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In the 1970s, Jerry Falwell figured out how to get fundamentalist Christians to vote for whoever he wanted, just so long as the candidate committed to reducing abortion access. They didn't care if the same candidate was getting payouts from corporations and passing laws to let them bust strikes and pollute the rivers.
And this figured largely into getting Reagan elected in 1980. And Reagan busted up labor and opened up Washington to lobbyists and special interests groups, and the economy, which had a beefy, robust middle class, went k-shaped from then forward.
Falwell didn't actually care about abortion, incidentally. He cared that the law was now forcing his white-only college to integrate black people.
They successfully got rid of Roe, and now you've got half a generation of boomers with no real ideology. They're the dog that caught the car.
So they have it spoonfed to them by Fox News, et al. without even a moment of reflection.
And now for many of the ones who might have once had a chance of listening to reason, they've gone into the ultimate sunk cost territory. That is, they've caused not only fascism to destroy their country, they have ensured that the planet will not be livable for their grandchildren.
So they must lean more more into dispensationalism and Armageddon theology.
I mean, what else can they do, admit to themselves that they've ultimately made miserable (and drastically shortened) the lives of their own grandchildren?
And for what?
Can't do that. Must march forward with what the child rapists want. Because "God uses imperfect instruments." Or something their pastor told them.
Anything else would require admitting to themselves the unforgivable shit that they gleefully participated in while people who cared for them warned and tried to stop them. Their boomer mind won't allow their ego to suffer in that way. After all, that's what matters most. Protecting that boomer ego.