This cartoon is completely correct, but for a completely different set of reasons. Many right wingers feel that the GOP is not doing enough to push for certain promised initiatives.
It's mostly a product of the last few decades, when the conservative christian leaders were able to mobilize their congregations to vote in large numbers, larger numbers than the non-conservative christians.
I would date the switch to around 1980. That's when conservatives truly got their act together and started influencing politics on a large scale. Before then, more moderate people controlled the party.
True that. Previously conservatives had a much more libertarian bent, keeping government from controlling the lives of individuals. The religious right made a major change to this though, because they seek to use the federal government to force their idea of a moral standard on all individuals.
Right around when the Christian Coalition or whatever they felt like calling themselves decided that they didn't like the liberal policies of the 60s/70s, got together, and made themselves a major force in the Republicans. Around 1980ish is when it was started.
That plus the latent conservatism in the republcians yields a neocon.
Don't classify all republicans as the Christian Right or as neocons, because it just ain't true. (And the small government conservative republicans are kinda riled- I'd guess the republicans are gonna split because of it)
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Date: 2006-10-15 02:52 am (UTC)I believe he'd be disgusted with both parties, stay home, and smoke pot.
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*Jesus was a hippie*
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Date: 2006-10-14 12:24 am (UTC)Dude, the founding fathers would be so pissed if they could see us right now.
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Date: 2006-10-17 07:24 pm (UTC)That plus the latent conservatism in the republcians yields a neocon.
Don't classify all republicans as the Christian Right or as neocons, because it just ain't true. (And the small government conservative republicans are kinda riled- I'd guess the republicans are gonna split because of it)
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