Matthew Beck: Moms for Liberty’s Plan to “Light up” School Board Fizzles Out
Posting from Alaska, Matthew Beck reports on a Moms for Liberty attempt to “light up” a school board meeting. It didn’t turn out so well.
While students and educators are busily preparing for another year of growth and achievement, the very fine people of Moms for Liberty Anchorage are spending their time attempting to recruit unqualified right-wing dum dums to run for two open seats on the school board in next year’s municipal election. They’ve also spent a lot of time trying to rally others to their cause.
Ahead of last evening’s first school board meeting of the new school year, Gabby Ide, chair of the extremist group Moms for Liberty’s Anchorage chapter, took to Facebook with inflammatory rhetoric. In an anti-government group, she issued a call to action, urging supporters to attend the meeting and “light ’em [the school board] up.” It was a deliberate use of a phrase intended to incite aggression and hostility toward the school board but ultimately failed to ignite the “fires of liberty.”
For an extremist organization, using this type of rhetoric is entirely acceptable. And, to be clear, Ide loves spewing inflammatory rhetoric, evidenced by this use of violent imagery, to depict her ongoing Parental Rights war against the non-existent evil forces she falsely claims want to separate the influence of parents over their children.
Thankfully, Anchorage residents aren’t buying it. Only one person answered the call to “light up” the school board. Not even Chapter Vice-Chair Doug Weimann showed up to testify, undoubtedly because he’s been focused on other, more…important things.
