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My journey out of the extreme right-wing morass
by duskglow

Wed Jan 25, 2006 at 10:36:16 AM PDT

I want to leave with an observation on what makes the right-wingers tick. Having been one myself, I think I'm unusually qualified to speculate on that.

I believe that they are afraid. That is the overarching thing that drives everything they say and do. It pushes logic out the window, it causes them to temporarily lose track of their values. They are afraid of hell, they are afraid of people who do not believe as they do. They are terrified that the "atheists" will take over. Most things that they do are motivated out of fear, and they will do anything to try to remove or assuage that fear. We are not just battling ideologues - we are battling scared ideologues. And those are the most dangerous kind of all.