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Politics : The Left Wing Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cosmicforce who wrote (3264)	1/18/2001 1:55:37 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 6089

I keep doing a double-take when I see "Xian." My first thought is always of the city in China with the terra cotta army. Seeing them was an awesome experience. I recommend it highly. The right in this country is dominated by and unified by Christianity That certainly seems to be the case. I know hardly any religious people let alone fundamentalists so I'm probably not in the best position to assess the situation. But I wonder if that group is as impenetrably monolithic as it seems. I can certainly see how the excesses of the left could push the privately religious into the arms of the religious zealots. I don't see why that tie couldn't be loosened. I really don't know. But I find the religious zealots so scary that I think it's worth a try. Karen

To: cosmicforce who wrote (3264)	1/18/2001 2:12:26 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6089

The right in this country is dominated by and unified by Christianity. I somewhat disagree with that, though "the right" is a vague enough term that it works, I guess. Personally, I'd say the Republican party is dominated by money, but they have to do something to broaden their base. Advertising your primary role as serving the interests of the rich has some problems. So, you get the updated Nixon "Southern strategy", where you play off people's fears on race and religion to get them behind you. Historically, I'd say the roots go way back before Nixon to the antebellum South, where most southern white people didn't own slaves or benefit very much from the peculiar institution, but were willing to fight and die for it nevertheless. Of course, officially they weren't fighting for "slavery", it was "states' rights" or Southern honor or something. . Ashcroft sort of brings all the threads together, I think. Cheers, Dan.