(Here's Andrew Sullivan, reknown Liberal, egging the future rioters on. After having lived through Watts twice, Detroit,and Newark as well, you know whats coming when the entitlement generation, who have never had to work, sacrifice, or deny themselves anything to achieve some unspecified goal, get what they've been accustomed to thinking is rightfully theirs taken away. The Latinos who have currently had the threat of deportation lifted for now, when they realize the threat might be reimposed will react and join their supposedly disenfranchised rioting brethren on the streets.)
Guy Benson
"Andrew Sullivan: I Fear a Civil War if These Christianists Beat Obama, or Something!
This from the scribe who's devoted an inordinate amount of time over the last three years to indulging a bizarre conspiratorial obsession with Sarah Palin's uterus. His new admonition: Be careful what you wish for, wingnuts -- an Obama loss in 2012 could trigger a neo Civil War. Scary, right? We'll tackle this conclusion in a moment, but first, Sully sets the table with some (now familiar) anti-religious sociological psychobabble:
...The GOP, deep down, is behaving as a religious movement, not as a political party, and a radical religious movement at that. Lofgren sees the "Prosperity Gospel" as a divine blessing for personal enrichment and minimal taxation (yes, that kind of Gospel is compatible with Rand, just not compatible with the actual Gospels); for military power (with a major emphasis on the punitive, interventionist God of the Old Testament); and for radical change and contempt for existing institutions (as a product of End-Times thinking, intensified after 9/11).
Heavy stuff. Next, he primes the pump with some breathless religious warfare rhetoric:
[Our current] political deadlock conceals a religious war at its heart. Why after all should one abandon or compromise sacred truths? And for those whose Christianity can only be sustained by denial of modern complexity, of scientific knowledge, and of what scholarly studies of the Bible's origins have revealed, this fusion of political and spiritual lives into one seamless sensibility and culture, is irresistible. And public reminders of modernity - that, say, many Americans do not celebrate Christmas, that gay people have human needs, that America will soon be a majority-minority country and China will overtake the US in GDP by mid-century - are terribly threatening."
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