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Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin and even some counties in the Valley all turned blue last election, so things are changing in Texas at least in the big cities.

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IMO, those who have hijacked the Republican party are themselves either brainwashed in religious doctrine, caught up in rigid cultural convention, or opportunists who see a way to manipulate others for personal gain.

Conservatism has been sidelined.

I hope the extremists don't retain power in the Republican party. I was saddened to see organizations like the Discovery Institute and the Creationism Museum come into being at great expense to members of the party, spending all that money to market doctrine to the naive and gullible, and I was very sorry to see President Bush's anti-science policy, that mirrored it.

But we've seen other countries with progressive societies fall to radical forms of Islam, so there's no reason to think a Paulist form of Christianity couldn't spread through fear and intimidation in the same manner.

It's as if civilization itself is teetering on the edge, and most people have learned to turn to the supernatural for comfort and they are terrified to let it go and face Reality.

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