(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . The Moms Are Coming! The Moms Are Coming! [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-05-13 On the eve of Maryland’s primaries, poring over my Democratic (at least, mostly, see below) “Practice Ballot,” laptop nearby, I find a remarkably wide degree of name recognition. Needless to say, the top boasts President Biden. Next come two high profile Congressional races (one for the 6th MD US House district, the other for the US Senate seat being left vacant by the retiring Ben Cardin). Toward the bottom, 12 folks of whom I’d never heard vie for 6 DNC delegate slots. At the end, some 17 hats crowd the ring for 3 Board of Education slots. Only this last race gets billed as a “Non-Partisan Contest” in which “Candidates… may or may not be affiliated with any political party.” And lo, a paradox emerges. (Think of it. Though billed as “Non-Partisan,” ANY PARTY can play. This on a replica of the “Democratic” primary ballot.) Sigh. Let’s face it. “ANY” includes the party/cult that spawned the now-coyly/now stridently pro-fascist “Moms for Liberty.” Sure enough, the chief of the MFL’s Frederick, MD chapter stains my ostensibly blue ballot, seeking a platform to impose her Trumpy will on the BOE in my back yard. Rest assured I’ll not vote for her. In fact, allow me to inveigh against her. (Better late than never, can we make bold to conjure with just how freedom-fragging, how un-American, how brazenly [see below] despotic/Orwellian/what have you these malign, mendacious mommies truly are?) Even the nonpartisan, fact-steeped American Historical Association warns that MFL “attempts to silence and harass teachers” by seeking to impose “job loss and other penalties” for presenting the truth. As if to build on that, even the generally right-leaning moderates at The Hill call MFL a network of “extremists.” Even that understates. Nearly a year ago, MFL’s Hamilton County, Indiana chapter topped its monthly newsletter with a chilling quote from the putsch-pushing firebrand who, a century ago, was unwisely released from Landsberg Prison. Yep. That one. According to those heartland moms (quoting, let it be stressed ADOLF HITLER), “He alone, who OWNS the youth, GAINS the future” (emphases in original). Hmm. Like it or not, report it or not, when one person “OWNS” another, we’re talking slavery. (For which, come to think of it, GOP cynosure/MFL fan Ron “Life Skills” DeSantis has perfervidly stumped. Small world.) Not to mention: for aspiring despots, to “GAIN… the future” connotes (if not denotes) a total, forceful, despotic power grab (a la J6). Granted, the prospects I’m raising here are not very sunny. And, as librarian turned bestselling author Vicki Myron observes, bad news tends to hit one pretty much on par with bad food. So, forgive me. But so help me. Truth to tell, the plot thickens (and sickens). When some MFLers apologized for their Hamilton County peers’ fresh-from-the-Fuhrer quote, scads of news outlets fell all over themselves to credit the freedom-fragging mamas with sincere, heartfelt remorse. (Aww. How warm! How fuzzy! How nice!!!) Oops. Reporting from MFL’s 2023 Philadelphia “Summit,” Mother Jones’s Kiera Butler heard Founding Mom Tiffany Justice snarl (to thunderous cheers), “One of our moms, in a newsletter, quotes Hitler. I stand with that mom!” (Oh, well. At least the crowd didn’t chant “SIEG HEIL!”) Not to forget Trump. Not only did he (and DeSantis) reportedly address said “summit;” on live, national TV (on 9/29/20), he indicated he stands with the militant, seditious Proud Boys (with whom MFL reportedly has associated, if not aligned). Not to mention, the former dude has lately echoed Hitler’s vitriol re “vengeance” on “vermin.” Moving forward, we need to keep history in mind. Well before J6, in blood-red caps, the writing was on the wall. It’s still there. That cannot bode well. After narrowly escaping 1930s Berlin, novelist Christopher Isherwood wrote that tyrannical torture, mayhem, oppression, and murder “can happen to anyone.” All the more given MFL’s fierce, liberty-stifling fealty to “Hannibal the Cannibal” Trump, appeasement of Big Blonder’s cult must cease. To deny that stark, plain fact is to err on the side of incaution. Indeed, it is to court danger- and to fly in the face of Isherwood’s warning that “this can happen… to you.” [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/5/13/2240454/-The-Moms-Are-Coming-The-Moms-Are-Coming?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_community&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/