Sarah Palin, 21st Century Theocrat | AlterNet

Many thanks for the forward from my good friend in Hollywood for this post. This is an extremely good article and the first thing that came to mind while reading it was, "My God! Sarah took the worst of Kansas and dumped it all over Alaska!" [excerpt] Pat O'Hara, a journalist who served on the Wasilla school board for twelve years, remembers how the religious right made her feel like a stranger in her own community. The Mat-Su Valley, which includes the neighboring towns of Wasilla and Palmer, had once been a libertarian sort of place, full of blue-collar individualists who didn't fit in elsewhere. "I had the dog team in the woods, the cabin in the woods. My friends were teachers, farmers, construction workers," she said as she stood with about 1,500 demonstrators at a September 13 anti-Sarah Palin rally in Anchorage. "It was kind of a working, very much Democratic community. And then it changed." Read more here.