Marriages Made Madly

EXACTLY WHY a huge majority of fundamentalist Christians are far right conservatives politically remains a mystery. Speculation abounds. The message of Jesus is diametrically opposed to the Republican party platform, despite the absence of any such document. The conservative evangelical Republican Trump movement (CERT for short), has now outdone itself in forming a new alliance, as it is now allied with, of all things, the anti-vaxx-conspiracy theory community, a substantial demographic. Maybe it was meant to be, a marriage made in mutual madness. After all, within this crazy coalition, one part is about as wacky as another. The conspiracy community includes such insane notions as the big election lie, vaccinations as mind control, and many which involve extraterrestrials. The more fantastic, the better. There is a certain number of anti-vaxx spokespeople who go on tour and draw big crowds,have large folowings, and are overwhelmingly of MAGA/CERT stock. All of the famous spokespeople, people like JFK Junior are well aware of this tendency of their messsage to attract conservatives, and make their presentations accordingly, mixing anti-vaxx lunacy with mainstream right wing dogma and lunacy; freedom from government tyranny, the whole Trumpist thing. The anti-vaxxer cult leaders are more than happy to harvest conservative souls; they're not picky. The ultimate impact of the integration of the conspiracy folks with the G.O.P. remains to be seen. The unification of Trumpism, conservatism, evangelicalism, and anti-vaccination-ism produces, arguably, a strange batch of motley crew bedfellows at best, a monstrous terroristic behemoth at worst. This could be an opportunity for the Democrats, who have a lot to campaign against. They can, for example, force teh Republicans to either formally embrace conspiracy theory, including Trump's big election lie and subsequent insurrection, or to formally renounce them. Sticky, either way, having heretofore strongly supported all the above. The right wing wants to insall a Christian theocracy in the U.S. in which the government has no control over the economy, poverty, or unemployment, but much control over human reproduction. That, as well as supporting Trump's lies and insurrection. Quite a platform to run on. As we say, good luck with that. I for one am willing to campaign against that any day of the week. we have seen how Turmp and his ideologically repuslive, deplorable cult followers repel and alienate our traditional American allies, especially Europe. We are repairing the damge, but must never allow Trump style nationalistic America first America alone policy to rear its ugly head again. They can keep sticking with their white heterosexual Christian males plus their right wing white women minority base, while the Democrats will be happy to mainatin their base of well educated smart Americans, plus ethnic minorities, plus the working poor. Sharks and jets. May the better gang prevail.