R pols correctly represent their constituents, the American oligarchy and the White male “Christian” Supremacist base, with lies, fear, and hatred. But we are the majority; millions of their children fall away every year, with our help; and we are ripping the levers of power out of their hands, one by one. The Wrong Wing is desperately afraid of equality, which to them means the rest of us Doing Unto Them as they have done unto so many for so long.
Their thinking it right, and our thinking it wrong, is the precise fact upon which depends the whole controversy. Thinking it right, as they do, they are not to blame for desiring its full recognition, as being right; but, thinking it wrong, as we do, can we yield to them? Can we cast our votes with their view, and against our own? In view of our moral, social, and political responsibilities, can we do this?
Abraham Lincoln, Cooper Union Address
I don’t need to go through the litany of their bogus moral panics to show how each one is connected to that overarching fear, and to every one of the shenanigans they are pretending can counter it.
I will mention that reading of banned books is up sharply. Similarly sales of Dr. Seuss books rose from 5.1 million annually to well over 6 million in the last year. Similarly Tedious Cruz’s rant against Anti-Racist Baby during the KJB hearings has made it a best seller.
Our people are also out recruiting many, many more candidates to counter the Wrong-Wingers running for school and election boards. Every seat, and therefore every vote, counts. Wrong-Wingers periodically get the idea that taking over school boards is a path to Christian Dominion in the US. It has been tried over creationism, abortion and contraception, and now the twin bogeymen of CRT and Teh Gay Agenda. In each case Democrats belatedly turfed the rascals out. Let’s see whether we can get out ahead of them this time.
The other big humbugs in the world, as witnessed by how much death they are fine with among their people, include
- Vladimir Putin (Russia)
- Aleksandr Lukashenko (Belarus)
- Bashar Al-Assad (Syria)
- Kim Jong-Un (North Korea)
- Jair Bolsonaro (Brazil)
- The military junta (Sudan)
- The military junta (Burma)
- Shavkat Mirziyoyev (Uzbekistan)
- MBS (Saudi Arabia)
- Saparmurat Niyazov (Turkmenistan)
- Seyed Ali Khamenei (Iran)
- Teodoro Obiang Nguema (Equatorial Guinea)
- King Mswati III (Swaziland/Eswatini)
- Imran Khan (Pakistan)
India, Turkey, Hungary, Poland, and the like don’t rise to that level of humbuggery or death. China has one-party rule, not outright autocracy.
There used to be something over a hundred tin-pot dictators of the “Left” and the “Right” around the world, often making war on their own people with extensive use of torture.. The list above therefore constitutes remarkable progress, and there is more to come.