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Moms4Liberty, not to be content with strangling intellectual freedom in Montgomery County Schools, has planted itself in Howard County with hopes of continuing its process of replication and division (and so on and so on.) They have four whole posts on their Instagram account.

Image from m4lhcmd Instagram account

Here you see them promoting an upcoming event to be held this Tuesday at Bare Bones Grill and Bar. Here’s the text:

Howard County Republican Womens & HoCo GOP Clubs

“Elections Have Consequences, A Cautionary Tale” by David Shephard

Tuesday, Sept. 19 2023 7:00-8:00PM

Business Meeting & Speaker Event

David Shephard, Speaker

Conservative Virginia blogger, David Shephard* exposes the sinister, detrimental, and hypocritical tactic of diversity politics

(book may be purchased on Amazon or at meeting while supply lasts)

Bare Bones Grill & Bar

9150 Baltimore National Pike

Ellicott City, MD 21042

Food and Drinks for Purchase at Bare Bones

www.hocogopwomen.com

“Sinister, detrimental, and hypocritical.” Interesting.  The poster depicts the cover of Shephard’s book. The back of the book is, shall we say, quite educational.

Images from book description page on Amazon 

Fiction / Political

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

- George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905

Many who are politically conservative sincerely believe the political left intentionally stokes racism. They do so by constantly pounding the table about "White Supremacy," which nowadays is virtually non-existent, and by promoting Critical Race Theory in schools so that non-whites will grow up believing that they are helpless victims. The Left does so, they believe, in order to keep minorities perpetually in a separate, under class, and struggling for survival. The logic is simple.

Stunting the growth and development of non-whites will keep them voting for Democrats. In 2021, however, Virginians by and large saw through this ruse. For lieutenant governor, they elected a black female Republican, Winsome Earle-Sears. For governor, they elected a while male Republican, Glenn Youngkin. To the office of Attorney General, they elected a Hispanic Republican, Jason Miyares. Never before had a political party in Virginia offered up such an ethnically diverse ticket, nor had the citizens ever elected one.

This novel by a conservative Virginia blogger exposes the sinister, detrimental, and hypocritical tactic of diversity politics. The characters and events portrayed, while fiction, bear an eerie resemblance to the players and the events that took place in the administration prior to the election of Earle-Sears, Youngkin, and Miyares. Some might even describe this novel as a roman à clef. Perhaps it is, or maybe it is not. One thing, however, is not in doubt. It is meant as a warning to Virginia's voters, and to freedom lovers of all persuasions in whatever state they may live, to keep the events of the early twenty-first century in mind whenever they go to the polls.

Don't miss this political thriller, and whatever you do, think about it the next time you cast a ballot.

So the Howard County Republican Women are bringing the author of a political thriller to town for a book talk and M4Lhcmd is promoting it. Sounds lovely doesn’t it? Sounds more like an opportunity for afternoon tea in a lovely garden setting until it really hits you what the heart of this fiction is. Shephard is promoting these fictional concepts as fact:

Many who are politically conservative sincerely believe the political left intentionally stokes racism. They do so by constantly pounding the table about "White Supremacy," which nowadays is virtually non-existent, and by promoting Critical Race Theory in schools so that non-whites will grow up believing that they are helpless victims. The Left does so, they believe, in order to keep minorities perpetually in a separate, under class, and struggling for survival. The logic is simple.

If any of the above were true, why does Shephard put an ominous-looking photograph of the removal of (what I assume is) a Confederate War statue on the cover of his book? How can one suggest with a straight face that “white supremacy is virtually nonexistent” while deliberately using the fear of white replacement and the loss of white power systems to sell the dang book?

They’re taking away our statues, our heroes, our symbols…who knows what’s next?

Yet these folks will be adamant that they aren’t against diversity. Oh no, they’re against “Diversity Politics” a term they have made up** to hide behind when forwarding their bankrupt arguments about whose history gets taught and who receives justice under the law. 

“Sinister, detrimental, and hypocritical.” What is that thing where you accuse your opponent of what you, yourself, are doing? 

Interesting, isn’t it, that local Republicans, whose County Executive is a Democrat, Calvin Ball, and who Governor is also a Democrat, Wes Moore, are going whole hog on the “diversity politics” bandwagon. Do they think that this is the magic potion that will drive their voters to the polls? 

If so, that says a lot more about them than it does about Democrats. This is more than saying the quiet part out loud. It’s putting it front and center - - on the cover your book.

Village Green/Town² Comments 

*I can’t find any trace of the blog Mr. Shephard refers to. I did find a listing of “David Shephard, Public Policy Consultant and Contractor” in Falls Church, Virginia, but no associated content of any kind. UPDATE: found it her: http://thevagentleman.blogspot.com/ . “Virginia Gentleman”?

**See also: “gender ideology.”