Top rivals for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination on Friday addressed the national conference of Moms for Liberty, appealing to the conservative parents-rights advocacy group with vows to bolster education and keep discussion of gender identity out of the classroom.
  • SolidGrue@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    If you are a student of US history, take note: the Temperance movement of the early 20th century that led to Prohibition started under similar banners. These people are deadly serious.

    Don’t sleep on seemingly-harmless populist movements. They resonate in the ballot box, and then it’s all “oh shit where did my rights go??”

    They are coming for your porn,
    They are coming for your booze,
    They are coming for your weed,
    They are coming for your LGBTQ+ friends & family,
    They are coming for your contraceptives,
    They are coming for your heart, mind and soul,
    They are implacable and they will not stop.

    Vote like your very life depends on it. It matters.

  • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    We need to take them seriously, but this headline is overstating their importance. Candidates aligned with these fuckers largely lost elections to the school board, while candidates telling these conservatives to fuck off general won those elections.

    Of the course the answer here is to run up the score as much as possible. Don’t give them an inch.