The "Religious" Right. Was It REALLY Bush's "Base?"

The Big CON: The "Religious Right" as Bush's "Base."

Here are the Indisputable FACTS.

It has been well-documented by 11-02-04's accurate exit polls that only 17.16% of those who went to the polls voted for Bush on the basis of so-called "moral" issues.

(Derived thus: 22% voted primarily of the basis of "values," and 78% of those who did so voted for Bush... for a total of 17.16% voters who voted for "values" from the standpoint of REPRESSING liberties. The remainder voted for Kerry, having defending personal liberties as their most important issue.) That means that 82.64% of those who voted for Bush -- for Bush! -- not voters overall -- voted for him for OTHER reasons than "values" being foremost. For them, if "values" were an issue for some, they took back burner position to such relevant issues as the war and the economy. Thus, the "values-voter" control-freaks who voted for Bush were outnumbered by those who voted for him based upon relevant issues by a ratio of about six to one.

(Bush can consider himself very lucky that 82.84% of his voters actually were obtuse enough to vote for him based on any issues, considering what a proven dishonest and thug-employing warmonger he is.) (It's like the "Mirror" in the UK astutely asked: "How can 59,054,087 Americans be so DUMB?")

That's the KINDEST possible cut to the bigots. But another aspect to the reality of all of this comes from factoring in the voters who went for Kerry... virtually NONE of whom (obviously) did so in hopes of seeing the above repressive agendas being supported.

Let's use these total vote tallies (which each increased somewhat since they first were reported, but the percentages didn't change)...

Bush .... 59,459,785
Kerry .... 55,949,407
Nader ........ 400,706

...and omit Nader, since I haven't seen exit polls regarding how "moral"-issues-voters related to voting for him. If I could include those votes in this analysis, though, it probably would be even WORSE for the bigots, since Nader supporters tend to siphon off more would-be Democratic votes than Republican ones. So that's a point worth remembering.

17.16% of Bush's vote works out to 10,203,299, using the above tallies. 0% neocons voting for Kerry, of course, is zilch, numbers-wise. So -- without factoring in the irresponsible losers who were eligible to vote, but didn't, that means that out of a total
of115,409,192 votes actually cast for Bush and Kerry on 11-2-04, only a mere 8.84% were cast by neocon/RRR cult-type "values" voters; i.e., voters who had NO regard for some of out most important personal liberties.

Then it REALLY goes downhill fast for those pathetic bigots!

Those who didn't vote, even though they were eligible to, no doubt included some passive/apathetic sympathizers to the RRR cult's agendas. But, for however many of those there may have been, those neocons were of the harmless variety that are of no concern at all for fair-minded and egalitarian defenders of human rights. Why? Because for a person to pose ANY kind of threat to human rights, they must to SOME degree be activists in that respect.

Consider the fact that pretty much the easiest way to be an activist in the most minimal degree these days is to VOTE. Why? Because recently it has become universally possible, in America, to vote by mail, or ahead of time in person, or via absentee ballot. So when a person doesn't even make that minimal an effort to support agendas that interest them, then they have proven their passivity on these issues. So the percentages of bigots among those voters doesn't matter, since passive bigots are not the sort of bigots that anyone needs to be concerned with.

Thankfully, even with everything else that Bush has done to America since his cronies (along with his own dishonesty) slipped him into the back door of the White House, the Thought Police that George Orwell envisioned in 1984 haven't come onto the scene as yet. And without them, we really have no idea how many Americans are closet racists living in America who used to be segregationists, up until their loathsome agenda became extinct, 40 years ago. By being closet racists, they are harmless. No one cares about a person's thoughts. What counts is the way he acts toward others. Even though there probably are millions of such people.

I've been unable to find an exact figure for the percentage of eligible voters that didn't get to the polls, but extrapolating from the figures cited in this article,it must have been very close to 44%. That gives us a total of around 206,087,824 total eligible voters: both the ones who went to the polls, and the 90,678,632 or so who weren't sufficiently motivated by any of the issues, either real or misperceived, to bother to vote. Again -- there is no reason for pro-human rights activists to be concerned about the eligible voters who didn't vote, because such tepid people don't do human rights any harm, nor do they do the forces of bigotry any good. They're like the neutrons in an atom; they add mass/bulk/volume to the population, but when it comes to these issues, they do little or nothing else. So we have a total 90,678,632 lukewarm people who proved that the bigoted agendas of the RRR Cult -- the "Religious" Radical Right -- are of little or no importance to them, so they didn't bother to vote for the candidate most closely aligned with those issues. (Nevertheless, it would be very nice if we could help them to become voting egalitarians!)

Of the U.S. electorate eligible to vote on Nov. 2, 2004, we thus have a total of only 10,203,299 out of 206,087,824 who supported bigoted agendas by voting for Bush with that being the foremost reason for casting that vote. That's only a mere 5%.

An "X" factor could be the 80 million or so NON-eligible voters living in America. Exit polls showed that the younger voters who were old enough and who did vote tended to support Kerry by around 56% vs. 44%. And the voters over 65 tended to support Bush in higher percentages than average -- but there are fewer of those than there are of younger voters.

But there's no real way to come up with figures for how NON-eligible voters might have voted if their viewpoints could be considered, so we're forced either to ignore them, or simply figure that they were fairly evenly split, as was the case for the overall election... which went 51% Bush, 49% Kerry, and less than 1% Nader.

BOTTOM LINE: Of the American electorate eligible to vote, only a mere 5% are active supporters of the RRR Cult's heinous agendas against human rights and personal liberties. FIVE PERCENT. That's a ratio of 20-1 of people who either support human rights actively or for whom opposition to them is of a low enough priority that they didn't even bother to actively support those loathsome agendas against safe & legal abortion-upon-request and equal rights for gays by voting for Bush. VERY heartening!!

There is NO mandate for Bush that can be ascribed to the RRR Cult, and it is ludicrous for him to consider those hateful loons to be his "base." Only a mere 5% of America's eligible voters supported him on that basis.

Nineteen out of every 20 of America's 206 million eligible voters either are opposed to the loathsome agendas of the RRR cult, or are not sufficiently interested in them to even minimally support them.

Out of all that, the only bad news is this: A glass of drinking water that's comprised of 5% arsenic would be deadly poisonous. And that is precisely the danger currently posed to personal freedom in America by the hateful and control-freakish RRR cult as it exists today. The RRR Cult is a dangerous infestation afflicting society. Its lemming-like adherents are every bit as ignorant and bigoted as were the segregationists that preceded them (in the South). As long as it exists, we can't safely ignore it, and its vicious and insidious agendas, any more than we could safely ignore the arsenic in this analogy. The activists of the RRR Cult are dedicated, 24/7, to the absolute destruction of many valuable liberties that hugely benefit many tens of millions of people, and they constantly are concocting new ways to accomplish that. Methods and tactics that need to be countered and nullified.

More than ever before, thinking, sensible, and egalitarian Americans need to work HARD to oppose the loathsome RRR Cult on all fronts, and neutralize and get rid of that poisonous threat to our individual liberties. STARTING with vigorous and vocal opposition to any more nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court who are Anti-Choice.

We are just ONE scary vote away from a reversal of the Court's emancipation of teen girls and women in 1973. If that were to happen, this nation would become a divisive hodgepodge of "slave" states and "free" states -- and countless thousands of economically-deprived girls and women would be unable to travel to free states -- and thus would be FORCED either to gestate UNwanted pregnancies to term against their will (at a cost of countless of their pre-ill-timed-pregnancy future opportunities which would have been immediately restored), or be faced with getting dangerous or exorbitantly-expensive illegal abortions. If this happens, America, having been free in this vitally-important regard for more than three decades, will surely become nightmarish.

We CAN make America a Bigotry-Free Zone. The arsenic CAN be filtered out! Especially when 95% of the population is comprised of a combination of human rights activists and a huge number of apathetic people who pose no opposition to our accomplishing that.

And we must do so. Starting today!!!

And we must get a Democrat back into the White House on Jan. 21, 2009!