What's so surprising is that this has all been so blatant. Big Dirge isn't a "wingnut" really, or probably even very "far out" for his party's positions. The schism between us and them is growing, and iot seems (to this observer) to be a basic difference in opinion in what constitutes reality.
To me, religion plays a major role in all of this, especially fundamentalism, in any religion. Once people accept as factual reality things that are incongruent, then they've found ways to rationalise incongruent beliefs, which easily transfers to other areas. There are differences between the moral truths found in the Bible, and the necessity for the exact facts to be historically true. Most sane people understand that these writings were not written down until many decades after the death of Jesus, and the likelihood of exact quotations is extrememly small. Still, we hear people say they believe in the Bible, exactly as it is written. Well, I'd feel a whole lot better about hearing that if they KNEW the first bloody thing about HOW it was written, when it was written or why. They don't, and it pisses me off.
So we have a massive portion of the population whose Holy fervor has been aroused by these pop-topics of abortion and gay marriage, and all of a sudden, they are incapable of determining that their leaders are using their fervor and passion to pass laws against the good of the human race as a whole, and America specifically.
None of these fucktards are going to take responsibilty for supporting these collapses of freedom, because they really can't understand how they are connected. We are all paying for the stupidity of the American people- and I mean the whole world. George Bush will be remembered as a tyrant, once those who stand to gain financially are no longer writing the legacies. That is cold comfort to us living now, but it is undeniable to anyone who can look outside their own beliefs to the writings of history. The next generation won't give a fuck about some war-mongering fool who granted positions of power to his incompetent friends and shot holes into the fabric of the Constitution. Fuck that guy, and everyone who allowed this to happen. Fuck the republicans who aren't taking responsibility still.
Fuck the religious, who with their "best intentions" are still allowing atrocities to occur.