CRT Part II: Defunding the Military

[Dill]

(06-26-2021, 08:41 PM)NATI BENGALS Wrote: They sure know how to play to their base. I read Steve Bannon thinks CRT is the golden ticket for repubs to take back power. So like transgenders posing a threat to children everywhere in a Target bathroom near you and Hillary’s emails the right wing main stream media machine will spoon feed this stuff to their viewers until their heads explode or they believe a lying serial sexual assaulter narcissist conman is the savior of the people.

That's what makes this feel so eerie. Their opportunistic news commentators can seize on this or that promising trend and convert it to a patriotic "cause"--all while making it look like (to their base) that they are only reporting the concerns of honest Americans. 

I still remember the Jack Abramov scandal. Lobbying for the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana, namely their interest in protecting their casinos, he enlisted the Christian right (e.g., Ralph Reed) to campaign against the opening of other tribal casinos in Texas and Alabama. They used Evangelical leaders and churches to whip up "grass roots" opposition to gambling licenses/legislation to squelch the competition. Thousands of individual Christians were fooled/mobilized into "protesting" and writing letters to their state representatives condemning the vice of gambling--unwittingly securing the LA tribe's gambling profits.

Now the Right can do that on a national level--stoking anger and organizing it to political ends.  

https://www.foxnews.com/media/virginia-parents-critical-race-theory-loudoun-county-school-board

They're passing laws saying July 1st, after this in the fall, they will fire any teacher that is not culturally in agreement with the school board and their tactics. This is insanity in America. This isn't freedom of speech. It's not freedom of religion. It's racism and it's cloaked in socialism.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/virginia-loudoun-county-school-board-mulls-transgender-critical-race-theory-policies