Way back in the 1970s, Jerry Brown got tagged as “Governor Moonbeam” in California for far-out ideas that turned out far-seeing, like environmental consciousness and the state launching its own space satellite.
Mark Robinson would be Governor Bonkers.
A HuffPost article, “The Unbelievably Bonkers Conspiracy Theorist Running For Governor Of North Carolina,” collected some of Robinson’s past musings:
Beyoncé is “satanic,” and the 1969 moon landing may have been fake.
The 9/11 terrorist attacks were an “inside job,” and he’s “SERIOUSLY skeptical” of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination and of the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas.
David Hogg, a survivor of the 2018 mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, is a paid actor.
Climate change is based on “junk science.”
Reality TV shows American Idol, Dancing With The Stars and Chopped are a sign of an impending New World Order, akin to Stalin’s Show Trials, “Where people were lined up and judged then executed.”
(How about Trump’s The Apprentice?)
The article said Robinson “has also routinely pushed the ‘New World Order’ conspiracy theory, which involves forced depopulation programs, a secretive ruling class of reptiles and ‘elite globalists’ on a satanic mission to bring about the ‘end times’.”
A “New World Order”? The New World Order we should fear is the one Robinson, Trump and MAGA Republicans want: a total abortion ban, book bans, no dissent, rigged elections, gender discrimination, LGBTQ+-bullying and private religious schools over of public schools.
And a “secretive ruling class of reptiles”?
Earth to Mark.
Huffpost gave Robinson a chance to extend, defend or amend his comments, but “a Robinson campaign spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment on whether he stands by all of these claims.”
Jerry Brown’s ideas were smart, thoughtful and ahead of their time.
Mark Robinson’s ideas are just bonkers.
Pardon back-to-back blogs on Mark Robinson, but he says he was misquoted.
By his autobiography.
In the 2022 autobiography, “We Are The Majority,” the Republican candidate for governor said K-5 education should focus exclusively on reading, writing and math:
“In those grades, we don’t need to be teaching social studies. We don’t need to be teaching science. We surely don’t need to be talking about equity and social justice.”
At the Charlotte Rotary Club last week, Robinson said:
“I’ve been accused of saying — people say I want to get rid of science and history in elementary school. That’s not true.”
Who said it, then?
ChatGPT?
AI?
Or (see last blog) the “secretive ruling class of reptiles”?
