The talk on MS-NBC tonight was all about the religious right. Is the religious right over as a dominant force? Are Huckabee and Romney splitting the religious right vote? Has the Republican Party matured past the social issues to accept a McCain? (Yes, sez I, to all).
I wish the journalists would be even a fraction so candid about the religious forces in the Democratic camp, the Israel lobby, the Jewish vote, Jewish money, and so on. These forces are just as important as the religious right, probably more important, as they are helping to burn down the Middle East in the name of a clash of civilizations, even as they push for stem-cell research. Yet journalists are still afraid to bring them up, partly because they know the Democratic religious types and don’t see them as nuts–no, they’re secular–where they don’t know many evangelicals, and can easily caricature them.
I keep predicting that things are changing for the better. And they are. It’s just taking a while…
