Gary North on the Religious Right
Salient, as always:
"To the extent that the Christian Right corporately accepts the idea that there is any good reason to get involved in national politics, it is responsible for its share of the outcome. But what share? That of a swing voting bloc. It has not formulated the policies it votes for. It has not organized the media's machine. It does not have any experience at the national level. It does not have much disposable income. It has only one institution of acknowledged excellence: Wycliffe Bible translators. It has sat in the back of humanism's bus since 1926, and without protest until 1980....
There has been only one man in my lifetime who has had an outside possibility of reversing this: Ron Paul. If, in 2008, he offers to his digital name base a full-scale, non-partisan training program for local political mobilization – what I have called the dogcatcher strategy – we might actually get a choice a decade or two from now."
"To the extent that the Christian Right corporately accepts the idea that there is any good reason to get involved in national politics, it is responsible for its share of the outcome. But what share? That of a swing voting bloc. It has not formulated the policies it votes for. It has not organized the media's machine. It does not have any experience at the national level. It does not have much disposable income. It has only one institution of acknowledged excellence: Wycliffe Bible translators. It has sat in the back of humanism's bus since 1926, and without protest until 1980....
There has been only one man in my lifetime who has had an outside possibility of reversing this: Ron Paul. If, in 2008, he offers to his digital name base a full-scale, non-partisan training program for local political mobilization – what I have called the dogcatcher strategy – we might actually get a choice a decade or two from now."
