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Noam Chomsky: "Sejak Jimmy Carter, fundamentalis agama memainkan peran...

"Sejak Jimmy Carter, fundamentalis agama memainkan peran utama dalam pemilihan. Dia adalah presiden pertama yang menunjukkan dirinya sebagai orang Kristen yang dilahirkan kembali. Itu memicu sedikit cahaya di benak manajer kampanye politik: Berpura-puralah menjadi fanatik agama dan Anda dapat mengambil sepertiga suara saat itu juga. Tidak ada yang bertanya apakah Lyndon Johnson pergi ke gereja setiap hari. Bill Clinton mungkin sama religiusnya dengan saya, artinya nol, tetapi para manajernya memastikan bahwa setiap hari Minggu pagi dia di gereja Baptis menyanyikan lagu-lagu pujian."

--- Noam Chomsky

Versi Bahasa Inggris

Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting himself as a born again Christian. That sparked a little light in the minds of political campaign managers: Pretend to be a religious fanatic and you can pick up a third of the vote right away. Nobody asked whether Lyndon Johnson went to church every day. Bill Clinton is probably about as religious as I am, meaning zero, but his managers made a point of making sure that every Sunday morning he was in the Baptist church singing hymns.