Hi!
I have blogged about this several times on Kos but last night I heard the most frightening I have heard. I watched Rachel Maddow and she did an interview with a man named Jeff Sharlet who wrote a book titled "The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power". This book is about a group of republican senators and others (Governor Mark Sanford at times and John Ensign a lot) who stay at a house in Washington that is very secretive and they call it a church. Sharlet went "undercover" to do the book and has video of their preacher talking to them.
On the show Sharlet told Maddow that the preacher has convinced these men that they are above the rest, they can have anything they want, they can do no evil as everything they do is fine by God as they are the "chosen" ones. One example the man used was to ask the senators what they though he (the preacher) would think if they told him that they had "forced themselves" on 3 little girls. One of the men said that he thought the preacher would think it terrible. The preacher said, no, it would be fine because they are "above the rest and can do anything they want". My question is below.
The book also reveals that this house is owned by a very large sect of a group that plans to take over America and run it as their church. So It would be like America had become one large family cult where anyone who disagrees with them would be killed.
I know this sounds crazy. But I have followed this cult for a long time. They are powerful, their people are completely brainwashed, they number in the millions and my sister has been one of them for 20 years.
I did not know about this group of Senators at the top and this house. They are the group who supposedly would control everything.
I do not know what it would take to overthrow the government but this preacher tells them they have to study Hitler, Stalin, and other dictators.
My question is this.... I am an older person. This frightens me, not so much for me but for the people I know and love and young people who will one day live in this America. I know that my neighbors have never heard any of this, I do not know a single person who knows any of this. Are people even aware that this group is out there?
They are the most bizarre, far right wing of fundamentalists, do you know about them?
Even now I don't think they have the ability to take over America. But if the republicans get back into power in the Senate or the White House they will. And the republicans are pounding on the fact that the President is failing. Independents are now less likely to support him and I am afraid there is a chance they can win. What do you think? How many voting young people are aware of any of this?
Link to Rachel Maddow show:
http://www.youtube.com/...
Sorry posted the wrong link first time