by El Zorro Viejo (aka; Jim)

[Spotted in slacktivist > http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2004/11/worldview_windo.html]

These folks are the lunatic fringe. But as we found out yesterday, the lunatic fringe is now in the driver's seat. The election, it turns out, wasn't about terrorism or the war in Iraq. It wasn't about fiscal insanity and crippling budget deficits, two-tiered health care and education systems, the death of American manufacturing and staggering trade imbalances, an increasingly regressive tax system, the rape of the environment or the permanent jobless economy.

This election was about god. The small-"g," small god of the small-minded, small-hearted, small people of aggressively little faith. These people have misled Christians, replacing the church -- the community of believers in the Way -- with a fearful, hateful, band of chauvinists unable to recognize the contradiction between their triumphalism and their imagined "persecution."

This is as good an assessment of the election as I have seen to date. We should be very afraid.

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