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No secular organization is capable of mounting anything like an organized, church-funded campaign to recruit new voters. Churches reach deep into the daily lives of their most devout members in a way that no secular group can (or, for that matter, would want to do). Secular humanism and atheism are not religions, and no one goes to the First Church of Atheism to find out what Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens has to say about how to "vote our values." The whole idea of registering voters, while engaging in some ritual reflection for forty days before an election, would be laughable to most secularists.

The libs beat their chests about the evil rich and corporations, yet they praise the Republicans who represent these interests as "responsible" and "moderate." Meanwhile Biblical Fundamentalists (who are sociologically not well off and certainly not dogmatic Randians), who could serve as a constituency for anti-corporate rhetoric, are considered worse than the rich. Does this make any sense at all?

It's not like the Left is opposed to using fundamentalist religion to achieve power (Qaddafi's Libya is just one example). Yet here in America poor white Bible-thumpers (never poor Black ones) are the supreme demons, against whose evil influence the corporate fatcats are appealed to by the Left as allies.

Somewhere in the Pacific Northwest is (or was at one time) a socialist commune of KJV-Fundamentalists who reject capitalism because they consider it Darwinian and Malthusian. There is apparently no place on the American political spectrum for such people (or hasn't been since William Jennings Bryan).