Stolen from slacktivist

[ennierda]

An article on the scary far right Christian people:

http://www.alternet.org/story/46908/

I do often wonder if all of this exporting of well-paying jobs will inevitable cause our economy to collapse.

Comments

just my .02

[labrynthos.livejournal.com]

The engine that drives the radical Christian Right in the United States, the most dangerous mass movement in American history, is not religiosity, but despair. It is a movement built on the growing personal and economic despair of tens of millions of Americans, who watched helplessly as their communities were plunged into poverty by the flight of manufacturing jobs, their families and neighborhoods torn apart by neglect and indifference, and who eventually lost hope that America was a place where they had a future.

I'd like to believe that, except that there are some very intelligent, well-educated individuals in the Far Right movement. Just like most of the hi-jackers and other assorted Al-Qaeda baddies are educated and do not come from impoversed backgrounds.

Still, equally crazy all around...

[wafflebunny.livejournal.com]

Despite what he says, I don't really see any sort of mass despair and nigh-on ghost towns due to manufacturing jobs leaving. Nor any specific connection between the two.

That could be my inherent distrust of alternet though.