Is the American nation really this polarized and toxic? Truthfully? Yes. The problem is that as a whole, it seems that Americans are loathe to confront their demons, especially the grand daddy of them all: religious influence. While the First Amendment grants “freedom of religion,” it also grants freedom FROM religion and the unholy marriage of the Christian right to the American body politic needs to have a divorce.
Brody Levesque
Levesque is 100% correct: The elephant in the room is religion — and today the resolute ignorance and malice of the Evangelical Right pose an actual existential threat to the country. They, and their waterboy Donald Trump, must be defeated.
