In a sense, local stories like these represent a distinct flip of the adage that “all politics is local.” Now, all politics is national. They fear what you, the people, might become. They are not so mighty yet that they are above fear. If anything, the story revealed that when conservative voters get their act together, vote for candidates who reflect their values, and the candidates implement those values, real change happens.Īnd this gets to why the Left and their media pawns are in a panic over something seemingly so minor. The new elected coalition sought to reshape the curriculum and did away with some “mental health” services they found to be ineffective.
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40% of the high school’s professional staff won’t return next year - NBC News May 9, 2023.Did not reapply for grants to pay counselors.Adopted a right-wing group’s social studies program.NEW: Conservatives took over a Colorado school board, and then: So, they were referring to the principles of George Washington and the Founders, who must have been “far right” extremists by the standards of the legacy media.Īnother story, this one from NBC in early May, detailed how conservatives in Woodland Park, Colorado, transformed a school district.Īgain, the rather lengthy report portrayed conservatives as this alien, ominous threat that was changing a nonpartisan school board.
The Sumner County Commission document that the AP highlighted said that its operations would be conducted in an orderly way and “most importantly, reflective of the Judeo-Christian values inherent in the nation’s founding.” It’s George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation in 1789. Oh, wait, that’s not from the Sumner County Commission in Tennessee. “Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor.” The AP reporter wrote that those allegedly “far right” people are “operating outside political norms, inviting lawsuits, and jeopardizing elections and other county operations.”īut the evidence for that is that some of the new county commissioners opposed increased property taxes, sought to change election rules, and-horror of horrors-invoked Christian values in making decisions. What exactly does “far right” mean? The AP Stylebook doesn’t say, but it seems like it means “people who effectively combat the Left.” The tensions are playing out in one Tennessee county where a local Constitutional Republicans group now controls a commission. The AP’s Twitter account referred to the conservatives as “far right.”įar-right conservatives have been targeting seats on local boards and commissions, in many cases to gain oversight of elections. You know, stuff that was totally normal until the media said it wasn’t, a half-second ago.Ī recent example of this phenomenon would be an Associated Press article on Sunday about how conservatives are winning local county board and commission elections in Tennessee. It’s usually something like switching to paper ballots in elections, shaping the curriculums of local schools, or getting sexually explicit content out of classrooms. Then, find a few squishy, Chamber of Commerce-type Republicans to quote, saying something like, “Everything here was great and reasonable until these mean, unreasonable people showed up.”įinally, after describing the purported upstarts in the darkest and most threatening way possible, bury what they actually intend to do somewhere near the end of the article. Next, define the newly elected officials as unhinged, right-wing wackos who represent a kind of proto-fascism in America.
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The first step is to unearth a local political body that conservatives have taken control of through an election or series of elections. The legacy media now follow an oft-replicated formula in this new genre. Over the past few years, there have been a growing number of national media stories-really, more like partisan exposés, rather than “X, Y, Z happened”-about local politics. Our corrupted institutions fear that the American people are taking back their birthright-that is, taking back the concept of self-government.Ī relatively new, but growing media genre highlights that dynamic.
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