Why I hate Right Wing Christians

[abaris]

The USA is dangerously right-skewed, politically, compared to the rest of the modern world, to the point that most of our "centrist" Democrats would be considered conservative by a wide measure in any other democracy (I would count Hillary Clinton in that group.)

Clinton is a bit liberal on social issues, but on all other counts, she would be in the Margaret Thatcher region in Europe. Obama, barring his war record, would be considered a moderate conservative.

As for the US being dangerously right-skewed, the whole western world is moving in that direction. And by that I certainly don't mean conservatism, which, at it's base, can be a centrist position. Best contemporary example, Angela Merkel in Germany. Although I don't share her economical view, she still endorses humanism, and I could vote for her. In fact, most of the German parties are electable. The only obvious exemption being the rightwing AFD.

Can't say the same about our own politicians and parties, from left to right, the only exemption being the Green Party. All the others have their pants full of the extreme right and try to divert voters by being as primitive and bigoted as them. Hungary has already fallen, Poland too and the Czech republic is on it's best way to follow suit.

So, the extreme right raises it's ugly head everywhere. Nationalism is back with a vengeance. Not only in the USA. And the funny, or actually not so funny thing is, that all these rightwingers appeal to what they call christian heritage. So it's a religious right we're talking about.