Chomsky on Religion in the USA elections...
Chomsky: I think it changed with Carter. Not consciously or purposely, but Carter was the first president who made a big point of his being a born-again Christian. He kind of advertised it and I think party managers recognized this is a way to obtain votes of a significant section of the population. In the 1980 election campaign, all three candidates--Carter, Reagan, and Anderson--had to present themselves as religious extremists. Now Reagan, I don't know what he believed, if anything--I think he believed that reality was what he saw in the movies. Anderson was probably about as religious as I am, I suspect, but he presented himself as what I call a religious extremist. And that's a way of automatically getting votes of a substantial part of the population.
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