Over at Salon Magazine, columnist Jarret Ruminski takes on Senator Cruz, while fretting as do I that Americans could repeat a horrible mistake in 2016.
Labeling Cruz the "High Priest of the American Civil Religion" he makes this troubling comparison...
...voters (and the Supreme Court) elected a cocksure, right-wing adopted Texan, long on discredited ideology but short on wits, who plunged the United States into a sinkhole of economic and foreign policy chaos from which it has yet to fully emerge. The American political attention span is notoriously short.He then examines the Yankee Doodle Dandy construct, what sociologist Robert Bellah in 1967 termed "Civil Religion in America", that infests the American psyche (and, with differing hagiographies and myths, those of other nations too I suppose) and allows idiots such as Carl Rove and George W., but hopefully never Cruz, to pull at the heartstrings of a large percentage of Americans whose critical thinking, such as it is, flies from their heads when the band strikes up the Star Spangled Banner.