Posted on 11/20/2022 11:31:43 AM PST by Signalman
One of the comforting fictions conservatives are increasingly tempted to tell themselves is that if they just move to a red state or county, the insanity of the woke left won’t affect them and their family. Ensconced in safely Republican communities, perhaps they’ll be free not just from disastrous Democrat policies but also from the pernicious sexual propaganda of the left. For conservatives with children, this is especially important.
But it’s a mirage. There is no American town or hamlet remote or red enough to prevent the infiltration of leftist ideology, which today often comes from institutions that in an earlier era would have been seen as the guardians of a decidedly Christian civic virtue. Not only are left-wing activists taking over these institutions, but they are also working to ban conservatives, and especially Christians, from the public square altogether.
There is nowhere today that conservatives can run and hide from the left. They can either surrender or stand and fight.
Consider what’s playing out in the small town of Taylor, Texas, population 16,807. Situated about 40 miles northeast of deep-blue Austin, it has long been precisely the sort of place conservative families might move to raise their children — a quiet and peaceful town full of churches in a deep-red part of the Lone Star State.
For decades, Taylor has staged a Christmas — not “holiday” — parade down Main Street. The Taylor Christmas Parade of Lights is a beloved tradition that for the past 10 years or so has been organized under the auspices of the Taylor Area Ministerial Alliance, or TAMA, a coalition of local churches.
Last year, as a result of an oversight in the application process, an LGBT advocacy group called Taylor Pride was included in the parade. The oversight in this case was that the old ladies who volunteer to organize the parade and process float applications had never heard of a group called Taylor Pride and didn’t realize what it was. (And no wonder, before the summer of 2021 the group had never staged a public event.)
By the time parade organizers found out, it was too late. Two men dressed in drag, one as a female Santa and the other scantily clad in glitter, were suggestively gyrating to dance music on the Taylor Pride float as it rolled down Main Street in the annual Christmas parade — as it happened, right in front of a float for Saint Mary’s Catholic School, which was full of children.
Parents and attendees were understandably outraged. Soon after the parade, TAMA decided that in the future, parade entries must be consistent with traditional biblical and family values, and made an announcement to that effect ahead of this year’s parade. The point, as TAMA’s statement made clear, was not to exclude any individuals or groups from attending or even participating in the parade, but to ensure the floats were family-friendly and not contrary to Christian teachings.
In response, the Taylor City Council announced it would stage a separate, city-sponsored parade, calling it the “Very Merry Holiday Parade and Celebration” — on the same night as the traditional TAMA parade, following immediately behind it on the same route, for the express purpose of giving Taylor Pride and other LGBT groups a parade of their own. As a recent post on the City of Taylor’s official Facebook page explained, the city is doing this because “we are committed to being inclusive and diverse in the City of Taylor.”
A spokesman for the city has since falsely characterized the situation to at least one local news outlet, saying TAMA had “made it clear that they did not want certain people to be a part of the parade,” and, “They were going to go in a little bit of a different direction … and make it a little bit more exclusive.”
This is exactly the opposite of what’s happened. The only thing that’s changed is that TAMA has realized that LGBT groups like Taylor Pride have targeted their town and attempted, with some success, to infiltrate and undermine their traditional civic celebrations of Christmas. So they decided to push back and insist on the survival of their traditions. Good for them.
The point here is that Taylor might as well be every conservative community in America. It’s located in Texas’s 31st Congressional District, one of two congressional districts in Texas that have never been represented by a Democrat. Voters there just reelected Republican Rep. John Carter for the 11th time. He ran unopposed. Taylor also sits in Williamson County, where nearly every elected office is held by a Republican.
Indeed, Taylor is the last place in the country where a family attending a Christmas parade organized by a coalition of local churches would expect to see two men in drag dancing inappropriately on a float rolling down Main Street. Yet like many such towns across the country, the city council and municipal staff are eager to prove just how enlightened and woke they are. Send in the drag queen holiday floats.
By now, Christians in Taylor must surely know that next year, there will be only one parade down Main Street in December — and it won’t be the Taylor Christmas Parade of Lights. Unless they vote the city council out of office and clean house in City Hall, traditions like the Christmas parade will soon be a thing of the past there, another lost battle in a never-ending war of attrition waged by the left. Same goes for the public library and the public schools. If conservatives don’t take them over, the left will.
It might just be one small town in Texas, but Taylor stands as a cautionary tale. It isn’t enough to move to a red state or a Republican district. You are going to have to fight the left, and win, or surrender to them. There is nowhere left to hide.
No! then they will brand us as “violent”. We don’t want THAT, do we? Stay the course...TRUST THE PLAN!!!! Right?
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I agree. Sometimes I hear the case for secession, but the problem with that is you just have two countries with a libtard problem.
For example, how do you get them out of your universities and schools, businesses and institutions?
Even if you could, whichever country got more successful would rapidly develop a ‘tard infestation again.
Everybody goes home and then the two homosexuals twerk down the street.
Turn off the streetlights to save money.
I agree with the author. I have been saying this for years-in the battle against Leftism, we cannot retreat past a dotted line on a map. Leftism is a cancer.
It is insidious, deadly, and contagious. It isn’t going to stop at the blood-brain barrier constituted by a state border.
It exists and persists for the same reasons that the concept of a perpetual motion machine exists. It panders to the mentally weak, mentally lazy, and spiritually corrupt. It is the concept of getting something for nothing, free money.
Yeah, the ‘tards in the article are the worst kind. These are the ones that are actively seeking us out to corrupt our kids and disgust normal people.
These freaks are not like the libtard soccer mom in the suburbs of LA people tell me about.
These ones are coming for us, no matter where we go. Actively seeking us out.
MAGA will fight. RINOs write sternly worded letters.
Just make the last entry in the first parade about 200 head of cattle. They can follow that.
Eff secession. That means they automatically win territory.
He’s right there is nowhere to run and hide. If don’t take a stand where we are the left will destroy it all.
They also have to worry about lawsuits which seldom go our way.
So even if the townsfolk got active, kicked the current bums out, and put in some "red meat" conservatives things might not change much.
Cities that want to stay red need to divorce themselves from state and federal funds. If they have to raise some other tax or fee to keep the city afloat, then better that than to have to be at the beck and call of increasingly blue state and federal governments.
..Congressman John Carter, a useless old Bushie who hides under his desk and sometimes brags about all the money he brings home to Fort Hood (about to be renamed) and the woke troops. Didn’t vote for him and the County is changing so Beto is getting more edge of Austin voters than Abbott. Local Repubs love the old pro-amnesty judge and there is no MAGA candidate to take him on, sadly... ymmv
/echo
There aren’t enough of us sane people alive in this country.
Rush was right (shall we say prophetic). Too many have gone woke. 2022 didn’t get swept as hoped.
Every conservative who wishes to easily crush leftist, demonic influences needs to pray the rosary daily. Since few pray the rosary, it seems the left is infiltrating every small town. Good news: there are millions in America who pray the rosary daily.
“…suggestively gyrating to dance music on the Taylor Pride float as it rolled down Main Street in the annual Christmas parade —“
So what happened to your be “community standards” we’ve heard so much about lately?
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