Tell that to Mainers, who were blitzkrieged by it (although the more correct Deutsche word is “Bewegungskrieg”). These are radical policies with radical results, no matter how much buffoons like @zecarlo insist it is “same stuff on both sides”.
In Lewiston the broader population of politically active people are just coming to understand what was done and how it was all brought about to the point where nobody is really arguing with the facts we present.
It is hard to believe and people don’t want to believe it is true, but it is. Some have great difficulty confronting the reality.
The effort to destroy the lives of anyone who speaks against the DSA agenda is very real in Maine, and the rhetoric is getting heated. This isn’t a game anymore, and it certainly isn’t a theoretical academic debate.
A woman I know has a daughter who was assaulted and savagely beaten by three girls on the school bus. This was filmed in its entirety and posted to social media. It was a savage assault that landed her in the hospital with a severe concussion. No murkiness to the situation at all.
Her daughter happened to be white and the assailants happened to be of Somalian heritage.
The school responded by removing the child who was beaten off of the bus, offering her a special van to ride to school. The superintendent, who answers to a DSA school board majority (“elected” at very local level), explained that it was the assailants’ right to ride the school bus. One of the assailants was given a “student of the month” type of award a few weeks later.
Activists are currently in the process of trying to ruin her hairdressing business for having the audacity to speak at public comment and organize with like-minded people over the internet. She is called a white supremacist by groups organizing on reddit.
The man who threatened to kick my teeth in is very active with Maine Democrats, and has spoken against this woman, too.
THEY COME FOR EVERYTHING.
That’s what they mean with words like “equity”. That’s what they mean with words like “restorative justice”. For another example of those ideas in action, the Maine Community Foundation siphoned off nearly 2 million dollars donated to our mass shooting victims, who all happened to be white, to unrelated PRISONER and MIGRANT nonprofits.
They can shove their equity straight up their asses. Maine is not a racist place and nobody here likes that shit.
No, they are an unorganized mess and have been for decades, but they are not the ones trying to tear down the laws that rendered Maine a very Scandinavian type of place to live for the 20th Century. Peaceful and tolerant.
Some good leadership is emerging from all of this dysfunction, as is expected, I suppose. Look up Laurel Libby of Auburn, ME to see what that looks like. She’s killing it, doing livestreams with in-depth discussions of her ideas and criticism. She writes clearly and with good depth. There’s NOTHING like that from Maine Democrats, who have no leg to stand on now except whipping up fear, which is exactly what they are doing.
We’re LONG past the theoretical debate here in Maine, and everything I’ve written about the situation is the truth, with no attempt to distort but to be as clear as possible.
I assure you, I am not imaging this. It is bad enough for me to take a crack at writing a book.
