The Death Of Jerry Falwell

One of the architects that set the blue print of the Neo cons died this Month. Jerry Falwell is best known for his construction of the term, “The Moral Majority,” which played on Richard Nixon’s Silent Majority. For more than forty years he has worked with his friend and founder of the CBN, Pat Robertson, pushing the idea that only the real Americans who are Jesus fearing Christians will be saved in what has been painted as the final battle between good and evil.  He was also one of those ethnologists that came out of the Barry Goldwater Campaign in 1964 and gradually infiltrated the GOP which claimed secular leanings. And he was one of the main players that convinced American’s to vote for Ronald Reagan.

Even though he is now gone, his reach and influence will be long lasting. During the 2000 campaign of George W Bush, Bush himself often spoke of his faith in God and that used the term “Lord O Mighty.” This was of coarse was no accident. The religious right wing implanted themselves into the GOP’s backside during the Reagan administration and heavily funded Christian candidates that spoke out against a slew of issues on “moral” grounds. This includes abortion, civil rights, workers rights and so on. By the 199s we saw a clear paradigm that arose within the party that came straight out of HL Hunt book of American politics. That is, to connect the image of Christ with capitalism and the military industrial complex. Further more, we see saw during that decade the reverberation of Goldwater message that was widely ignored in the 1964 presidential race. From this political muck, we saw the rise of Newt Gingrich and a decade earlier Pat Buchanan who himself ran for president. Even former Klansman and representatives of Louisiana David Duke even felt empowered to run for president at the time Democrat Bill Clinton ran for a second term.

During George Bush’s earliest days in office he wanted to take social programs out of the hands of the Government and hand them over to “faith based groups.” And as the 2000s drag along we have heard the hateful speech of not only those that followed Jerry Falwell but, also from Falwell himself. For example, shortly after 9/11 he planned the attacks in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington on liberals, feminists and homosexuals. His body Pat Robertson went so far as to call for the assassination of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. The most chilling aspect this icon of the right was his success convincing those reactionaries who once spoke out against what he spoke for.

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