They believe that Mr. Huckabee, the minister who speaks their language, shares, down to the bone, their anxieties, concerns and beliefs. They fear that the other Republican candidates are caught up in a million smaller issues–taxing, spending, the global economy, Sunnis and Shia–and missing the central issue: again, our culture. They are populists who vote Republican, and as I have read their letters, I have felt nothing but respect.
Not me. Because these people think their culture, the “Christian” culture (as they define it) is the only culture that should be permitted in their “Christian” nation and their “Christian” government. They forget that America has grown strong and great on being largest and longest running cultural melting pot in the history of the world. And therefore their cultural biases are profoundly un-American. Although their methods are far more civilized - democracy and a rule of law - they want to control democracy and make the laws to conform to their “Christian” belief - and so in the end they do bear a malign kinship with the Islamofascists who want to destroy us: They want the rest of us to bow to the rules and demands of their religion, and if we don’t, they want to use the state, the law and force to make us do so.
Submit to Stumbled Upon!
I beg to differ, Bill.
You don’t need to worry about the upcoming Christian Version of Shariah, ’cause it ain’t going to happen. At least not on this Evangelical Christian’s watch.
The problem here is that everybody is yakking endlessly about Huckapoo’s use of religion in his campaign, something that I too find disgusting, particularly since He Doeth Protest Too Much, if you ask me.
Forget about you and me, we’re both hooked into the Political Matrix 24/7, so we know about all of the other reasons why he’s a useless candidate, but the average voter doesn’t. Why? Because everybody is too busy yammering about a shelf looking like a cross in one of his ads. And yes, that “shelf” was deliberate. You’d have to be willfully blind to argue otherwise. But quit harping about it. It only helps the Huckaclown present himself as “the Poor, Persecuted Christian Boy”, which is exactly what got him the turnout yesterday. To the average voter, it looks exactly that way. It looks like there’s only one Christian in the race and that the only reason the others won’t play nice with him is because he’s a Christian.
Again: Not you and I. We both know what’s going on, we both know a hundred reasons that have nothing to do with religion why he shouldn’t be President. But we’re political junkies and we’re in the minority. You and I won’t decide elections, the average voter will, and to them it looks exactly the way that Huckadork says it is.
That is what will have to change.