i was thinking the same thing....I think it's fair to say they had more power in the past, before women and POC could vote. Sigh. Backwards we go! argh.
Thank you, Jess, for pointing out that this situation did not start with Trump. It's been going in since the late 1950s - look up Fred Koch (and his sons after him). Starting with the John Birch Society. Heard of that? There is a great song from the folk music era of the 1960s, the lyrics of which I am putting in a new comment:
This country was never all white, all Christian. Never. This would be a first.
i was thinking the same thing....I think it's fair to say they had more power in the past, before women and POC could vote. Sigh. Backwards we go! argh.
We WILL not give up! FIGHT!!!
Thank you, Jessica! THANK YOU! No, I won't quit, on the contrary. Staying in the fight stronger than ever before.
thanks for your relentless optimism and hope and courage! we need it!!
Love you Jess!
Thank you, Jess, for pointing out that this situation did not start with Trump. It's been going in since the late 1950s - look up Fred Koch (and his sons after him). Starting with the John Birch Society. Heard of that? There is a great song from the folk music era of the 1960s, the lyrics of which I am putting in a new comment:
THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY
By Michael Brown
Oh, we're meetin' at the courthouse at eight o'clock tonight
You just walk in the door and take the first turn to the right
Be careful when you get there, we hate to be bereft
But we're taking down the names of everybody turning left
Oh, we're the John Birch Society, the John Birch Society
Here to save our country from a communistic plot
Join the John Birch Society, help us fill the ranks
To get this movement started we need lots of tools and cranks
Now there's no one that we're certain the Kremlin doesn't touch
We think that Westbrook Pegler doth protest a bit too much
We only hail the hero from whom we got our name
We're not sure what he did but he's our hero just the same
Oh, we're the John Birch Society, the John Birch Society
Socialism is the ism dismalest of all
Join the John Birch Society, there's so much to do
Have you heard they're serving vodka at the WCTU?
Well you've heard about the agents that we've already named
Well MPA has agents that are flauntedly unashamed
We're after Rosie Clooney, we've gotten Pinkie Lee
And the day we get Red Skelton won't that be a victory
Oh we're the John Birch Society, the John Birch Society
Norman Vincent Peale may think he's kidding us along
But the John Birch Society knows he spilled the beans
He keeps on preaching brotherhood, but we know what he means
We'll teach you how to spot 'em in the cities or the sticks
For even Jasper Junction is just full of Bolsheviks
The CIA's subversive and so's the FCC
There's no one left but thee and we, and we're not sure of thee
Oh, we're the John Birch Society, the John Birch Society
Here to save our country from a communistic plot
Join the John Birch Society holding off the Reds
We'll use our hand and hearts and if we must we'll use our heads
Do you want Justice Warren for your Commissar?
Do you want Mrs. Krushchev in there with the DAR?
You cannot trust your neighbor or even next of kin
If mommie is a commie then you gotta turn her in
Oh, we're the John Birch Society, the John Birch Society
Fighting for the right to fight the right fight for the Right
Join the John Birch Society as we're marching on
And we'll all be glad to see you when we're meeting in the John
The John, the John Birch So- ci- I- teee.
The Chad Mitchell Trio introduced the song in 1962:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5f1KpfngH4
Obviously it's very out of date re the persons mentioned. Sixty + years later, these lyrics need an update.
Jessica, have you watched this? https://open.substack.com/pub/katiephang/p/new-scotus-rulings-live-w-jen-norm?r=h0feb&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
What do you think?
That’s not a correct assessment.
Please check out this breakdown on Katie Phang’s Substack. They start talking about this issue at 2:25
https://open.substack.com/pub/katiephang/p/new-scotus-rulings-live-w-jen-norm?r=5e78ab&utm_medium=ios
The work you to did is amazing.