During the 1930s Depression, conservativetax and guaranteed safety net for the poor and middle classes. Even today, 80 years later, the graduated tax and “welfare”, both already decimated from decades of rollbacks,black budgets, and criminal activities that has utterly compromised its legitimate mission. This feverish anti-Communism went arm-in-arm with the anti-New Deal politics of the wealthy.For the first time in American history, our government is controlled by a cabal whose program is to monopolize wealth, impose theocratic values, intimidate the population by militarizing the police, privatize the military so it can bypass Congress and public scrutiny in conducting overseas adventures; plunder national resources while slashing any government program – medical, educational, nutritional, environmental, worker safety, etc. – that serves the public good; destroy our civil liberties; and ultimately eradicate the notion of the United StatesThe 9/11 attacks and subsequent wars and the billionaire-funded Tea Party’s takeover of the Republican Party brought to the fore such themes as national security, religious fundamentalism,Congress’s current assault on the Voting Rights Act; gerrymandering of election districts; cutting medical, educational, counseling, and nutritional programs; voter intimidation; police violence against people of color)The battle for hearts and minds, when one side is fundamentally authoritarian, and it is getting bigger by the day, makes the voters speak up and pray.