The left needs to get real about domestic jihadists

[haele]

74. Well, there are quite a few Dominionists and John Bircher types who are driving policy.

and have been for quite a few decades. They direct the focus of think tanks like "The Federalist Society" or "The Heritage Foundation", or "The Cato Foundation", and their hold over media empires - Rev. Sun Yong Moon and his "Unification Church", which bought up news organizations during the 1970's and 1980's. "The John Birch Society", a heavily Christian-centric "Anti Communist" organization who have embedded themselves in the leadership of many post-WWII government agencies from the beginning - look at the founding leaders of the CIA, the NSA and the Air Force. The Family - a Prosperity Gospel group that accepts anyone who is "a follower of The Book" - as in, they'll accept Jews and the occasional Unitarian, so long as the person they "tap" believes in some higher power that can anoint the special people to rule over the masses. The Family pretty much runs the social functions of the legislative branch and much of the executive branch - they use a "good ol' boy network" and a system of favor calling to keep their people in power or as advisers to power.
There's a lot of money and favors that come from the Christian Dominionists - the Franklin Grahams, the Tony Perkins and their ilk, who along with their Catholic Opus Dei brothers, will accept and support any and all of the above as fellow travelers in The Lord, so long as those organizations are 1) at least Lip-service Evangelical, 2) authoritarian spectrum Conservatives and 3) un-abashed, hard nosed Capitalists.

It's called the "Seven Hills" strategy - to put God's Dominion over the Seven Hills of Society, no matter what the majority of the population thinks or what it does to them.
And they've got a huge hold on the governance of the United States.

Haele