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[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago

It's wild people are just realizing this literally decades into this far right group grooming jr politicians and incoming officers at every military academy...

It's like looking at your house on fire, flames leaping from every opening, and being concerned if your pillow is going to smell like smoke tonight.

Yeah, that would suck to smell smoke all night.

But the bigger issue is it smells like smoke, because it's been reduced to ash.

Military academies (school for officers):

https://truthout.org/articles/underground-group-of-cadets-says-air-force-academy-controlled-by-evangelicals/

Politicians:

https://www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwatch/post/the-family-explores-secretive-group-focused-on-building-networks-of-power

I'm not saying them pressuring trump isn't bad, I'm saying it's infinitly worse that over the last 30 years they've installed their people and had them recruiting peers the whole way.

It's not just "extremist Protestantism" it's the verbatim 1920 "second wave kkk" plan:

https://billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/the-ku-klux-klan-in-the-1920s/

And that's not the end game, that was what in sports is referred to as "rebuild years" where the focus was on growing membership and distancing from the hands on violence of lynching to systemic violence perpetuated thru legal but highly unethical means.

People really need to start learning this shit, it's honestly the same playbooks, we can easily tell where they're going, we just have to actually learn history.

The bad news is, we missed the off ramp they took last time:

Just as quickly as the Klan rose in membership and influence, however, it collapsed. There were many reasons. Some members were embarrassed by the organization’s bigotry, some by its silly regalia and ceremonies, or its money grubbing. Others were repulsed by its violence or its hypocrisy.

The Klan’s most fatal weakness was rooted in its poor leadership. The organization claimed to stand for morality, but its leaders provided the worst possible examples. For example, Edward Y. Clarke and Mary Elizabeth Tyler, the two Atlanta-based publicists who masterminded the Klan’s skyrocketing rise, were soon revealed to have been arrested in 1919 for sexual impropriety and possession of illegal alcohol. Then, with millions of dollars rolling in, infighting for control grew fierce, and Klan founder and Grand Wizard Col. William Simmons found himself ousted by Houston dentist Hiram W. Evans. Evans had allied himself with perhaps the Klan’s most successful personality, Indiana Grand Dragon David C. Stephenson. Stephenson, a former Socialist and a failed Democratic congressional candidate, had quickly engineered a Klan takeover of Indiana’s Republican Party. Clearly the most powerful man in Indiana, Stephenson (who said, “I am the law in Indiana”) viewed himself as a future senator and perhaps even president of the United States.

In April 1925, however, the 33-year-old Stephenson forced his aide, 28-year-old Madge Oberholtzer, onto a Chicago-bound train, where he assaulted and raped her. She attempted suicide, but her death a few weeks later was ruled to have followed from infection of the wounds Stephenson had inflicted on her. A jury found Stephenson guilty of rape, kidnapping, and second-degree murder.

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