Fortnight for Fabricators

by digby

I don’t know about you, but I’m getting very excited. The Fortnight for Freedom is almost upon us. You’ll recall that it’s supposed to feature mass demonstrations the likes of which we haven’t seen for 40 years. I can’t wait.

But for those of you who may not have been following this all that closely, I highly recommend that you read this fascinating piece by Rick Perlstein from a couple of months ago, if you haven’t already. We often say the right plays a long game, but I doubt that most people know just how long. This “religious freedom” con game goes back over 50 years, to 1961, when the Supreme Court struck down the Maryland Constitution’s requirement of “a declaration of belief in the existence of God” to hold “any office of profit or trust in this state.”

You may have thought this was clear before, but it wasn’t. And the right wingers have spent 50 years trying to roll the law back so that the states could discriminate on the basis of religious belief. And when you read the Perlstein article you’ll see just how mendacious and frankly, immoral, their arguments are.

Propaganda is the real secret to their success and now they have all the money in the world at their disposal to disseminate it. The good news is that we are really awesome at twitter …