Reply #5: But of course that is what the whole "family values" scam is really about [View All]

It was never a bunch of people in love with "hearth and home." The Republican Party actively recruited the bigots when the civil rights act was passed, because it needed voters. Its core values - "money is power; power is everything" did not have broad enough appeal to win elections. So it brought the disillusioned bigots into the fold - Jerry Falwell was a rabid segregationist who brought many - and appealed to the KKK mentality of "hate everyone not exactly like me." Thus the broad appeal to homophobia along with racism and anti-immigration.

This is why we are seeing so much hypocrisy uncovered - the true core values of the ones running for and in office are no more pious or righteous than those of anyone else; in fact, then tend more toward the sociopathic.

They brought the bigots into the fold, and now they have to figure out how to live with them. They aren't put off by the bigotry, since they really don't care a whit about anyone but themselves anyway, but they are learning that even with that large voting bloc they are still struggling. They have had to be more and more aggressive in rigging elections. This whole "democracy" thing is threatening the small group of oligarchists who have been executing this slow-motion coup since the 50's (or, arguably, since the Revolution). That, of course, is why they are tearing down the three-coequal-branches form of government, loading the courts, fighting oversight, and spying on citizens. Their Orwellian world with Big Brother in charge cannot coexist with democracy. It requires the public to be simple-minded automatons spoon-fed what to think and do while Big Brother - a small group of exceedingly wealthy elite - call the shots.