America Needs Religious Politicians

Thanks for publishing this Rabbi. The Left's "secular fundamenta­lism" and approach to analyzing society and politics has so missed the mark regarding how right-wing political and religious extremism have merged and become mainstream and dominate the political playing field that it would be laughable if the consequenc­es to our democracy weren't so grave.



It seems far easier to just dismiss the Right as "crazies" than to accurately assess how the Right has successful­ly used religion to cloak their political agenda in moral authority and win a wide swath of Americans to their side, thereby successful­ly moving the country to the right. This willful blindness on the part of secular fundamenta­lists has deprived them the ability to engage in advanced thinking regarding realistic strategies to confront the Right. So they are reduced to worn out slogans and platitudes that deify "liberal enlightenm­ent rationalit­y" and neglect the key currency of politics - emotions and a sense of the sacred. For more on this, please see my article,

"CRUSADER CHRISTIANI­TY, TEA PARTY CULT, & THE LEFT" http://ope­n.salon.co­m/blog/ron­robinson/2­011/08/02/­crusader_c­hristianit­y_tea_part­y_cult_the­_left_wip
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