http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-r ... oters-iowawas sitting at a different coffee shop the other day, when one young woman I admire very much stopped to talk about the candidates. I don’t know how many brothers and sisters she has exactly, but I know of at least eight. All are home schooled, well-educated, and smart as smart can be. They are all thoughtful, polite, and I have no doubt all will succeed at life. That is what they have been raised to be. She’s a twenty-something in college.
“Who do you like for president?” I asked.
“Cruz,” she replied, sitting down at the table with me, putting her coffee down. “He’s the only true conservative, and a godly man. A true leader.”
“But he hasn’t done anything,” I said.
“Of course he has,” she replied. “Lots of proposed reforms the RINOs and Democrats wouldn’t accept, and he nearly brought the government down.”
“And almost bringing the government down is good?”
She looked puzzled. “Of course it is. And he’s the only one without a big ego.”
“Cruz? No ego?”
“No, it’s not about him,” she said. “He’s doing the Lord’s work.”
I remembered hearing much the same from another young Republican when when I shared that Cruz and others like him want to turn America into a Christian theocracy.
“What’s wrong with that?” he had replied. “America was founded as a Christian nation, after all.”
Ted Cruz’s exact words to the audience in Oskaloosa, and repeated to a nation of young Christian conservatives across the nation, during story time. It begins in preschool. In the womb maybe. And if they can’t vote yet, there is always next election, and the following. An army of Christian soldiers. And they are young, and their number is growing.
I looked back at the young Cruz supporter. She sipped her coffee while I sipped mine, at the same table, in different worlds.
He is spreading the same hate filled message but without the loud mouth bombastic crazy speech. This is why we need to worry.
