What if the Religious Right allied with the Working Left?

[IngridsLittleAngel]

71. I know, right?!

It's funny how 40+ years of bigotry at the hands of the very people that the OP would love to throw raw meat to would cause someone like me to be a big ol' close-minded meany, isn't it? How close-minded of me to think the Constitution applies to me. How close-minded of us to not see the greatness of "state's rights".

I really wish the grief I endured in life was comparable with a few blunt responses on a message board because I inserted my foot in my mouth.

I'm just wondering: How long have you been targeted by those not-so-dangerous social conservatives? Have any experience in knowing they aren't as "dangerous" as we think?

I'll tell you what, buddy: When that "one-issue" I'm so "militant" over involves people's rights and safety, I'm going to shout, and shout as loud as I can. When corporations are standing to one side thinking people exist solely as assets to exploit, and brave "negotiators" are standing to the other thinking people exist solely as pawns to sacrifice for their benefit, how in the blue hell can I see either side as anything but the enemy?

Hell yeah. Let's just throw the religious right a few bones on their bigoted and bullshit culture wars if it leads to the greater good for the masses. The "normal" masses.

What both you and the OP fail to see if there is a huge difference between trying to pull the wool off of sheep's eyes and pointing out to them that we have a common enemy, and offering up some human sacrifices to them in the damned culture war that they may or may not have started, but that they've sure fought and shed blood in.

What a thread. I just wish some of you would hurry up and accuse us of wanting ponies, tell us to eat our peas or sit in the back of the bus, or shout "state's rights!" so I'd get a bingo.