Prayers for violence splitting Republican Party

Just say it: radical christianic terrorism; but now it’s time to add stochastic to that tagline, too.

In the late 19th and early 20th Century the Ku Klux Klan and those on the losing side believed John Wilkes Booth was a patriot who took out the US President that started the American Civil War directed by a Marxist Illuminati. Then after World War I the Klan grew to some 4 million members, got involved in education and its leader, Hiram Evans complained that the control of school textbooks had been taken away by "un-American forces." 

In 1940, the Scottish immigrant who founded the magazine, Forbes started circulating the notion that public school students were being indoctrinated by the forces of Communism and the American Legion agreed then began lobbing that grenade with prejudice. 

Fast forward to the Red Scare, Brown v. Board of Education and to 1958 when the John Birch Society was founded then to President Eisenhower and to the 1960s when the Elementary and Secondary Education Act was passed to relieve some of the effects of poverty and segregation despite Section 604 which forbade federal control of education. 

In 2010 Fresh Air's Terry Gross interviewed Jane Mayer after The New Yorker outed David and Charles Koch as members of JBS. In 2011 Bill Clinton's Labor Secretary, Robert Reich appeared as a panelist at a super secret Bircher-inflenced, Koch-hosted retreat in Palm Springs. In 2012 a normally routine meeting of the Missoula City Council erupted as members of JBS began a protest of payments to the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, or ICLEI. Republican Utah Senator Mitt Romney's mentor was a rabid Bircher. 

Add it all up: Rupert Murdoch, a not-so-closeted racist himself, the Kochs, JBS, the TEA party, the Council for National Policy, the National Rifle Association, Fox News, Tucker Carlson, their attacks on public education and their fear of the "Great Replacement." The Trump Organization was simply the latest obstacle to public education because it hates people of color and social equity, too.

Recall the Birch Society billboards along I-90 across South Dakota that urged voters to get US out of the United Nations, pray to end abortion and how close travelers are to Wall Drug.

But how to dismantle the administrative state?

Enter the Freedom Caucus.

When a Republican colleague threatened to read aloud from a 2-foot stack of books — including a biblical guide to leadership and a tome by anti-tax activist Grover Norquist — to protest inaction on his bills last week, Missouri state Sen. Rick Brattin quickly took up the cause. “It’s hard to do stuff even when everybody’s acting in good faith,” said Senate President Pro Tem Caleb Rowden, a Republican. But the Freedom Caucuses formed because some Republicans saw the rest of their party as not conservative enough. That has led to intraparty conflict in many GOP-dominated state capitols. In Arizona, Freedom Caucus members, led by chair Sen. Jake Hoffman, spearheaded a drive that resulted in the state Board of Education delaying until next year a proposed new handbook governing how parents use state-funded educational savings accounts to send their kids to private schools. [Freedom Caucuses push for conservative state laws, but getting attention is their big success]

Nothing says freedom like driving women out of state for medical care, praying for martial law so you can kill anyone you want, burning textbooks and denying the protections of the First, Fourth and Ninth Amendments to people who enjoy cannabis, right? 

Montana, South Dakota and Idaho are the most profitable states for doctors and hospitals. Grover Norquist's obesity is the flag of entitlement. The compulsion of the extreme white wing to consume is mitochondrial so the corpulent capitalists use their fat stores to enable their behaviors that seek to destroy the security of any weak state. Their lack of exercise drives compulsive resource hoarding and props up their religious absolutism.

Learn more at NPR.

To little surprise Forbes is still rousing rabble, too.

Members of the right-wing Freedom Caucus announced an effort to expel Reps. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) from the House Republican conference https://t.co/UEew8geYZb pic.twitter.com/YfNUzkZp98

— Forbes (@Forbes) July 29, 2021