Bill Moyers sees a lot of things very clearly, and articulates it as so few can or ever have.

On Receiving Harvard Medical School’s Global Environment Citizen Award

As difficult as it is, however, for journalists to fashion a readable narrative for complex issues without depressing our readers and viewers, there is an even harder challenge – to pierce the ideology that governs official policy today. One of the biggest changes in politics in my lifetime is that the delusional is no longer marginal. It has come in from the fringe, to sit in the seat of power in the oval office and in Congress. For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington. Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a world view despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality. When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind. And there is the danger: voters and politicians alike, oblivious to the facts.

My own take on this is that there are only a few who really believe the things that Moyers describes later in this article (like the Rapture stuff). The visible leaders are actually simply using these people, and feigning support for their theologies, to garner votes, by simply mouthing the key phrases that signal they’re “IN”. And the Christian Right buys it , lock, stock and barrel. The neocons are out for power, and they see some easy prey, and they hold some things in common: a zeal for totalitarianism (akin to authoritarianism; which seeks a fanatic zeal for authority that they give willingly for some simple promises of security and prosperity). These neocons care nothing for the people they claim to be standing up for. They care even less for their simplistic theology, except for the ease with which they can appropriate it for their own materialistic ends.