And your personal convictions haven’t changed. You are hounded, subject to persecution, even execution, at the hands of your own government. ![]() Now imagine your nation’s politics have shifted so radically in the space of two short years, you find yourself on the “reactionary right”. Your personal politics are middle of the road, maybe a little to the left but in all respects, “Moderate”. Imagine you were there, from the beginning. ![]() The Witchcraft Hysteria of 1692 and the granddaddy of them all la Grande Peur, the Great Fear sweeping across 1789 France culminating in the French Revolution, the Napoleonic wars and an estimated 3.1 million dead Frenchmen.Īll that to return back to the status quo, in 1815. History abounds with episodes of mass hysteria. In 1954, widespread observation of previously unnoticed pits and dings in windshields caused residents of Washington state to believe there was an epidemic of windshield pitting, attributed to everything from sand flea eggs, to nuclear testing. In 1688, no fewer than 19 counties in England and Wales mobilized to defend against armed and rampaging bands of non-existent Irishmen. Scores of millions of women and men of all persuasions and all political stripes quietly shake their heads in hopes that this too, shall pass. That men participating in women’s sports is perfectly reasonable, that men can give birth. ![]() In recent months we have learned from such “elites”, that math is racist. Leaving a reasonable person to wonder, what exactly renders these people, “elite”? And why would such a thing warrant any response at all, save for a one-finger salute? Turns out the Grace Church School doesn’t like the terms, “Mom” and “Dad”. The news this morning spoke of an “elite” private school in New York, and the 12-page memorandum sent home to Moms and Dads.
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