Why are conservatives,republicans,and christians becoming more fascist in America?
359239
Because theyre fearful and buy into stereotypes. pretty easy to manipulate in that way. That's why Bush uses a lot of religious connotations. Fear helps in leading the masses.
1117284
I understand your point.  I think it has to do with the fact that people are intensely stuck into categorizing. If a person considers him or herself to be liberal. They will normally take a harsh view on a conservative question that is not asked in a meaningful way. Or the other way, if a liberal question starts off with "why did bush kill our soldiers?" you will get an angry response from the right. That is why I asked the question that you answered. We have always been a society of labels. As far back as this countries founding there were labels on people for their political views or origin. Today it just takes an ever so hateful view and ignorance.
737117
In the USA the people are not puritan in their religious feelings and specially the Christians. Mostly they are Protestants and the American Catholics are unlike their British and Roman counterparts not that attached to the Pope at Rome. But both the Bush are at their personal level very loyal to the Pope. The Republican Party has nothing to do with this. Though on personal level while occupying such an important office Bush was helping lots of fund raising for the Pope for conversion by Missionaries operating in India. Now it may get affected from 2008 when Bush would be demitting office at White House. But it is a long way to go!
1112642
We are already into fascism and yes it is because the American public was stupid and voted Bush into office.
945148
The Republican Party has acquired the same attitude most right wing political groups throughout recent history. The Nazi Socialist Party of Pre-war Germany, The right wing fascists of Italy and South America all expressed the jingoistic rhetoric so familiar to the "Family Values" the Republicans have pushed their agenda with for the last six years. They firmly believe that they know what is best for the rest of the people of their country and even the world. They do not try to take into account the knowledge of others, particularly educated people who make it their careers to know these things. They are so convinced that they know what the people need that they will not, and do not take the opinions of others into account, regardless of the expertise of these "other" people. If that is not the earmark of an aristocracy then what is. No matter what you call it, these people have pushed their agenda on the rest of us so often and for so long that it is a fearful thing to see them gain power again, because they will once again try to impose their twisted outlook onto the political scene and drive this country into another effort to resist change. Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Pearl some of the early archetects of the the Republican Neo-Conservative movement expressed that they needed an incident similar to Pearl Harbor (therefore, the 9/11 incident ) to give us the opportunity to bring the Country (USA) in the direction we want it to go. They wrote that 16 yeaars before 9/11. The definition of Time is "the measure of change." Change is inevitable in the nature of things. To fight it is futile. The dinosaurs, and 99% of all species that have ever existed have passed from the reality of existence because they could not adapt. Man is not exempt from that equastion. Liberalism is simply an expression that all the answers are not known. Therefore, trying to adapt to the changing political environment.is imperative, and trying to understand new aspects of the worlds' behavior is a constant part of a politician's responsibility. Failure is an option, it is always an option in politics. learning from failure is a large part of life itself. We must be willing to look for our answers among the peoples of the world. It might not be the best solution for us at this time but it might be the best when looked at in the context of the whole world. We are 5% of the population of the world using 30% of its resouses, how long can that last?.Instead we find the arrogance of the aristioracy constantly trying to halt the march of the political fortunes of the world and force it into its own perception of what is to be. This has driven us to enter into war with Iraq.with an ending that is nothing less then the outcome of the Viet Nam conflict. Total failure! They have not learned even the simplist lessons that cost us the lives of 58,219 of America's finest. Talk to those brave men and women and ask them if the current Republicans are not an aristocrocy.
299398
Um yea, they have been planning the hijacking of the conservative party for decades. Time for everyone to wakeup. These people are paranoid, suicide politicans that think we are in the end times and will stop at NOTHING to force the coming of Christ as they see it.\n\nhttp://www.thefourreasons.org/
1097432
No, neo-cons are smiting America.  If they weren't doing the smiting, someone else would be.
254348
Please read the last few lines after you read through this for a probable answer. (Thanks for reading me)\n\nThe US is undergoing some kind of a morality trauma. There are one or two issues which are the undercurrent in present US politics which are overtaking economic issues like unemployment or war on terror. \n\nThis is my opinion and I could be wrong.\n\n1. Anti Morality and Gay sentiments- The "good old" Amercians are shocked by the way amercian soceity is going and want to stop this trend. There are excesses on the moral front- like gay marriages issue. The Democrats seem to support gay marriages. They are the "Liberals" liberal to social issues of homosexuality, drugs, abortion. \n\nRecently, Arnold the Governator made a brilliant statement and cleverly avoided controversy and supported the conservatives on gay marriages. \n\n2. some recent court judgements on "secularism" The US public are getting alarmed by so called "secular trends" happening in US. For example the judgement on "Ten Commandments" by a US court. The conservatve American is aghast that Christian values are getting diluted. The Republican President George Bush represents a Church going- Christian of stable character, or thats the image he has. So when it comes to ballot, average American PERHAPS trusts George Bush rather than gay- sympathiser, "secular" democrats. \n\nSo as Bush put it in his speech, "If you are not with us, you are against us!"  So if you are not with Bush, you must be a Liberal!
1148432
REPUBLICANS don't want money for our nation,, they want $ in their own pockets... they spread HATRED behind a veil of Christendom
1178387
Good question!  I'm not sure, but it would seem that liberals are taking over the Democratic party and making it too far left for most conservative people that are still Democrats and many Republicans have taken a far right stance because it's becoming predominantly conservative and moral.  It's not a good reflection of either party too far either way and it's sad.
1095154
You can't be! That's like being a Catholic Jew...you either believe something or you don't.  There is no gray area.  I think that is America's problem...they vote for the "perks" of whatever it is that is being promised by the two parties (tax cuts, better employment opps, etc.), but not because of the moral beliefs of either party.  And we wonder, when we take God out of the equation, why America seems to get worse as the decades go on...
471121
Americans. A dangerous precedent has been set by the recent criminal republicans that question any form of dissent and if you are brave enough to disagree with their ideology, you are labeled as anti-American, or subversive. This hysterical reaction starts with Bush and his Goons and trickles down to the local levels of government. Of course this is more pervasive in certain areas of the country, i.e. bible belt. Their will be a lot of healing needed with our next president as this one has caused our country serious damage with his flawed ideology. The deprogramming of America begins in 2008.
968137
America has been secular for a long time. Consumerism is our true national religion.\n\nI don't think religion is growing, I just think that fundamentalist evangelical Christianity is becoming more extreme, visible, and well-organized.\n\nAlso, Americans are on average more stupid and ignorant than they have been in a long time- far behind the rest of the 'first world' in education and cultural literacy- so there is plenty of room for faith to fill in where reason is absent.
688953
No its your brain. Its the belief systems that create the divisiveness. Americans have always taken sides based on what they believe. Their party affiliation is a result of those beliefs not the other way around.
467913
First of all you have got to remove the conservative racist from Government. They have built there whole campaign around it, by saying America should be Evangelist Christians, and everybody else is trash.
329043
KKK is a good start and the NEO_CON"s are another, Skinheads are another, Confederates are another. Republicans in general. It is legal Racism of the rights's Christian Church, they do it in the name of God.
1074465
the total sum of U.S politics is indefinable with a single word, the U.S contains a diversity of opinion from communist parties to fascist parties. However if you want to generalize; well just look at the government they elected, neo-realist / neo-conservative politicians, the same creed that have always maintained a vice like grip on the central executive. You also have to look at the party system, there is only one party in America, the corporate nexus party, the republicans and democrats just have different business interests. There is also the factor of religion, we are talking about a nation of self hating puritans - extremely conservative, racist, armed to the teeth and afraid of anything new or different. I suppose if you were to compare America with other liberal democracies in Europe, it;s clearly the most conservative. I am personally disgusted by the patriotic sensationalism bound to American culture, it's not their fault but it's still pretty repugnant, Americans are generally raised as flag waving, god fearing, isolated, and extremely ignorant young people, and this simply has to change if the world is to stand a chance, it's the most important country in world politics - they need to start getting things right.