I'm feeling so damn frustrated right now. It's pretty clear that the believers in the Rapture have taken over the Republican party ... since they must believe they'll not be affected by what they are doing, by God!
While I know I'm being simplistic and have actually been told that here, I think this can be laid at the feet of authoritarianism, as I understand it via political psychologists. Now I'm not a political psychologist, and don't even play one on TV, but bear with me below.