Witch hunts are back in vogue with Kansas Republicansâliterally.
Ty Masterson, the Republican candidate in the Kansas gubernatorial race, accused his Democratic opponent, Cindy Holscher, of being an actual witch capable of âdemonicâ magic, while speaking at the Praise Chapel in Wichita on Sunday.
Masterson introduced the dubious portion of his pseudo-sermon by suggesting that God wanted him to run for Kansasâs top political office.
âGodâs armies are out there in this,â Masterson said. âWhat weâre fighting right now is a spiritual battle that Iâve never seen before, in [this] state, in this politics.
âEvil is maturing with the brotherhood, and it is rising to a level that is just in your face,â Masterson continued as a pianist played a contemplative melody beside him. âReally, my race and the U.S. Senate race with Roger Marshall versus [Adam] Hamilton. Those are spiritual battles.
âLike I said, my opponent, she didnât even hide it,â Masterson added. âShe talkedâthey had witchâI mean, theyâre doing like witchcraft spells on TikTok so she can win the governorship. I mean, theyâre like ⌠itâs like demonic stuff that theyâre doing, right? Just in your face that way.â
Lack of education, mostly
The professional class is given to believing bullshit too, and theyâve all been educated by societiesâ standards.
Even in grade through high school, critical thinking and evaluating sources was drilled into us.
I think the failure is the anti intellectual bent in this country, which I believe was fostered by the rich in the business roundtable of 1971 that made a long game to overthrow liberal democracy.
Not being critical is hardly the only thing to mention, the nihilistic worldview where nothing matters other than money for oneself, that itâs not dishonorable to make obscene profits parasitically feeding on productive companies, killing of History class in any real way and corrupting what is left, and so forth.