Zone1 The Con At The Core Of The Republican Party

[skews13]

Conason devotes several chapters to the capture of the modern religious right by men and women who welded Christianity to massive moneymaking schemes. He explains how Jerry Falwell Sr. created Liberty “University,” which became a business model for tax-exempt Christo-capitalism—a model his son, Jerry Jr., would expand and then explode, but not before urging his flock to get in line behind a blasphemous, immoral scoundrel for president.

The arrival of the TV as remote church collection basket in every American living room inaugurated a new era for the prosperity gospel. The fake TV businessman who had fooled millions into thinking he was the second coming of Jack Welch was the secular version of televangelist grifter. “What drew the prosperity preachers and their congregations to Trump, eventually joined by millions of white evangelicals, was how much he resembled the televangelists who were the most successful among them,” Conason writes.

The Con at the Core of the Republican Party

The conservative movement’s total abandonment of even the appearance of principles has been decades in the making.

newrepublic.com

 

[rightwinger]

The Con of Republicans is the complete suspension of reality

Don’t like the facts……make up your own
Deny what people have just seen for themselves
Embrace Conspiracy Theories

 

[elektra]

Sounds like you are talking about the un-democratic party

 

[Oddball]

Sounds like you are talking about the un-democratic party

Sounds an awful lot like Barry the Boiking, sans the "Christo-capitalism".

Hopey-changey!

 

[peacefan]

Conason devotes several chapters to the capture of the modern religious right by men and women who welded Christianity to massive moneymaking schemes. He explains how Jerry Falwell Sr. created Liberty “University,” which became a business model for tax-exempt Christo-capitalism—a model his son, Jerry Jr., would expand and then explode, but not before urging his flock to get in line behind a blasphemous, immoral scoundrel for president.

The arrival of the TV as remote church collection basket in every American living room inaugurated a new era for the prosperity gospel. The fake TV businessman who had fooled millions into thinking he was the second coming of Jack Welch was the secular version of televangelist grifter. “What drew the prosperity preachers and their congregations to Trump, eventually joined by millions of white evangelicals, was how much he resembled the televangelists who were the most successful among them,” Conason writes.

The Con at the Core of the Republican Party

The conservative movement’s total abandonment of even the appearance of principles has been decades in the making.

newrepublic.com

when in Rome, act like the Romans?
there's nothing wrong with emulating the leaders of a flock in search of a politician.
kamala does it all the time.
her pro-palestine adopted views will ensure that that conflict goes on for at least decades more.