“The Republican Old Guard are in the fix an atheist would be in if Jesus showed up and raised his mother from the dead: Their world view has just been shattered.”
That’s how Frank Schaeffer, Monday’s guest and author of Crazy for God: How I Grew Up As One Of The Elect, Helped Found The Religious Right, And Lived To Take All (Or Almost All) Of It Back begins his latest piece posted at AlterNet. In it he explains why Dick Armey et. al. have sunk to the politics of the gutter and describes the recent healthcare town hall meeting disruptions as the result of a “Fascist formula:”
Here’s the emerging American version of the fascist’s formula: combine millions of dollars of lobbyists’ money with embittered troublemakers who have a small army of not terribly bright white angry people (collected over decades through pro-life mass mailing networks) at their beck and call, ever ready to believe any myth or lie circulated by the semi literate and completely and routinely misinformed right wing — Evangelical religious underground. Then put his little mob together with the insurance companies’ big bucks. That’s how it works — American Brown Shirts at the ready.
It’s “insurance industry funded fascism,” he says, and goes on to suggest what can be done:
“It’s time that this whole shabby (and insane) business be exposed, vilified in run out of town on a rail by whatever responsible Republicans — if any — that are still in the party and who want to see the fortunes of their party revived.”
While we wait until some (any?) Republicans are brave enough to break The Eleventh Commandment, you can watch Rachel Maddow do the exposin’, read more from the piece, and hear Schaeffer live on Liberadio(!) with Mary Mancini & Freddie O’Connell this Monday, August 10, from 7 to 9 am on WRVU 91.1 FM.
