uck.
Fascists use this "plandemic" it is a springboard into collective action that is threatening to drag the US into the government for and by a white fascist minority..
In Enid, Okla., pandemic politics prompted a fundamental question: What does it mean to be an American? Whose version of the country will prevail?
www.nytimes.com
The article describes how right wing radicals used the simplest protective tech, a cloth mask covering the mouth, as a rallying point. From a victory at a town meeting to reject a mask mandate in their town, they kept pressing. The crowd at city hall meetings were hostile to anybody testifying for a mask mandate. Trash dumped onto the lawn of people who supported it and threats made to those who dared to defy the red shirted evangelists at those meetings. Eventually, they won at the polls and rolled back sensible steps to prevent the spread of the virus. As they said, winning felt good.
It doesn't stop there for fascists. It never does:
Enid’s City Council may no longer be a stage for national politics, but Mr. Burleson (mega church-evangelist pastor) has continued to bring national politics to Enid. One Sunday this past August, he sat down in his church with Charlie Kirk, the right-wing speaker, who during the pandemic has been visiting churches across the country calling on people to get involved in politics.
Preaching grievance politics:
“They want to crush you,” Mr. Kirk said at an evening talk at Emmanuel Enid, referring to an unspecified “metropolitan elite,” and to government leaders, including Republicans. “They call you the smelly Walmart people. They do. You should hear the way your leaders talk about you. They have contempt for you. They want to try to turn Oklahoma into nothing more than a producing colony for the rest of the country.”
Nazi-propaganda if ever I heard it.
People Are Waking Up’
In the end, both sides could agree on one thing: The fight was not really over masks.
This is explicit at the end of the article. The bible thumping home schooling mom who led the red shirted "freedom fighters" was actually planning to run for the school board until people complained that her son didn't go to school and she was anti mask and vaccine. She didn't run. Too bad.
Her son? He's indoctrinated:
She is proud of her son, who she said cares deeply about the country. He flew to Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6 to go to Mr. Trump’s speech with her father. She said they did not participate in what came after. He graduated from high school last year but did not want to go to college and “pay $100,000 to fight indoctrination.” She said he now works at Chick-fil-A and wants to teach his peers about patriotism.
“He wants to right all the wrongs in the world,” she said. “He said, ‘Mom, I don’t have time to go to college. We have a country to save.’”