How Gender Balance Will Change Politics Why do religious political extremists control so much of our national public policy agenda?
The answer is simple — progressives have provided no affirmative counterpart to the Christian Coalition and other powerful, reactionary groups. While there is sporadic reaction to the agenda of religious political extremists in America, progressives are simply not setting and implementing a pro-active pubic policy agenda. Unless progressives act quickly and forcefully it may soon be too late to regain control of American! politics. The golden boy of the religious political extremists, Ralph Reed is now running for public office himself, but he left the Christian Coalition to start a firm whose focus “will be on building a farm team of state legislators, school board members and other local officeholders who, [Ralph Reed] believes hold the key to the future of our country.” (Washington Post, April 24, 1997) Their ultimate goal is control – at all levels of government. But they’re starting at the local and state level because it’s easier to get into office without having their extremist
