Just because they're crazy doesn't mean they're marginal

George Monbiot's latest is about the power and influence of the fundamentalist apocalyptic Christians, estimated to make up perhaps a third of Republican voters in the US. This small but powerful voting bloc is influencing US foreign policy in the middle east with the specific purpose of starting a world war and ending civilization as we know it. I know it sounds like a joke, but it so very isn't. Ready to immanentize the eschaton, anyone?