Manufacturing discontent
These strategies of outright reaction bind many rural and impoverished urban communities and play directly into the hands of major industries in the agricultural and extractive energy sectors by disavowing a regulatory culture and measures designed to protect labor and the environment. This is neoliberalism with a vengeance, one that produces the precise conditions of an unregulated market that further impoverishes the working and middle classes. It also plays into the hands of radical Christian evangelicals committed to a world in which (white) men, armed with their god-given right to rule, lord it over the country and the world, regardless of impact on family health, long-term economic development, education quality, or mitigation of climate change.