La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz for March 11, 2014

Good quote.

@Clark Kent

Attribution CK! Attribution!

Quote by Sinclair Lewis. Author of Babbitt, Main Street, and Elmer Gantry.

Agree with Ebsan; great quote.Really excellent presentations of the danger are in American Fascists by Chris Hedges (subtitled “The Christian Right and the War on America”), and in Kingdom Coming by Michelle Goldberg. For a fictional presentation, you could hardly do better than Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents. All four books are thoroughly terrifying.

The Christian Right is neitherVote Democratic We’re not perfect, but they’re nuts.

“When fascism comes to the USA it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”

Complete with blaming groups of people for all the country’s problems. Enforcing the “Us and Them” mentality.

Anyone who knows the slightest about fascism knows it’s not Obama, but the republicans who epitomize it. He’s just a corporatist.And the alternatives (both) would have us in the Greater Depression.

The Religious Right is not all there is to the Right! If Right means tending toward limited government, the Religious Right is hypocritical in their desire to impose their ideas of morality on others by governmental force.

But the secular Right is afraid to speak out on two grounds: first, pragmatically, they don’t want to risk losing the RR’s support; second, ethically, they agree with the millennia-long assumption that religion is the source of morality. The true source of morality is Man’s need for rational principles to guide our lives, not revelations from on high.

To the Religious Right I say that your theocratic dreams are un-American. Resolve your contradictions one way or the other. Either recognize that a free society means that masses of people will always disagree with you and you must accept that, or come right out and admit that your goal is to make everyone obey. At least that would be honest.

You’re right; that’s a great one, too.