Wait, you weren't supposed to actually ban abortion!

[A HERETIC I AM]

14. I've said this before on DU, but it is important to understand that these people will not go quietly

It's going to get a LOT worse before it gets better.


The hard right Christian fundamentalist types in this country have gotten a LOT of pushback over the last 15 years or so, (edit...more like 25 years or so, but accelerating with the web. ) I think really since the advent of the internet, which finally allowed like minded people that are scattered across the country to join forces and voices.

There has been a lot of resistance to conservative, Christian led politics recently and they don't like it, not one little bit, nosiree. And now they have a man in the white house and a Senate Majority Leader who will do what they have been asking for, for decades, to facilitate a return to an era that they seem to think were "the good old days" but in fact, never really existed.

Way too many of these types seem to think that the days of the nuclear family doing everything together, and particularly attending church every Sunday - think "Leave it to Beaver" and "Ozzie and Harriet", dad working and mom at home....that this is the way America SHOULD be and dammit, they are going to see to it that it's that way again.

But it never existed. With the exception of certain enclaves of upper middle class, suburbia in the 50's and 60's, most Americans never had that. Ever. Except on TV.

But while they got this asshole in the White House and that other asshole in the Senate, they are going to shove as many of these bullshit, backward, theocratic laws down our throats as they possibly can.

It irks the "religious leaders" (read "Folks that love to tell you how to live" ) to no end that church attendance is down dramatically over the last decade or two. It means they are losing their grip on influence and their grip on the wallets of the fleeced...er...flock.

And again, they don't fucking like it.

Not at all.

And they won't give up without a serious fight.