Bachmann and the beast

Michele Bachmann, the politician from Minnesota, who would do well to talk a lot less. This is the classic stereotypical case of the far-right American politician who really buys into the whole idea that the United States is created by God and is somehow his country. Historically, people who have bought these types of arguments usually become known as dangerous nationalists. In the US though nationalism has its own party: they are called the Republicans. Do you doubt me? Then read some of their websites or listen to their leaders rant and rave about end times and the need to be at war permanently and so on.

My real question though is how does someone like Bachmann get elected? She is well educated(far more so than Palin) and she appears to have some kind of radical right wing base that either has no problem listening to her lies or believes them themselves. What really bothers me is that Minnesota is a normal state, they have a lot of well educated individuals so how does someone like this make it into power. Its a mystery.