Thomas Jefferson got railroaded out of Texas history books for his positions on the place that religion has in politics. Factual historical evidence that demonstrates the damage inflicted on citizens by religious incursions into government activities has been redacted from our education system. The lessons of today's Taliban, ISIS and even when one leader props themselves up as a jingoistic paragon of a nation's people (such as Putin), seem to fall on deaf ears and rare is the written anecdotal account of someone who successfully escapes the self-inflicted mental prison of religion-based political dogma.
I found this article in Salon to be very gratifying - not simply because it served to confirm what I've suspected for the last 45 years as the basis for this country's spiraling travels down the swirling waters of history's failed nations - but also because of it's author and his recent contemporary influence on the current state of right wing "philosophy".
Frank Schaeffer's Confessions of A One Time Religious Right Icon
By all accounts (both subtle and obvious), folks, we're in for one hell of a ride for the next two years: it might go either way... either reason and true democracy based in the best of human aspirations will prevail, or else the money changers will destroy 230 years of sacrifice, blood, toil and treasure for the enrichment of the few. You be the judge and act according to the conviction of your principles.