What would you do if crazed fundamentalist republicans took over the country

[Ben]

No overestimation at all.

Think of just the percentage of people who are the "assholes" who embrace hate and inequality, and those who embrace freedom, justice, respect, reason, and science.

There are only a few unintelligent jagoffs that lead the blind unintelligent, which is sad, BUT the amount of people who use reason and science ARE intelligent and there are many.

We have great leaders and teachers, to include Lawrence Krauss, the late great Christopher Hitchens, the late great Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, Michael Shermer, Bill Maher, Penn Jillette, Raymond Teller, James Randi and many, many others.

And a good amount of the names I mentioned...are rich and do contribute ALOT to help guide the world to reason.

[/QUOTE] We have great leaders and teachers, to include Lawrence Krauss, the late great Christopher Hitchens, the late great Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, Michael Shermer, Bill Maher, Penn Jillette, Raymond Teller, James Randi and many, many others. [/QUOTE]

And an addendum: the American people...
Most people are decent and moral.... And all we need is for people to act on their moral and decent impulses.

[tsmirandameadows]

Not a particularly pressing concern for me. If it did happen I would emigrate.

[Ben]

Actually, in all honesty, I'm more worried about the Zombie Apocalypse:

[EvaCassini]

Why worry about zombies?

When we have Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. hehe

[dderek123]

Come to Canada!

[EvaCassini]

Exactly. The addendum of most of the world.

Humans are born with no sense of right and wrong, they have to be taught. As much as I am not a fan of babies ( because of the noises and smells lol ), they aren't born evil. There is no determination, that is why education of history, science, and sociology should be massively taught.

Santayana said, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it".

The morally inept; conservative republicans, tea baggers, religious fanatics, and sociopaths are not educated well enough to be leaders, especially in history ( recent and old ). The only reason why they have high influence on dumb people is because they have lots of money and usually have unusually good speaking skills, and promoting conveyance. They are really analogous of high functioning autistic people.

[dderek123]

Language, common sense, our value system and natural intuition mostly comes from our social conditioning and indoctrination. That's why I believe the BS in the media is influencing the aging electorate in America.

Come to Canada though. Stuff is pretty neat up here.

[Ben in LA]

Just as long as those assholes stay out of California, I'm cool.

[Ben]

Language, common sense, our value system and natural intuition mostly comes from our social conditioning and indoctrination. That's why I believe the BS in the media is influencing the aging electorate in America.

Come to Canada though. Stuff is pretty neat up here.

One big downside --
Shame Shania Twain isn't the PM of Canada. Actually, I've no idea where she stands politically.
But her looks supersede anything she'd do with respect to public policy.
Actually, I'd like Shania as PM of Canada and Madonna as President and then they can engage in some sexy cross-border cunnilingus -- ha ha!

[fivekatz]

Well the idea the fundamentalists could ever have so much influence on the party of the corporations is doubtful.

The next thing frankly is as a wedge issue "the gays" and "the lesbians" catch a lot more of the political thunder because the there are more of them and they are focal point for same sex marriage.

But if the rights of LGBT community are civil rights battle of this age the transgendered community is in terms of political bait for scared old white guys the same as the latino community was in the 1960's civil rights battle.

While the possibility of humans doing inhuman acts to other humans always exists the tide in the US in terms of tolerance in running counter to the "straights" cleansing the earth of those who aren't.