{"id":32225,"date":"2021-08-04T12:14:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T17:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=32225"},"modified":"2021-08-04T12:32:51","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T17:32:51","slug":"32225","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=32225","title":{"rendered":"Some paranoia is deserved, some is financed with deep pockets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mention this book in next Friday&#8217;s column the Reader:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41PuiEU1huL._SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_FMwebp_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I mention in the column that I only have 100 pages of it under my belt. Now its 178 pages.<\/p>\n<p>The title may mislead. Its The Tucker Carlson Fan Club. It concludes with my hard advice for the start of schools this fall.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican Party is flirting with Satan. Tucker Carlson now the favorite mouthpiece for White racists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/08\/04\/american-conservatives-orban-hungary\/\">is off to Victor Orban&#8217;s Hungary<\/a>, (Democratic Europe&#8217;s greatest embarrassment) making money with his mouth. <\/p>\n<p>I mention in my column that Jesus and John Wayne is a book my wife tore through and then recommended to me. At a recent week of a church camp with our daughter and grandson&#8217;s a speaker recommended a similarly apocalyptic six part series on the Fellowship the secretive group that has put on the National Prayer Breakfast since 1953. Its a fascinating series and halfway through it I haven&#8217;t quite made up my mind how big a deal it is. I found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2019\/08\/the-family-netflix-review-religious-political-group\/596035\/\">a somewhat skeptical review of it&#8217;s importance<\/a> on the Atlantic site. <\/p>\n<p>What it shows me without any debate is the growing concentration of the very rich and influential increasingly steering America in the Direction of the rich getting richer. <\/p>\n<p>Along those lines I sped through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2021\/08\/09\/the-big-money-behind-the-big-lie\">a story<\/a> about Jane Mayer&#8217;s latest report about the same folks she wrote about in her book <a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=21927\">Dark Money<\/a>. Same people, same results, Same threat to the common good. <\/p>\n<p>It turns out that both sides can churn out fear inspiring documentaries. The Big Rig is a movie financed by a Rich Trump supporter all about how the Arizona election was stolen from Trump. I am considerably more skeptical of this because it is such obvious bullshit. More shit from a pro dictatorial Republican eager to undermine democracy.<\/p>\n<p>Pete Stauber. <strong>Repent!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mention this book in next Friday&#8217;s column the Reader: I mention in the column that I only have 100 pages of it under&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,90,20,60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32227,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32225\/revisions\/32227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}