The metaphor of a level playing field is hard to apply to discourse about political issues & when one side shouts, lies and demeans the other, there’s no “field,” much less a level one. The far right & maga want power. They call progressives names, but cannot reply to arguments. 1/9

I won’t waste time on people steeped in red maga ink or who think IN’s Lt Gov didn’t make up “the Lord” taking credit for Jan 6. [FN1] The Lt Gov didn’t believe his own lies or he’d have demanded Jan 6's thugs be released: they acted on divine orders. In a follow-up: 2/9

The Lt Gov said: “Yeah. I didn’t say I liked it [] the Lord is doing and allowing ... Now, I don't think it was an insurrection by any stretch of the imagination.” [FN2] That’s dissing “the Lord.” The far right wants to ban books so they can cover their tracks. I footnote my blogs... 3/9

The Framers believed in freedom of, and from, religion. The “freedom” to worship a deity of hatred was NOT the goal. Some far right thugs brag that progressives won’t come onto their shows. Of course not: there’s no level playing field. Watch the Nazis’ trials in ‘44 4/9

of conspirators who tried to kill Hitler. Judges shrieked as the defendants, in clothes given to them by jailers, tried to keep up the too-large pants w/o belts or suspenders. Today’s far right thugs can shut off mics & yell. So boasts of a stupid fuck like Kevin_Smith45 or Indy’s 5/9

shit-for-brains “gun guy” are hollow. And the Lt Gov of Indiana? He has people who will take the flak for his racist & misogynistic comments. Today’s Christofascists are as scared of a level playing field as their predecessors in the 12-and-a-half Year Reich. 6/9

“We used to say the perfect Nazi was as thin as Goering, as tall as Goebbels and as blonde as Hitler.” That was credited to Adolf Eichmann. Please read my blogs these next few days. Read other sources. Check my footnotes. We can’t let this hatred spread. 7/9

And if one of these stupid fucks wants to debate, groovy. We can agree on a topic, time limits & order of speaking. Those are elements of debate & a level playing field. In the meantime, I want to make sure people understand the lies being told by the far right. 8/9

Footnotes:
FN1. In a video recorded on 1/7/21, Beckwith said the Lord told him “‘Micah…I sent those riots to Washington. He said, ‘what you saw yesterday was my hand at work.’” Wren, Adam, “Confessions of an Alleged Book Banner,” Importantville, 9/24/23.
FN2. Id. 9/9