Oct 30, 2017
as part of writing this russian conspiracy shit, i was verifying a fact about bakersfield i first learned when i was in high school, a fact that taught me very early on that Americans were stupid but still nonetheless venomous vipers.
a preacher there ran for the high school district’s board of trustees specifically on the platform to ban books and create an environment of xenophobia.
he won his seat with more votes than any other candidate, and would only be unseated by himself, when he decided to retire.
it taught me fourteen years ago what americans are today refusing to accept to the point that their denial is rotting into paranoia of an external threat that made them this way.
