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A theocratic Christian state in the last 200 years? None come to mind. Of course if you go back further you will find many of them, but the secularization of Western governments (one of those evil librul concepts) did away with them. Boo theocracy, hooray Enlightenment!
“Can you think of an example of a Republican of the religious right who “calls for national unity based on religion, nationalism, militarism, autocracy, corporatism, tolitariansim, and the unitary executive?”
Yes. George W. Bush, his administration, and his supporters.
Religion: Public prayer in school, 10 Commandments everyplace, the constant declaration that we are a “Christian Nation”, Intelligent Design, White House Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, the constant, bi-annual sucking-up to the Religious Right, anti-abortion and anti-gay laws, and the constant expressed desire to base American secular law on the Bible. In fact, Mike Huckabee said a couple of months ago that the Constitution was inferior to the Bible and must be amended to be in with it, for which he got robust cheers.
Nnationalism: America, love it or leave it, America’s the greatest country on the globe, America’s the greatest country ever, we have the best health care system, if you criticize America you’re an America-hater, evil liberals should just get out of America. You can find many examples just on this Web page if you scroll up.
Autocracy: hmmm, I made a mistake here, for this topic was covered under “unitary executive”. I was thinking of a oligarchy, which is what we’re getting thanks to corporate consolidation and the Reagan and Bush tax cuts.
Corporatism: Washington is awash in lobbyists who outnumber legislators about 800 to 1, industries are writing legistation for Congress (usually Republicans) that gets put into bills as written, the replacement of traditionally government services with corporate contactors (privatization), subsities and tax breaks for transnational corporations, and the removal of laws and regulations that corporations find inconvenient such as environmental laws.
Tolitarianism: Extensivie corruption and politicalization of the federal and several state governments for partisan political purposes, electioneering and election fraud, partisan congressional redistricting, domination of the media, denial and disregard for Constititonal rights and personal liberties such as habeas corpus, and creation of a surveillence society.
Unitary executive: Bush, specifically, has been using this theory to ignore Congress and the law because that would infringe upon his executive power. Signing statesments used as line-item vetoes are one aspect of this theory.
Of course, this is all to keep us safe from terrorists, as Bush and Company never ever ever fail to remind us.
