On 7/5/2015 1:18 AM, Cousin Ricky wrote:
> (I'm tempted to add fundamentalist Christianity.  However, my analysis
> is that the hyper-religious Americans--including politicians who are
> under the delusion that they run this country--are being punked by money
> via use of fear.)
>
This might be true, if a significant number of the money grubbers where 
not also Fundie Christians. While I don't doubt that a lot of them are 
the US flavor of Libertarian (I have mine, so F everyone else), there is 
a heavy cross over between them, with even most Libertarians espousing 
that they, "believe in the almighty god!", it, apparently, helps them a 
great deal in denying things like climate change, when their personal 
magic wizard either won't let things get bad enough, for them, that they 
need worry about silly shit like global weather patterns, and/or will 
"magic" any problems away for them, if they just push the right 
restrictive legislation through on all those damn liberals, and 
unbelievers (which is, of course, the same thing, after all).

So, no.. This is a bit like suggesting that medieval kings where being 
"duped" by the church - rather than being active participants in the 
mass delusion, out of mutual selfish interests.

The fear they reserve for gullible idiots who have no money, but, often, 
lots, and lots, of religion. Such people are not, after all, human 
enough to "understand" what such wondrous visionaries want to do for 
them, so they have to be scared into doing/allowing what is best for 
them. Duh!!

Should deport the lot of them, but every place that would take them is 
either being slowly overrun by Islam, or would actually go from being a 
third world nation, to an global threat, within less than a decade, if 
we did such a thing. And, as amusing as it would be for the two groups 
of fundie wackos to shoot each other, should we deport them to the 
places run by the same flavor of nitwits, the innocent caught in the 
cross fire don't deserve that.

-- 
Commander Vimes: "You take a bunch of people who don't seem any 
different from you and me, but when you add them all together you get 
this sort of huge raving maniac with national borders and an anthem."

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