Ever since I spent enough time outside of the world I grew up in (semi-rural, very Evangelical Texas), I've been a bit sad at the loss of what we could have bee

Ever since I spent enough time outside of the world I grew up in (semi-rural, very Evangelical Texas), I've been a bit sad at the loss of what we could have been had Carter managed to stay in office, and increasingly in the last few years as I think about how far we could have gotten with green energy if we'd stayed on the path we were on when he put those solar panels up on the White House. Now I burn with rage when I think about what was taken from my own child while I was still a baby. But of course the oil barons back home couldn't let us and the rest of the world get off the petroleum drug. Of course we couldn't have a center-left stream of Evangelical Christianity in the US - Carter, for those of you who are unaware, is a devout Christian who was teaching Sunday School at a Baptist church until around 2019 or so. The late 70s were also when the Fundamentalists started their fight with the Moderates (like Carter) in the Southern Baptist Convention.