An Indiana Moms for Liberty chapter has followed the conservative group’s national playbook, challenging diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in school districts as part of its “parental rights” mission. But the chapter’s aims and use of a quote from Adolf Hitler in its inaugural newsletter unexpectedly spilled over this fall into a mayor’s race previously defined by local development.
The polarizing nature of Moms for Liberty, which has gained name recognition for its push to pack school boards with its endorsements, has spurred some left-leaning candidates to capitalize on opposition to the group and stir voters against their conservative opponents.
In Carmel, Indiana, the Democratic candidate for mayor has repeatedly used the group when attacking his opponent, even though the mayor’s office has no administrative power over school districts, and the local chapter has publicly remained silent on the race outside of its traditional battleground.
imho groups like Moms get funded because the Far Right wants to induce voter fatigue in the rest of us. ‘The Gish Gallop’ is a debate technique where you throw out so many lies that the other side never gets a chance to make their point; they are too busy refuting BS to actually make a point or advance a program.
And, sadly, it works. If we were debating, I could spew 10 falsehoods in a minute. (Well, theoretically. Lying doesn’t come as easily to me as it does to certain folks.) Disproving each one of those would take a few minutes, but by then I’ve spewed two dozen more lies.
At some point, you need to concede some points - despite them being outright lies - just to try to keep up. Do it enough and the liar can make plenty of their lies seem to be true. After all, if Points 3-10 weren’t true, why did you skip from disproving #2 to disproving #11!
It’s a DOS attack on the truth.
I was reading an article on the ‘Trump bucks.’ They look like US currency with Trump’s picture. Apparently people were buying and trying to cash in like real money. The names of the companies involved were ‘USA Patriot’ and similar.
They eat their own.