“Fascists Go Home!”: Philadelphians Reject Far Right “Moms for Liberty” | Over 50 local and national organizations joined to counter the harmful messaging from the far right group’s conference.
We have one of those Moms for "Liberty" groups in my area. After they got LGBTQ books banned from schools and libraries, their new thing is going after literature relating to disability awareness. It's sad to see, and anyone with a disability or a loved one with a disability should seriously be aware and worried about this trend.
We have one of those Moms for “Liberty” groups in my area. After they got LGBTQ books banned from schools and libraries, their new thing is going after literature relating to disability awareness.
Right-wing politics are all about performative outrage and fearmongering. They need everybody focused on a "boogeyman", and once they conquer that boogeyman, they need to find a new boogeyman to get everyone riled up about and keep the rubes focused on anything but their policy ideas.
Mitch McConnell champions this. He has mentioned on record several times to make sure the party doesn't focus on their own policies because of how unpopular they are, and instead to just spend 100% of the time telling everybody how whatever the Democrats are doing is bad in order to keep the attention focused elsewhere.
They were successful at killing Roe. Now the new boogeyman is the LGBT community. And apparently in your area it's disabled people because hey, kicking people while they're down is fun. and once they feel like they won whatever battle they're waging against the disabled, it'll be another disadvantaged group.
Good! They always think if they just put "mom" or "liberty" in their title people can't question their beliefs. I've talked to right wingers who can't figure out others don't think like they do. There is very little perspective over there.
Philly "average joes" (not even activists) directly confronted a tacticool-kitted out white supremacist march and sent them running with their tails between their legs. My people will fight peaceful robots or Nazis any night you want, so long as the beer keeps flowing.