Its not clear that a few honest words from friends would have stopped Michael Jackson or any mentally ill person from behaving the way they do.
The religious right didn't dissappear after the 90s - they got their man elected president in 2000. Now we have John Ashcroft covering the cleavage on the Justice Dept. statues, and crusading to clean up the air waves ... our own version of the committees for the prevention of vice and promotion of virtue that have worked so well in Saudi Arabia and Taleban Afghanistan.
Not sure about this bugaboo of the radical gay rights movements that you invoked. There are three lesbians (that I know of) at my workplace, and their 'extreme' positions include a desire to have equal legal rights and a measure of acceptance. Maybe there are radical extremists somewhere out there, but I think the black/white right wingers would be opposed to even the average or moderate gay persons agenda.
I didn't follow the Women's march on Washington, but am a little puzzled that you want to give those 750,000 people 'a spanking' for excercising their rights to assemble and speak. If you disagree with something, then disagree. But you didn't even explain what you disagree with - you just called it vulgar and disgusting.
If you think that the Democrats have made unprecedented use of fillibuster to block court nominees, then you are ignorant. Take a course in legislative history!! Or change the Constitution. The rules are set up to keep some balance - winning 49.xx percent of the votes in November doesn't give a party to do what ever they like - some things still have to go through Congress and require the assent of the minority.
Right wing, fundamentalists tend to see things in absolute, literal, black and white terms. Unless that becomes inconvienent for achieving other goals. Most disgusting is the doctrine of 'ethical evilism' that pervades the right wing in the US. Ethical evilism is the idea that evil is acceptable or desirable, as long as that evil is in the service of good. This is the doctrine rejected by Gandhi and ML King, who argued that means cannot be separated from the ends.
The pervasiveness of ethical evilism is demonstrated by the popularity of G. Gordon Liddy and Oliver North. Liddy is a convicted felon who burglarized the offices of the Democratic Party for the administration of Richard Nixon. Breaking the law is wrong, but Nixon's crew felt that it was ok to break a few laws to promote their ideology, which they saw as a greater good. Liddy would have become the most popular voice on talk radio, but he uses too many big words and long sentences.
Oliver North is part of the crew that subverted the constitution to sell weapons to terrorists in Iran to raise money to help terrorists in Nicaragua. (The US government printed and distributed a manual that showed insurgents in Nicaragua how to sabotage economic targets and conduct assassinations - but reasoned that it wasn't terrorism because it was in the service of good). North's conviction was overturned because it was partly based on testimony he gave to a congressional investigation under immunity. But there is no doubt he was guilty of subverting the constituition or promoting terrorism. Today, North is a correspondent for Fox television news.
Nobody in the right wing cared about Saddam's gassing of the Kurds when he did it. Rumsfeld went to Iraq and shook his hand, and provided him with military aid knowing what he did. After all, Saddam was an ally against Iran. (And pragmatic ethical evilists know that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend.") It was only when he invaded Kuwait that his evil became a problem.
Nobody on the right cared about death squads in El Salvador or Guatemala or Chile when hundreds of thousands there 'dissappeared.' After all, they were on our side in the fight against communism, so they must be good guys. It wasn't until American nuns visiting there were raped and murdered that the right saw there might be a problem.
"Blowback" is a term invented by ethical evilists to describe the fact that they are sometimes unable to control the evil they unleashed. I would argue that blowback is not a rare occurence; it is the norm.
The problem with ethical evilism is that what may start out as a little evil can easily grow.