Reply #1: you describe only one sector

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of the right.
don't doubt for a minute the passion of the religous right, bigots, etc.
they are, it's true, being used by corporate facists -- but it works the other way as well. i.e. bush's nominations for the judiciary.
it's a case of the ''non-believing'' political and economic elite using the ''virtuous'' citizenry. it's machiavellian.