It got co-opted and turned into gamer-gate and Jordan Peterson anti-muslim enlightened west stuff (though a lot of people just checked out or moved onto other liberal or left causes too so only the reactionaries and grifters remained giving a false impression) but it started out with very real and deserved objections and anger towards very deranged people with absurd nonsensical and dangerous magical beliefs that were widespread and trying to worm their way into everything. On a national level I feel the whole Evangelical thing kind of hit pause after Bush left office and Obama replaced him, they receded in favor of racism, the tea party, libertarian weirdos on the national stage and didn’t accomplish that much on the state level either for a few years. So liberals and leftists assumed for some reason they were some 90s relic that we didn’t need to worry or think about anymore. But they never went away, they just kind of sat in the back for a bit nursing their grudges and biding their time and now they’ve won the repeal of Roe and many other things.

Now we kind of see the fruits of this stuff with RFK jr and the other dangerous anti-science woo. The covid denial would have happened regardless because of the interests of the bourgeoisie to sacrifice workers to keep profits flowing and the reactionary individualistic self-centered culture in the US. But I feel like a lot of the things we’re now seeing could only grow as quickly as they have in soil made fertile by YECs, made fertile by people crying about ground up babies in vaccines as part of the anti-choice movement, made fertile by the Christian right and their ridiculous conspiracies and satanic panic that started in the 80s, and made fertile by the Christian right’s all out attacks on the trustworthiness of science as a concept in order to attempt to bring down evolution and biology (as well as geology which also debunks YEC pretty strongly).

The thing is, (Evangelical) Christianity is a pillar of the control of the bourgeoisie within the empire. It’s ready-made Gladio. A huge series of interconnected human networks of frothing, reality denying, violent, armed, aggrieved feeling fascist families and individuals. They live among us everywhere. They’re politicians at the state and local level yes. But they’re also teachers, they’re also small business tyrants, they’re also warehouse workers, they’re also tech workers. They have eyes and ears everywhere. They believe in the protestant work ethic which should be called the happy slave’s work ethic because that’s what it is. They gulp down dubious tales spread on zuckerbook and reinforce each others reactionary nature and beliefs constantly, weekly. Hucksters on TV and the internet called TV evangelists reach those who can’t or won’t go in person to a church every Sunday, making nice pocket change and hammering home anti-materialist thinking, selfish thinking, self-righteous, aggrieved thinking.