INTERUTERINE FEVERS OF THE FASCIST MIND

Durt Fibo, October 2, 2024

     This week saw another fine example of the incoherent magma chambers that form in fascist minds before an eruption of power devastates a nation. Today’s instance occurred in the USA, where the small Idaho town of Kendrick hosted a pre-election forum for six House and Senate candidates for District 6, including Republican Senator Dan Foreman; his Democratic opponent, Julia Parker: Republican Representative Lori McCann; and her Democratic opponent, Trish Carter-Goodheart, who happens to be a member of the Nez Perce Tribe.

     The event was jointly sponsored by Democratic and Republican precinct committee members from Kendrick.

     Foreman –an ex-policeman and throbbing Catholic- has a long public history of tantrums and sputtering imprecations. On this occasion, after Parker critiqued Foreman’s record as a senator, he told her she’d “better not” do it again. When Parker asked if he meant to threaten her, he replied: “You heard me.”

     Shortly thereafter, a member of the public asked the candidates’ opinion on a state bill addressing discrimination. When allowed her two minutes to speak, Carter-Goodheart said she believes racism and discrimination are genuine problems in the state and mentioned the history of powerful white supremacist groups based in Idaho.

     At that point, Foreman stood up and yelled: “I’m so sick and tired of this liberal bullshit! Why don’t you go back to where you came from?” then stormed out of the electoral enclave. The town’s mayor has corroborated all the foregoing to the Idaho Statesman newspaper.

     After his aborted attempt at civic interaction, Foreman ignited his Facebook page (of all places!) to claim he had been “race-baited” by Carter-Goodheart, then for no reason explode into libidinous yammering, to witless: denouncing abortion as  “murder,” gender-affirming care for transgender people as “sick and demonically influenced,” and homosexuality as an “abomination,” and finally summarizing his feelings about his performance at the forum thusly: “Does the democrat party challenge the Word of God? Yes, every person in our state and nation has equal rights under the constitution. That is a good thing. But there are no designer or special rights associated with one’s sexual behavior — sorry democrats and other lefties.”

     Idaho, a name invented by Pike’s Peak, Colorado mining lobbyist George M. Willing in 1860, is the birthplace of the neo-nazi Aryan Nations. The Nez Pierce have lived in the region for well over a millennium. Foreman was born in Illinois.