Fabricated Panic

 

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Fabricated Panic

That Critical Race Theory is not taught in the public school system has been known by the Left since the first day that the Right turned it into an engineered panic response. The theory sounds to the cognitively biased as a supplement to the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. But then, anything that speaks to the problem of racism elicits panic from racists in the party of the Proud Boys.

What has happened to my once-proud Republican Party? 

I had thought that, after the Joe McCarthy debacle and the civil rights movement, the party and the political right would its ranks of witch-hunters, jingoists, white supremacists, and conspiracy theorists--and they did, for a while. It only took a budding Mussolini to bring out the worst of them again.

I ask my Republican friends if the Republicans will ever return to common-sense politics that made them the favorite of the American people before the party went off the rails. Their answer: The GOP is the favorite of God and that the American people have abandoned God and therefore have abandoned conservatism. It's not conservatism that I question, but the catering to nutcases.

I feel the GOP abandoned me when today's moderate Democrats look like the former Grand Old Party.

See the news story at:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/critical-race-theory-teachers-union-honest-history/