When he was elected President in 1980 Ronald Reagan set about demolishing the ethos of the left-leaning Hippie Generation.
Hellbent on revenge he demonized them and the political left symbolized by the Soviet Union.
All left-wing thinking was labelled Communist totalitarianism and the work of the devil.
To do this he relied upon the hatred and hypocrisy of Generation X who blamed and shamed the Hippies.
He also enlisted the support of the Religious Right notably the Polish anti-Communist Pope John Paul II.
He was quoted as saying that Christianity contained "unconventional weapons".
He weaponized religion and whitewashed the guilty.
But Reagan was no Messiah.
Reagan was a politician.
He used religion and rebellion to create a political victory.
A victory symbolized by a Last Judgement invoked by the Millennium.
This was intended to establish the reign of Conservative Capitalism forever.
Whether Ronald Reagan believed what he was doing was the Will of God or whether he cynically used religion for his political purpose is not clear.
But one thing is certain:
He was wrong.
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