The End is Near for the Extremist Wing of the repugican cabal

Through hubris the christian wingnuts have ensured its own demise. 

Jan Brewer's veto is the latest sign that their influence is fading rapidly.…

 

The end is near for the christian wingnuts. No, they are not about to be beamed up into heaven , rewarded for their piousness, on a glorious ride symbolizing the rapture of the cult. Instead, they are about to wither and die as a political movement in the United States, victims of their own hatred and hubris. Yes, for over three decades, theocrats rode an unholy alliance with the repugican cabal to unprecedented heights of power. Ronny Raygun, two shrubs, and hundreds upon hundreds of repugican Senators and Congressmen were their willing enablers.
Big business repugicans, wingnuts, and libertarian economists alike embraced christian fundamentalists as they exploited bigotry and fear to push free market economics and expansionist foreign policies, while giving lip service to school prayer, ending abortion, and preserving traditional marriage from the onslaught of the “homosexual agenda”. Karl Rove exploited christian wingnut bigotry by pushing anti-gay ballot measures in 2004 that would herd evangelical wingnuts to the polls to cast their votes for the shrub. That was a decade ago, when the christian wignut’s influence in American politics was unmistakable and their grip on the repugican cabal iron tight.
However, in the last ten years the christian wingnut’s power has been steadily eroding. Oblivious to their waning influence, wingnut christian covens have soldiered on without any apparent awareness of their impending demise. Perhaps they still do, but yesterday was a watershed moment. The christian wingnuts tried to flex they muscle in Arizona by passing a bill that would codify into law the right for christian-owned businesses to exercise their “religious liberty” to discriminate against gays and lesbians. Many other red states introduced similar measures, though Arizona’s was the first to pass such a bill through both chambers of the legislature.
The christian wingnuts miscalculated badly and failed to anticipate the backlash that would follow. Chamber of Commerce chapters and major corporations based in Arizona balked at the measure, citing the potential for lost tourism revenue and lawsuits. The repugican politicians piled on. Arizona Senators Jeff Flake and John McCain joined the opposition. Florida Governor Rick Scott and 2012 repugican cabal presidential nominee Mitt Romney also rose in opposition. Politicians who had long embraced christian wingnut extremism for politically expedient reasons more than on principal, were now turning on the fundamentalists at the eleventh hour.
Then on Thursday, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, who like most repugican cabal politicians had long courted christian extremists, sealed their fate with her veto pen. In that moment, the lipstick wore off the Judas kiss that the repugican cabal leadership made with christian extremists years ago. The christian wingnuts long wielded disproportionate influence in the halls of Congress, with the likes of Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and James Dobson seducing repugican cabal politicians with promises of fealty and winning them over to socially reactionary policies. Ronny Raygun enthusiastically brought the “moral majority” into his coalition, and since 1980 repugican cabal politicians have relied upon evangelical religio-wingnuts to help propel them to victory. Though they were never a true majority, the bible thumpers on the lunatic fringe were able to bully timid repugican politicians to press their agenda in exchange for contributions and votes.
However, now that bigotry is no longer a recipe for electoral success, the toxic embrace between pro-business repugicans and moralizing troglodytes has been pulled apart. As a political force, the christian wingnuts are unraveling at warp speed. Even the bible belt is unbuckling at a rate that would have been unimaginable just a few years ago. Sure Mike Huckabee and Lush Dimbulb still pollute America’s political discourse with their jeremiads against unseemly gays and promiscuous single women, but their taunts fall mostly on deaf ears outside the shrinking realm of “true believers” who nourish their hateful minds with unhealthy doses of talk radio and FAUX News.
With the tactical brilliance of General George Custer’s Army at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the christian rwingnuts have hastened their own defeat through arrogance and miscalculations that could only be made by people who truly believe they are called by god, and who have no concept of the earthly consequences they are about to face. They are making their last stand in the great American culture war, and they are losing badly. Not only is America becoming more secular and more tolerant, but even mainstream christianity is distancing itself from the lunatic fringe. Even bulwarks of traditionalism, like the mormon and roman catholic church hierarchies are moving away from prejudice and dogmatism.
Increasingly defensive, the christian wingnuts have gone from opposing late-term abortions and lobbying for school prayer to more dubious crusades. They have moved the goal posts so far off the edge that wingnut christians are now arguing for trans-vaginal ultrasounds, banning contraception and granting businesses the right to discriminate against lesbians and gays. With unending persecution complexes, they view themselves under attack, lamenting phony assaults on christianity and a war on Xmas that does not exist. Yet it is they who are launching the attacks by picketing funerals, referring to rape as a gift from god, and blaming homosexuals for terrorist attacks and deadly tornadoes. Twisters, those “acts of god” that raise havoc on “traditional values” strongholds like Oklahoma, Kansas, and Texas, while leaving San Francisco, Portland and Seattle unscathed.
The battle will continue, maybe for years, maybe even decades. However, America has already rendered its judgement. Same sex marriages are now legal in 17 states and on the verge of becoming legal in several more. Millennial voters overwhelmingly support marriage equality. The christian wingnuts can do nothing more but dig their heels in and fight a lost cause. No doubt with self-righteous fervor they will continue to fight to the bitter end, enduring one humiliating defeat after another in the years ahead, as America moves further and further away from the christian wingnut’s outdated prejudices. There will be no sound of trumpets to announce the end of days for the christian wingnuts as a viable political movement, but the end is coming. In fact, it may already be here.