A huge amount of America is Baptist Christian and believes Israel needs to be at war for Jesus to come back etc. How impactful is this to real life? (hexbear.net)

submitted 10 months ago by BigHaas@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Is American foreign policy always a cool rational neoliberal calculation or do the delusions of the general public have meaningful impact?

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[-] LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

People have utterly formatted their mental hard drives in regards to George W. Bush. So much of Gen-X and below generation was shaped by W. In the same way Regan is the devil and reason everything sucks, W is also the devil and reason everything sucks.

He totally used the cross ✝️ to carry all his war on terror and by extension his foreign policy

[-] AnarchoAnarchist@hexbear.net 17 points 10 months ago

Remember early on when they fucked up and called it a crusade against terror?

[-] LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That's one of the top 100 uniquely evil moments under Bush. Katz need to remember how dreadful and awful the eight years of Bush were. Obama cleaned up the memory, and Trump sort of overshadowed the memory by being particularly vulgar and garish. Trumps novelty and Obama's civility really did a bang-up job covering up Bush's christofashism.