Sunday Sermon: "Crazy for God"

(big h/t to Heather at Crooks & Liars)

In this remarkable video, "Crazy for God" author Frank Schaeffer breaks down the entire Republican Party in eight minutes.

The son of one of the the founding families of the Religious Conservative movement, I heard him talking several weeks ago on NPR and wanted to roll my windows down and drag people over to my car to hear his unique, insider's revelations about the "hard assed, neo-fascist" Right.

Urge them to take a listen to the words of someone who was at all the secret meetings -- who had the brain caste of the Theocon Right sleeping on his dad's couch -- tell those truths that we on the Left have usually been able to describe only by reverse-engineering: by tracking who was given power on the Right, what they did with that power and what kinds of dog-whistle rhetoric they used when shopping their radically anti-freedom, anti-American agenda to the public.

And that is what is so interesting about Schaeffer's words; that they will not be particularly shocking to the Left or to the hard Right. We both know this shit backwards and forwards -- one side working hard to bring it to the attention of the public, and one side spending billions to hide their real agenda until it is too late.

Who this really fucks up are the the Right's allies in the media: the "both sides are equally wrong" douchebags. The rotely contrary "independent" voter and "objective" journalist whose whole schtick is the lazy, cowardly, lucrative pretense that no matter deeply destructive and insane the Right is shown to be over and over and over and over again, that somehow, some way, the Left Must Always Be equally and oppositely wrong.

To them this is terrifying because it leaves them no out. No "Yeah, but, see, uh, something something Bill Clinton's penis" escape hatch.

It stands then naked before two clearly marked doors, and says "Pick One!".

And for those who grovel at the altar of Reflexive Centrism, there can be no greater nightmare than that.