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Trump’s Dangerous and Hateful Rhetoric Trickles Down to Every Level
MAGA have infested every level of our government and are wrecking communities.
They are like a fifth column. Not-so-bright, religiously-confused, Foxified Americans who most likely spent more time in high school worrying about school spirit than they did pay attention to sophomore year civics. They have infected every level of our government — at the most local of levels — and they are turning once peaceful communities into “cultural” war zones.
Meet 43-year-old Rachel Atwood. She was featured in a Washington Post article on Sunday. Running for County Commissioner in Ottawa County, Michigan, Atwood is one of the organizers of a group of MAGidiots called “Ottawa Impact.” Atwood is, to the core, all that is wrong with this political moment in our country, and as I learned when I checked out her Facebook ramblings supported by a lot of very lost, sad, Trump-is-God fellow Foxified white folks.
Atwood, 43, got involved in county politics because she believed that mask requirements were hurting her autistic son at a critical moment in his development. The mandates were over, but Atwood thought that the threats to her children’s well-being from the government and pro-LGBTQ+ liberals remained as real as ever.
“What makes me a little different in this race is that my experience is much more geared toward the current culture war,” she told a local television station (After Two Years of Far-Right Rule).
Masks. LGBTQ. Culture war. Need I say much more for you to get the picture of what kind of person we are dealing with here? I am sure Ms. Atwood is a good mom — I have no reason to assume otherwise. She felt that the masks were causing harm to her child, who has autism. As a parent, I accept her desire to protect her child. Sadly, though, all the niceties come to a screeching halt.
Like a typical faux-religious Christo-fascist who lives by the words of Trump and not Jesus, Atwood and her friends on Facebook are waging war against all that used to unite our nation. In their world, everything is a target. Vladimir Putin is a hero, and everything that Democrats on the national level are doing, not in their county but thousands of miles away, is a…
