And how is this any different to the 40 years of cultural and class warfare that the Right has waged in this country?

You have Nixon’s Southern Strategy, followed by Reagan’s “welfare queens.” The rise of Limbaugh and the reactionary Right. And this is just the tip of the iceberg.

All of them for decades have used an endless line of invisible freaks & geeks to scare the social Conservatives into thinking that the commies, socialists, illegal immigrants, homosexual and feminists are going to destroy their way of life. And the loss in November has done NOTHING to silence this rhetoric of hate and intolerance.

No, I’m afraid you are overlooking the most obvious cause for this so-called revolution, and that is that the moderate Republicans of the party who have voted with the Conservative cause faithfully for the last 20-30 years finally realized they were left without a party. It was taken over by the Christian Conservative moralists and the Radical Neo-Conservative demagogues who were gunning for a permanent majority, with which they were (hoping and…) planning to dismantle FDR’s New Deal and LBJ’s social programs.

Many of these moderates crossed party lines and voted for Obama in November. It was they who saw through the phoniness of the McCain/Palin camp’s promise of change and reform.

The American people finally had enough of the Great Lie that is Conservatism in this nation. From Nixon, Reagan, Bush Sr. & Jr., the American people understood that the GOP platform of small government and reduced spending was a hoax and a bankrupt ideology. A neat talking point to distract them from the issues and an excuse to shift spending from one sector to another.

The Conservative movement, like a lumbering dinosaur roaming a frigid landscape, failed to adapt to the changing political climate. Instead, many of you have clung to this notion that its “THEM not US” that is the problem and in doing so, the Conservative Movement has swung even further to the right.

So, no — the ‘fringe’ of 1968 did not become the establishment as you posit. It’s just that the Conservatism – with its rigid dogma – has alienated itself from public discourse – the product of decades of divisiveness – and has itself become the new “fringe.”