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Terrible outcomes are the direct result of policies promoting #greed and #racism that the GOP has been using for forty years to get access to hundreds of billions of dollars that they then use to influence media and win elections.
Using racism as a political strategy while promoting and defending the greed of oligarchs always leads to massive #inequality: that, in turn, causes widespread #poverty, #pollution, #illiteracy, and early #death regardless of the nation it’s done in.
https://hartmannreport.com/p/do-republicans-worship-poverty-death
The #white #evangelical movement prior to 1980 was largely #supportive of #abortion #rights.
They were furious, however, when the Supreme Court #banned preacher-led #school #prayer and in the late 1970s Jimmy Carter pulled the #tax #exemptions of #segregated #schools run by white evangelicals.
Jerry #Falwell had started his “Moral Majority” in 1978 and uber-Christian Paul #Weyrich (co-founder of The Heritage Foundation and the guy who famously said, “I don’t want everybody to vote!”) signed up for the Reagan campaign.
As Donne Levy writes for George Washington University’s History News Network:
“Weyrich and Falwell realized that the tax exemption issue based on racial discrimination had limited value, but #opposing #abortion was a moral issue cutting across racial and religious lines. That was their thinking on the eve of the 1980 elections.”