Regarding moderate Republicans, a reader writes:
“Only if the believers stop believing, are willing to realize that their faith is taking them down the wrong road, will the Republicans begin to recover their sanity.”
Well said. Religious ideologues have no motivation to compromise, ever, on anything as they are convinced of their moral and intellectual rightness.
Perhaps only by providing good education to young people (to learn critical thinking skills), so that they can question the “teachings” and conventional thoughts of their religious elders, and then waiting a couple of generations, will enough conservatives ever be swayed from this falsely “superior” position. In the meantime, the country will continue to flounder, instead of solving its problems. Most Republicans are just too ignorant, short-sightend or close-minded to actually do the right thing to save the country from further difficulties.
Perhaps not Republicans, perhaps fundamentalists might be a better descriptor. I know moderate Republicans – including friends of mine – who were ejected from the Party over the last thirty years. Very sane, good people – told they no longer belonged. It really has been a takeover of a major party, as Goldwater feared.
