure he'll wait for an act of Congress. I think he'll do some of this with unconstitutional but never challenged executive orders, but he will silence his critics within days," he explains. "One thing you can always count on is [that] liberals, unlike conservatives, know how to use power -- and they will use it swiftly and decisively. And all I can say is heaven help us if this man becomes president of the United States."
Scarborough contends Obama is a committed socialist who intends to radically transform the United States.
David Corn has a good post up on the MoJo Blog detailing the varying last-minute attacks the Right is throwing at Obama right now, ranging from “Obama is a commie who hates the rich and wants to kill the American Dream” to “Obama will destroy Christianity in the United States and enslave you within an Islamic dictatorship.”
And speaking of the so-called "American Family Association" whipping up the old weeping and wailing and boohoohooing about This Country That We Love being in danger: Doesn't this smack of apartheid South African appeals to fear over what might happen if apartheid were to suddenly collapse, especially so the Loss of White Afrikaner Honour and Pride?
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ANOTHER UNLIKELY PROPAGATOR OF PLAYING TO THE CRUDEST OF PREJUDICES AND IGNORANCE FOR THE SAKE OF INDECISION 2008 happens to be the Ku Klux Klan: Folders promoting same have been used over recent days as a wrapper for copies of Oklahoma's Ada Evening News, much to the chagrin of the gazetta's publishers and the district attorney of Pontotoc County (of which Ada is shire town), who is considering Hate Crimes charges against such responsible.
(The Klan, for its part, tries washing its hands, Pilate-stylee, of responsibility for what happens to its brochures as are downloaded and reprinted off their website. Which doesn't sit well with the publishers of the Evening News, who are prepared to file charges of Unlawful Distribution against such involved.)
Your Correspondent, though, is grateful that readers thereof are consigning such garbage to the most approriate place therefor: the recycling bin.
IN CASE YOU'RE WONDERING ABOUT THE RELEVANCE THEREOF, WE MAY BE ALL THE CLOSER TO HIGH-SPEED RAIL SERVICE BETWEEN CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE, MADISON AND THE TWIN CITIES within measurable distance thanks to freshly-signed legislation authorising funds for track upgrades and equipment that will allow for high-speed passenger rail:
between Chicago, Milwaukee and Madison in three years' time; and
continuing onward to the Twin Cities (via Wisconsin Dells, LaCrosse and Winona in five years' time.
Which, once the service is up to full strength, will see six return trips ever day @ top speeds of 100 mph or thereabouts. But will it play in LaCrosse?
