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Democracy Under Assault
Theopolitics, Incivility and Violence on the Right

Michele Swenson

Issues Marking the U.S. Rightward Political Turn

Assaults on Church-State Separation
Christian Reconstructionism
Christian Zionism and Middle East Conflict
Challenges to the Independent Judiciary    Federalist Society
Resurrected Nineteenth Century Science and Socioeconomic Darwinism
Revisionist History          American Theocracy

Male Entitlement: Church & State Preserve Male Prerogatives, Female Punishments Historically to the present, issues have been framed by church hierarchy and government leaders to protect male prerogatives and transgressions, while punishing females for any perceived violation of cultural mores.

Contempt for Women Threatens Their Doctors The right-wing denial of female personhood and conceit that pregnancy is not a health issue for women justifies violence/killing of health care providers.

McCain Opposes Access to Birth Control - Does He Consider it Murder? Unspoken goals of the anti-abortion movement are more far-reaching, and include making birth control illegal.

The CNP Dominionists Who Vetted Sarah Palin The Council for National Policy is a secretive right-wing group of over 500 Christian Dominionists - business, legislators and Religious Right activists - who have met 3 times yearly since 1981 to strategize replacing U.S. democracy with theocracy.

Constitutional Crisis as Tool to Consolidate Political Power on the Right The willingness of religious and political right operatives to precipitate constitutional crises in order to maintain political power.

Forgotten History: 'Original Intent' Supports Abortion Right U.S. criminalization of abortion occurred in 1869. Abortion was politicized when Paul Wyrich adopted the issue as a political litmus test in the '70s.

Pat Robertson's American Theocracy Fundamentalist Christians wage spiritual warfare against 'mainstream' Christians, atheists and other religions.

'Christian Persecution': Corrupted Language,
Degraded Civic Discourse and Subversion of Democracy The political religious right seeks to silence the opposition by demonization, intimidation, naming opponents unpatriotic and anti-Christian for any disagreement with the goal of theocracy.

Federalist Society Assaults on the Independent Judiciary Attempts began in the Reagan administration to stack the courts with Federalist Society advocates and members; to overcome the independent judiciary; and even to precipitate constutitional crisis, in order to achieve political dominance.

Prosperity Theology:
�God�s Chosen� v. the Undeserving Underclass Greed and contempt for the poor is justified by the religious political right in the name of prosperity theology.

�Birth Control Causes Promiscuity� & Other Specious Arguments
Z Magazine May 2006 Protecting male prerogatives and female punishments

Faith-Based Initiatives Faith-based initiatives as a means to proselytize and shift tax-funding to religious welfare programs; Christian Reconstructionists or Dominionists

Religious Undertones of U.S. Iraq Invasion
Bush administration pursuit of Iraq war instead of the Road Map to Peace Description of the Iraq War as a Christian v. Islam conflict; Christian Zionists agitate for Israeli's retention of West Bank lands as biblical precursor to end-times battles.

Grover Norquist: The K St. Project
with Promotion of Chaos and Bankruptcy in the States
in Service of Political Right Agenda Political operatives like Grover Norquist formulate policy to advance an extreme agenda by defunding the left and promoting economic chaos and bankruptcy in the states.

The 'Divinely Ordained' Presidency of George W. Bush Fundamentalist Christians advance the notion of a Christian nation with 'God's chosen' leader, George W. Bush. Christian fundamentalists imply a war between Christians and Muslims, whom they designate 'Islamofascists.'

U.S. Paralysis: The Stranglehold of Big Lobbies Powerful U.S. lobbies write policy that prevents meaningful health care reform and consumer safety oversight of guns

The Psyche of A 'Gunocracy'
by Robert Jay Lifton
Gun-centered ideology of the political right regards violence as a solution to cultural differences

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Democracy Under Assault Theopolitics, Incivility and Violence on the Right

Democracy Under Assault
Theopolitics, Incivility and Violence on the Right