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> [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of Doug Henwood
> Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 4:51 PM
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> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] No, actually, I don't believe it.
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> Seth Ackerman wrote:
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> >But people concerned about "morality" or "values" I think can be won.
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> Some maybe, but I'm afraid to a lot of them "morality" and "values"
> mean a strictly hierarchical taxonomy of social roles, organized
> around race, gender, and nationality. They want fixity in a world of
> flux, and Bush delivers the fantasy. I can't imagine how to fight
> that, but that's the diagnosis.
>
> Doug
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Doug is correct about the worldviews of most of the White Conservative Evangelicals, but John Green, et. al, have found that a clearly articulated sense of economic threat can make them subordinate social issues to self-interest economic concerns. What Rove did was the moral equivalent of the Southern Strategy using gay people as the bait. Fear of a threat to the "traditional family" coupled with a fear of dangerous [dark skinned--Muslim] terrorists was a difficult set of frames to confront.
Chip Berlet
p.s. Wish Chuck0 was still here so I could point out the error of his claim that I was exaggerating the power of the Christian Right...