[Nowhere Man]

So conservative FReepers are the Taliban?

No, but things could snowball into that if it gets out of control and the wrong people get in. It is like out of the old Robert A. Heinlein novel (I'm a huge science fiction as well as "noir" fan), "Revolt in 2100" (1953) where as a reaction to what the left is doing, the backlash is so great that after the revolt, you end up with that Heinlein called "The American Ayatolla." It takes place before "Stranger in a Strange Land" (1961) where America was more of a libertarian place.

[Eaker]

The Taliban are anything but conservatives.

To equate the two in any way is inexcusable.

Conservatives want to live according to the American Constitution NOT the koran. The two are not too closely related and our Forefathers meant for them not to be.

America has never been as you described and never will be. The “The American Ayatolla” is a figment of Heinlein’s fertile imagination.

[TigersEye]

No, but things could snowball into that if it gets out of control and the wrong people get in.

Right here, right now, in reality we have a communist takeover of our government and other major institutions of our society and you're worried about what might happen in some imagined future? For which not one single substantive instance exists on which to base a theory of this future possibility? I can hardly even think of any rhetoric from the remotest fringes of Christianity that could be infinitely stretched to begin to even sketch that notion. Are you worried about Martians invading too?