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RIGHT WING WATCH IS A BLOG OF PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY AS SEEKS TO EXPOSE TO AIR AND SUNLIGHT the latest in absurd propaganda missives and "calls to action" by the Religiopolitical Right targeting their followers, who are more than likely to be poor, ignorant and easily-influenced on obvious non-issues where appeals to True Patriot Love in All Thy Sons Command can be incorporate, risk of psychoemotional harm notwithstanding.
Since the emergence of warning signs of real or imminent socioeconomic harm during the election campaign, there's been plenty of patsies coming from the Religiopolitical Right's propaganda masheen vis-a-vis the root cause, all lacking any credible foundation in Reality. Latest example in this respect, per Right Wing Watch:
Last month, [Kyle] wrote a couple of posts highlighting the Religious Right's claim that our current economic mess was due to a collective loss of morality that could be traced back to abortion, homosexuals, and an overall breakdown in the family.
But, as Think Progress discovered, those weren't the problem at all. What really caused the economic meltdown was people not saying "Merry Christmas":
Notwithstanding the cardboard Santas who seem to have arrived in stores this year near Halloween, the holiday season starts in seven days with Thanksgiving. And so it will come to pass once again that many people will spend four weeks biting on tongues lest they say "Merry Christmas" and perchance, give offense. Christmas, the holiday that dare not speak its name.
This year we celebrate the desacralized "holidays" amid what is for many unprecedented economic ruin--fortunes halved, jobs lost, homes foreclosed. People wonder, What happened? One man's theory: A nation whose people can't say "Merry Christmas" is a nation capable of ruining its own economy ...
It has been my view that the steady secularizing and insistent effort at dereligioning America has been dangerous. That danger flashed red in the fall into subprime personal behavior by borrowers and bankers, who after all are just people. Northerners and atheists who vilify Southern evangelicals are throwing out nurturers of useful virtue with the bathwater of obnoxious political opinions.
The point for a healthy society of commerce and politics is not that religion saves, but that it keeps most of the players inside the chalk lines. We are erasing the chalk lines.
Keep in mind that this appeared in the Wall Street Journal and was written by the deputy editor of its editorial page.
If you want to know what went wrong with the economy, perhaps the fact that "the leading provider of business and financial news and analysis" has people like this running the show might have something to do with it.
With regards to the last paragraph of the original item, such has to leave you and me wondering if, in the Religiopolitical Right's Weltanschauung, the defence of Traditional Moral and Familial Values is that of free-market capitalism is that of Our Antient and Pecuilar Soverignty and Soverign Identity as a Pecuilar Among the Nations--and, what's more, all three are somehow intertwined and interconnected by Divine Will.
Sadly, though, there is nothing in either the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence or the Articles of Confederation implying the legality of such an interconnexion, let alone the Mayflower Compact.
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EN 'N ANDER DING: If you thought Supercow, the bombastic Spanish-speaking superhero alter ego of Cow on Cartoon Network's Cow and Chicken some years back, was rather silly, can you just imagine an equally-bombastic Afrikaans-speaking superhero seeking to deflate the arrogant racist mindsets promoted by the apartheid regime in South Africa for 46 years (1948-1994) as sought to inspire the "persecuted" Afrikaner into a hubris-weighted place of Pride and Honour rivalled only by Nazi designs on an "Aryan Master Race" "reclaiming German pride and honour"?
(Not to mention a fondness for an ur-sangria of Rooibostee and cheap Paarl red wines turned into an ur-Vin Mariani ... as well as Eet Sum Mor shortbread cookies, Tennis Biscuits, Romany Creams and Ouma Rusks.)
...and forget thou not The Exaggerator Collection as part of your experience here today....
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