What if the Religious Right allied with the Working Left?

[haele]

80. Doubt it. The Religious Right thrives on the assumption of the Prosperty Gospel.

You work hard initially, then get blessed with success because of your righteous status as a Good Christian Person, so by the time your first kid enters school, you'll be in management or own your own prosperous business.
If you're still "working" by the time you're thirty, the RR Gawd is punishing you for your poor choices and your apparent disrespect of "His Awesomeness", so you need to learn your lesson. If you fail in business, you're not right with the Lord and have to work your way out yourself. To the seventh generation, if need be...

Tough Love, "Taking Responsibility" and Rugged Individualism - that's what the RR Gawd is all about. Not exactly in line with the "work together to thrive together" view of the Working Left.

On edit, your post is more like "well, what if the Conservative, Moderate, and Liberal real citizens all got together, sang 'Kumbaya' in a national drum-circle, agreed to leave any "social issues" to the states just to get together to throw off the Corporate Oligarchy - and no one could beat them!" That didn't even happen with the American Revolution.
Do you really want to end up with a patchwork of 3/5ths legal rights conditions, or 70 years of smoldering "y'all can't tell me what to do" fiefdoms of entrenched powers that end up in a second US Civil War - because the social issues are what destroy countries far more than economic issues.

No economic justice without social justice. The Religious Right can't live with social justice, because that undermines their worldview that they are the chosen ones, the elect, the right hands of their fearful and fearsome Gawd. No group that has that much investment in maintaining a Status Quo hierarchy will ever risk the corruption of their prophets and lessen their profits.

Haele