Garden Rose - Israeli extremists' political power have historically extended only as far as their ability to provide the electorate needed to keep certain groups in power. Recent court decisions have finally removed the pure ethnic % equation from policy decisions.
Your minimization of theocon influence upon US politics is disingenuous, to say the least. Their power in our society is founded much more upon citizen ignorance of their true goals than on any vote count. A very influential DC neocon organization known as "The Family" is the best proof extant of that.
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Do know that Israel has a multitude of parties and really not a majority. However, Netanyahu does support the extremists to maintain his position.
Let's not lose sight of where we started out this conversation with fuagf stating that "it suggests a theocratic (Perry,Palin, puffstash) type effort is not real popular much anywhere .. "
The theocracy supported by the CONS is not popular among the majority of Americans. In Israel the theocons are controlling the gov't, theocrats are frowned upon here in the USA. They are held up to ridicule by fuagf by pointing out Palin, Perry, et al.
In Israel the theocrat head bangers are holding the gov't together. In the USA that would frighten people to death that there's no separation of synagogue/state.
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