Birds of a feather …

I don’t know if Alonza Jiles is guilty of the heinous allegations against him at The Lord’s Ranch. Empress Sarah and her cabal are quick to condemn Jiles before any trial or conviction. The glaring contradiction here is that they support and adore Donald J. Trump, whose abominable history of boasting about freely abusing women, lying about and to the American people, denigrating heroic military service members, and countless other atrocities are well-known. They know what a foul reputation he has and still praise him as the best person to be leader of this country.

It’s said that birds of a feather flock together. and it seems the gutless wonders who represent Arkansas have sold their integrity to remain vassals of such a disreputable wouldbe autocrat as Trump is. It is tragic that what one would hope are enlightened people have fallen for such deceit by “evangelicals” who are sullying the name of Christ.

Empress Sarah, using her deviousness and veto-proof cabal, has all taxpayers now subsidizing private religious schools, whether we are believers or not. Most rednecks haven’t a clue that parochial means religious, so she sneaked that past folks who’ve fought it for decades. Your kids are sentenced to 75 hours of required but uncompensated “community service” to graduate. That’s slavery. Where is the pro bono lawyer with guts enough to file a suit to stop it? Voluntary—good; compulsory—illegal. These hypocrites are holding us to Republican law that is not even that, but Trumpist garbage.

The empress orders that our schools not teach the full factual history of our state and nation. She allows only what her vassal Jacob Oliva approves and he only approves what garbaged-up schools have taught as history for decades. That was peddled as facts but has always been either wrong or incomplete. She knows that uninformed people are much easier to control and manipulate. So she’s demanding compulsory ignorance. That ensures that the under-educated in the Dear Old South will still vote for her idol, D.J. Trump. What they’re not allowed to learn will continue to work to the advantage of would-be autocrats like her.

KARL HANSEN

Hensley