I forget what podcast it was- I believe Pod Damn- where they had on a Q expert to talk about sex panics and I was pretty surprised this wasn't brought up.
The same people who thought Marilyn Manson was literally the devil now think that random Dems are.
For whatever reason there's just always been some non-zero percentage of the American population who are convinced that the devil is wandering around in broad daylight molesting kids and presumably challenging people to fiddle contests.
My instinct, if I had to pinpoint one cause, would be to blame suburbs, because historically in the US that's the domain of reactionary psychos who are just looking for problems.
I forget what podcast it was- I believe Pod Damn- where they had on a Q expert to talk about sex panics and I was pretty surprised this wasn't brought up.
The same people who thought Marilyn Manson was literally the devil now think that random Dems are.
There was the satanic panic over D&D and Heavy Metal music in the 80s as well, some people even got hauled into court over it.
For whatever reason there's just always been some non-zero percentage of the American population who are convinced that the devil is wandering around in broad daylight molesting kids and presumably challenging people to fiddle contests.
My instinct, if I had to pinpoint one cause, would be to blame suburbs, because historically in the US that's the domain of reactionary psychos who are just looking for problems.