Think Progress pointed out, the half-full Rick Perry prayer rally was on the same day - down the street from an event for poor Texans to get free school supplies, uniforms and immunizations. The 100,000 person event was so over capacity it was turning people away.
There seems to be a theme here. The poor have no more famous an advocate than Jesus Christ but the mega-churches seem to be focusing on the mega-donors and the mega-rich.
Case in point: Rick Warren. Last week he tweeted a hard-right (and incorrect) talking point about how half of Americans pay no taxes. This coming from a guy whose the leader of a non-profit (think tax exempt) church in affluent Orange County.
Above is a video from my show, a The Young Turks spin-off, TYT Now talking about this divide. It's a disconnect that gets worse in countries where wealth distribution is stark.
In the same show we talked to C&L reader, author Rick Perlstein about the right-wing, conservative women and the effort to scare up the votes for 2012. "I'm writing the third book in my trilogy about how these guys [GOP] took over the country," says Perlstein.
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