Something I've noticed is that the more obnoxious branch of American leftists (think DemocraticUnderground, the left-wing equivalent of FreeRepublic) and many Europeans are convinced conservative Christians (particularly the low-church evangelicals) in the US are dangerous both at home and abroad.
Lurking at FreeRepublic has shown me there are a few such people, but they're outnumbered greatly there by the more secular right-wing types.
So here's a thought:
How can we get a US that is theocratic or close to it domestically and expansionist abroad, in the name of religion? Make it so the straw man of these people and the US under the Bush administration is actually TRUE.
I picked post-1900 because people holding these beliefs tended to be poor and marginal until the 1950s or so and then they started getting richer. That's when they started getting more politically influential.
Lurking at FreeRepublic has shown me there are a few such people, but they're outnumbered greatly there by the more secular right-wing types.
So here's a thought:
How can we get a US that is theocratic or close to it domestically and expansionist abroad, in the name of religion? Make it so the straw man of these people and the US under the Bush administration is actually TRUE.
I picked post-1900 because people holding these beliefs tended to be poor and marginal until the 1950s or so and then they started getting richer. That's when they started getting more politically influential.