Blowing the Biggest Political Story of the Last Fifty Years

[elljay]

19. There were several different threads

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That came together to form today's Republican mess. There was the mass shifting of Southern racists to the Republican Party in the early 60s. Next you had the evangelical explosion of the 70s, where mainstream Protestant churches declined and Jerry Falwell ruled. The evangelicals then began getting involved in politics, which they hadn't done in large numbers before, hence the Moral Majority. The upper class Republicans, in their arrogant superiority, had a great idea to merge these groups together and manipulate them to support an agenda that only benefited the rich. As that agenda became implemented, it created a larger class of disenfranchised working people who were slipping down the rungs of the ladder. These people were fed into the Republican stream by acquiring huge chunks of our media and feeding them propaganda of hate and fear. The rich assumed that they would be able to control these people but boy did they miscalculate. To me, the issue is not how we got here, but what can be done to improve things. How do you get millions of heavily armed, fearful and uninformed people who hate any sources of factual information to rejoin civilization?