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Pizzagate<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

It seemed like a bad joke gone wrong.  Back in 2016, when the nation was already shocked by the ascendancy of Donald Trump, Edgar Welch walked into Ping Pong Pizza in Washington, DC with an AR-15.  He fired the gun at a door at the back of the restaurant, blasting open the lock of a closet.  Welch was searching for the stairs to the basement, where he was certain children were being held for trafficking.  There is no basement to the Ping Pong Pizza building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPizzagate\u201d was a joke to most of the nation, a man so steeped in the craziness of the back alleys of the internet, that he truly believed that Hillary Clinton, the nominee for President, led a Democratic cabal of pedophile child traffickers, some hidden in the basement of Ping Pong Pizza.\u00a0\u00a0Part of the \u201cproof\u201d of the conspiracy was \u201ccoded\u201d into the Russian hacked emails of Clinton campaign manager John Podesta.\u00a0\u00a0In its most extreme version, the Democrats actually drank the blood of those children to maintain some form of immortality, as well as more \u201cregular\u201d pedophilia.\u00a0\u00a0It was \u201cnuts\u201d, just beyond crazy.\u00a0\u00a0But there was Welch, with an actual AR-15, firing off shots and looking for the basement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

QAnon<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A lot of this craziness amalgamated into the QAnon conspiracy theories.\u00a0\u00a0Most normal American citizens shook their head at the lunacy:\u00a0\u00a0John Kennedy Jr. returning from a faked death to lead the nation, the American \u201csecret police\u201d ready to swoop in and return Donald Trump to his rightful place as President.\u00a0\u00a0But Trump, and some of the politicians who aspire to be \u201cTrump 2.0\u201d, continue to \u201cdabble\u201d in QAnon.\u00a0\u00a0You can see it at a Trump rally, the \u201cQ\u201d apparel in the audience, the QAnon \u201ctheme song\u201dplayed in the background, the \u201cQ\u201d salute by many in the crowd.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s a line from QAnon to the current Republican talking points.  And it runs straight through Trump, and right to the shootings at the Q Night Club in Colorado Springs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indoctrination Centers <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I taught in the public schools for thirty-five (and a half) years.\u00a0\u00a0I am a \u201ctrue believer\u201d that teachers can\u2019t \u201cindoctrinate\u201d kids.\u00a0\u00a0If we could, then schools wouldn\u2019t need my last job, the \u201cdiscipline guy\u201d at a high school, the Dean of Students.\u00a0\u00a0If we really had that kind of influence, kids would do their homework, and pay attention in class, and not sell drugs in the bathroom or make love on the floor of the auditorium.\u00a0\u00a0But they do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But some Republican candidates have found a way to energize voters by creating a view of public schools as \u201cDemocrat indoctrination centers\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0Good schools look at their students, some of whom are gay, or transgendered, or even \u201cfurries\u201d (students who dress like animals).\u00a0\u00a0They try to find a way to reach those students, to make them part of their school community.\u00a0\u00a0But somehow that makes schools \u201cDemocrat\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0And since, according to QAnon, Democrats are pedophiles, it all fits a certain crazy sense.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThey are trying to indoctrinate our kids\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Energizing the Crazies<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Think that\u2019s not real?  Millions of dollars are going into school board candidates throughout the country, from groups like the 1776 project<\/a>.  Part of their goal is to control curriculum, to end the mythical \u201cCritical Race Theory\u201d they think is taught in schools.  But another part is to attack schools that try to normalize gay and transgendered children.  That \u201cnormalization\u201d fits right into the QAnon theories, though those groups would deny any connection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still not convinced?  Mike Pompeo, former Secretary of State and a potential Republican candidate for President in 2024 just announced: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWho\u2019s the most dangerous person in the world?  Is it Chairman Kim, is it Xi Jinping?  The most dangerous person in the world is Randi Weingarten (President of the American Federation of Teachers)<\/em>.  It\u2019s not a close call. Who\u2019s the most likely to take this republic down?  It would be the teacher\u2019s unions, and the filth that they\u2019re teaching our kids\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schools are teaching \u201cacceptance\u201d of those that are different.  But accepting the LGBTQ community flies in the face of  significant portion of the Republican base, who are co-opted by QAnon conspiracy theories.  So if schools accept the LGBTQ, then, like Weingarten, they must be indoctrinating children into being Democrats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disaster<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Pompeo knows better.  But he\u2019s willing to \u201cdabble\u201d, just as Trump is, in order to reach that part of the Republican base who will vote in the Republican primary.  And that \u201cdabbling\u201d means advocating, \u201cin camera\u201d, for the craziness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the LGBTQ community is such a threat to American culture, how hard is it for those on the fringes of our society, already mentally unstable and with ready and easy access to weapons and ammunition, to take \u201ccontrol\u201d of the situation.\u00a0\u00a0Whether it was Welch storming the Ping Pong Pizza store in 2016, or Anderson Lee Aldrich at the Q Night Club last week, they are \u201cgetting the message\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s not just from the dark corners of the internet anymore.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s from some of the highest office holders in the nation.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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