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Who lost my Evangelicals? The incredible shrinking Base...

The 4 million “missing” Evangelical voters that Karl Rove brought back to electoral politics to deliver the 2004 election to George Bush are about to become very hard to find again.

Sure, there are rumblings in the mainstream press about turnout among “values” voters being suppressed in November because of the Evangelical base feeling like they (again) didn’t get what they were promised, and throw the “culture of corruption” log onto the Republican pyre too… Both those answers are too facile. The real reason for Evangelicals leaving is that they have something better; a parallel universe.

In the places where exurban communities of Christian believers have come together, they have created a culture from the ground up, and if you look really carefully, you don’t see a whole bunch of lawn signs, and politics are almost ancillary. Who needs it, it’s just the playground of the evil spirits. So the community comed together around candidated who are guaranteed re-election, they pass budgets that make sense, they keep the streets clean, they keep the politics pristine, and the exurban revolution (as it were) marches on unnoticed, and blissfully below the media radar.

So the 4 million missing Evangelicals are saved, doubly. They are saved by a loving Jesus who died so that they may be cleansed, and they are saved by from participating in the very corrupt politics of their nation and state by their created reality. And the Republican base just got a whole lot smaller…

Question for all you non-believers - What’s so wrong with this???

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