The Idiocracy is at Your Door

My last child was born in 1968. I was a merry little homemaker then; oblivious to any untoward signs of national insanity.

Life was good. Religion was in the churches, and politics pretty much stayed in Washington, D.C., or in the local village and state government houses.

Except for the rotten residual of Viet Nam, the crazies who said Apollo 11 was a hoax and the singularly fascinating presidency of Richard Nixon, there was a normality about the times that seems eerily archaic. 

Little did I dream that was the beginning of the end of an entire era of rational thinking.

The late '60s and early '70s marked the beginning of a new form of life for America - the land of freedom of (and from) religion was exiting and those favoring a  Theocracy were (unbelievably!) gaining a foothold.

This is when televangelism reared its ugly heads - lotsa, lotsa heads: Jimmy Swaggart (the sexual deviant), Jim Bakker (another one), Pat Robertson and James Falwell, et al. 

The immoral Moral Majority took off on the wings of TV, the Charismatic Movement, unspeakable greed and the naivete of "just plain folks" (the heart of America) who believe anyone who can memorize and launch full throated homilies from the Christian Bible, often while weeping,  is to be believed about any aspect of life.

Especially when they tell you all you have to do is pray for the material things that every good Christian deserves and God, or Jesus, or the televangelist will provide them.....just send cash,  keep going to church and vote against anyone who wants to give your tax dollars to the undeserving poor.

And therein lies the genius of these forerunning foot soldiers of God: It's all in the voting. Who'd a thunk it?  Starting with school boards, community projects, village and state positions and ultimately the state houses, the U.S. House of Representatives, the Senate and, holy Nellie, the Presidency of the United States of America. God in his wisdom is running the country....right into the ground.

Back then I didn't pay much attention to the televangelists bleating for money and agitating for governmental representation. I figured every normal person was ignoring it. Maybe they were. But maybe we are now in a vast left wing minority of normality - and we ignore this at our peril.


Beware, normal people. The Apostolic Reformation has begun and it promises to take us to an Idiocracy the likes of which have not been seen since the Inquisition.

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