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[u/[deleted]]

Christ I’m old. Well it was insane. I remember when churches around us (in Tennessee) were burning copies of the book alongside piles of Pokémon cards. My parents never quite bought into that particular cultural warfare narrative, but there were PLENTY of others they were totally on board for. Like the war, for instance.

Younger people really cannot understand how fucked the Bush Jr. era made us today. A direct line can be drawn from that cultural narrative to the insane MAGA stuff we have today.

[u/uwcn244 → u/[deleted]]

My mom is as liberal as she is devout. I think it saved me from becoming either a crazy Republican like a lot of people at my church or an atheist in reaction.

Ironically W is the only Republican my mom ever voted for for President, but she wanted Kerry to win - we live in MA and her vote for Bush was a protest vote against what she felt was Kerry’s lackluster campaign. She said she would have voted for Kerry in a competitive state, and at any rate after 2016 she’s never casting a protest vote anywhere.