Ok, so the culture war is still prevailing for the Religious Right even though Democrats made significant gains at the national level. They will be taking their strategy to the state level where they feel they have some leverage. The Religious Right is so concerned about the Left imposing their views upon society at large yet they are such hypocrites as well because they want and DO impose their views upon society. No one is innocent and we all have our views. Let's just be honest about it!
"My friends, this election is about much more than who gets what," Pat Buchanan declared in his famously inflammatory speech at the 1992 GOP national convention. "It is about who we are. It is about what we believe. It is about what we stand for as Americans. There is a religious war going on in our country for the soul of America. It is a cultural war, as critical to the kind of nation we will one day be as was the Cold War itself."
According to this article at AlterNet, The Religious Right has their reasons for staying in power:
"For a year or more in the run-up to the elections, we heard claims that the Religious Right is dead, dying or irrelevant and that the so-called Culture Wars are over, or about to be. Such declarations have turned out to be spectacularly wrong.
There are many reasons for the staying power of the Religious Right. Among them is an extraordinary infrastructure developed over decades, especially at the state level. This infrastructure is an important part of the reason the movement will be able to sustain, restore and replenish itself as the founding generation of Religious Right leaders passes from public life and why it will be able to regroup in the wake of national Republican electoral losses in 2008. But this is not the only reason.
The Religious Right is on a mission, or rather a cluster of interrelated missions. They are religious in nature and transcend not only electoral outcomes but the lives of individuals and institutions. This is much of the source of both the movement's resilience and its development of a vast capacity to move people and shape events to raise up leaders, and to field effective organizations able to wage electoral campaigns at all levels and effectively use the process of state ballot initiatives to drive wedge issues and, ultimately, their legislative and constitutional agenda.
That is why the Religious Right will be a major factor in American politics for at least as long as the life of anyone reading these words."
So, be prepared for the sustainability of the Religious Right, but don't get bogged down by it. Rather, be encouraged at our victories thus far, and be motivated to work hard for change. Sometimes when we feel demoralized and pushed down, something deep within us individually and collectively takes hold and shows us the way.
