{"id":38333,"date":"2022-05-13T18:40:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T02:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparselysageandtimely.com\/blog\/?p=38333"},"modified":"2022-05-18T15:04:23","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T23:04:23","slug":"election-rants-and-craziness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sparselysageandtimely.com\/?p=38333","title":{"rendered":"Election rants and craziness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In California’s Official Voter Information Guide<\/strong>, which came in the mail this past week, most of the 125 candidates listed make grand declarations of their political stands, as might be expected. A surprising number of candidates, however, seem off the wall, airing bigotry and conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Abolish the insurance companies,” declares Nathalie Hrizi, the Peace and Freedom Party candidate for insurance commissioner, but gives no rationale.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u2022 “Capitalism enables corporate masters to exacerbate crisis of health, poverty, oppression, climate change and war in allegiance to profit,” writes John Thompson Parker (left<\/em>), Peace and Freedom Party candidate for the Senate. “Ownership of production and finance must be controlled by the people. This senate campaign is about building that socialist systematic change.”<\/p>\n

\u2022 “I believe God wants to use me to help Him make America Righteous Again,” announces Chuck Smith (below<\/em>), a Republican candidate for the Senate.<\/p>\n

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\u2022 “Those who enabled the Covid-19 pandemic and resulting crippling lockdowns must be held accountable,” says another Republican candidate for the Senate, Mark P Meuser.<\/p>\n

\u2022 “Our leadership has used the COVID-19 pandemic to turn the state into a big pharma dictatorship,” insists gubernatorial candidate Serge Fiankan (below), who gives “no party preferance.”\"\"<\/p>\n

\u2022 The wildest rant, however, comes from Don J. Grundmann, who also lists no party preference and did not submit a photo. “The poisonous fake vaccines don’t work, stop infection or transmission,” he claims…. “Masks are useless\/joke against a virus. Vaxxing children is a crime. Covid is biological warfare against humanity. Vaccines kill you.” Grundmann’s declarations also include: there are “only two genders. Transgender does not exist, only psychotic broken people…. Climate change is a total lie.” He quotes a website that says Vice President Kamala Harris “is a house Negro” (i.e. “a\u00a0black person who rejects cultural identity to please the white man,” to quote\u00a0The\u00a0Urban Dictionary).<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u2022 On\u00a0the other hand, gubernatorial candidate Mariana B. Dawson, who lists no party preference, defines her beliefs with one short sentence: “F [uck] all politicians.”<\/p>\n

More than a few voters may agree with her after perusing some of the candidates’ statements.<\/p>\n

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