Another Day in North Dakota

 Our trail crew friends spent the night with us in Stanton, ND.  We toured the Knife River Indian Village.  Cissie helped build the replica Earth Lodge there. North Dakota is so isolated and peaceful. The nights are dark and quiet. Wildlife is abundant, and the Missouri river is nearby. In the old days we sailed here and often floated the Missouri. North Dakota has many charms, you just have to discover them. 

Working on the farm

Our old friends in North Dakota let us stay in their spare house.  It is a wonderful home built by an old friend who had amazing talents. The house has some wonderful touches including custom stain glass in the Frank Lloyd Right style. The yard is several acres and Brian has a big job mowing it. Winkie and Kadizzle used to pheasant hunt here and we have many good memories of the hunts. Winkie picked a lot of June berries down by the Knife River. The main house is unique. Brian and his dad aligned the house so the sun would shine in one dormer, and out the other on only one day a year. They used to have a party on the Summer Solstice to celebrate that day. Brian like to heat with wood so he has a pile of huge logs we have been splitting. 

The Deplorables

For entertainment Kadizzle has been interacting with the deplorables. One constant in the communication is the total lack of writing ability the deplorables are cursed with. Reading their comments it seems obvious they are stuck somewhere on the fifth or sixth grade level. The reasoning ability of the MAGA dogs is non existent. It becomes obvious why Trump loves the deplorables. They are easily fooled and manipulated. Low information MAGA minds are ripe picking for Republicans. 

Summer in North Dakota

Summers in North Dakota are hard to beat. Nights are cool, days are long, and the temperature is damn near perfect. The good old days when Kadizzle used to wake up on his wonderful sailboat back in a bay. I've got to remember its a fine memory. The quiet, ah the quiet, no dingers in loud trucks, just the birds. Green, the green is pleasant compared to the parched desert. 

We lived in North Dakota for forty years. Not much has changed. Slow, life is slow here. The total lack of people is astounding. North Dakota is the cleanest state in the union. Slumming is not popular here and people keep their property up. 

Western North Dakota has some rolling hills, but the flat East is unbearable. 

A different planet

Today Kadizzle awakened on planet North Dakota. So different. No slummers, green, green everywhere. Not a mountain in sight. The Missouri river, and prairie to the horizon. A strange prosperous state with 14 billion in the bank and only 750,000 people. It could be absolute heaven, but it is infested with Republicans in the cult protecting the rich from taxes. So a state that could have free health care, the highest paid teachers, and extremely low taxes does not. Why. The hoarded oil money is for one thing only to make sure the rich are never taxed. That is the goal of the Trump cult, protect the rich from taxes. Enough money is in the bank account to give every man woman and child 17,000 dollars, but no, protect the rich. 

Who fixes your plane

Think it through. Many years ago Kadizzle visited a nursing home in Florida. Who do you think took care of all the old racist. Yup, it was black people. If you were a lifelong racist would you want a black person making your eggs. Maybe a little spit in your eggs would do you good.  

Yesterday Kadizzle sat beside a Mexican jet engine repairman. Guess whose jet engines he rebuilds? Yes Trump might want to think about who he is abusing. 

MAGA sexual hangup.

Blog Post Title: Why Are MAGA Folks So Obsessed With Sex?

Spend five minutes in a Facebook comment thread on any local news story, and chances are you’ll find it: a MAGA follower making some wild, obscene sexual reference. The story could be about potholes, the weather, or a bake sale, and somehow we end up talking about drag queens, genitalia, or how Joe Biden is secretly turning kids gay. It’s not just an online phenomenon either—bump into a hard-right Republican at a coffee shop or the gas station and just wait. Somehow, some way, the conversation will detour into transgender bathrooms, gay marriage, or their deep-seated fear of books in libraries that mention the existence of sex.

What gives?

Why is the MAGA wing of the Republican Party so obsessed with sex? And not just healthy, adult conversations about sex, but twisted, fearful, paranoid ideas about it. To hear them tell it, sex is lurking around every corner, waiting to corrupt their children, poison their schools, and topple the very foundations of the Republic. It’s like they see a Pride flag and immediately need therapy.

Let’s unpack this a bit.

Projection 101

First off, there’s a heavy dose of projection going on. Many MAGA loyalists accuse others—teachers, librarians, LGBTQ people—of being “obsessed with sex,” when they themselves bring it up constantly. They can’t stop talking about “groomers,” “porn in schools,” and who’s using what bathroom. If anyone else were that fixated on these topics, we’d be deeply concerned. But somehow, when it comes from the right wing, it’s “protecting the children.”

Ironically, the more they scream about it, the more it looks like they’re the ones with unresolved issues.

Moral Panic Is the Point

The truth is, this sexual hysteria is a political tool. It’s been used for decades, from Anita Bryant’s anti-gay crusades in the ’70s to the “Satanic Panic” of the ’80s. Now it’s the “trans panic” of the 2020s. It works because fear is powerful. Scaring people into thinking their children are under attack makes them easy to manipulate. Just toss out a few inflammatory buzzwords—“woke,” “drag,” “groomer,” “porn”—and boom, you’ve got a loyal voter base frothing at the mouth and ready to pull the lever for whoever promises to save them.

Sex = Control

There’s also a deep cultural undercurrent here: sex is about control. Who’s allowed to have it, who’s allowed to talk about it, and whose bodies get policed. MAGA ideology is obsessed with maintaining traditional gender roles and a very narrow version of morality. Any deviation—whether it’s a transgender person living authentically, or a school teaching comprehensive sex ed—is viewed as a threat to their entire worldview. It shakes the foundation of the good ol’ days they desperately want to return to (you know, when people knew their place and kept their secrets).

The Porn Paradox

And then there’s the irony so thick you could butter toast with it: the loudest voices screaming about pornography are often the ones secretly consuming it in record numbers. Studies have shown that some of the most conservative states have the highest porn viewership. It’s the old preacher-who-gets-caught-in-the-motel-room story, just scaled up to national politics.

Final Thought

It would be funny if it weren’t so sad—and dangerous. When MAGA folks obsessively inject sexual fear into every political conversation, they’re not just being weird or crass. They’re distracting from real issues: healthcare, climate, wages, corruption. They’re demonizing innocent people to score political points. And they’re feeding a toxic stew of ignorance and hate.

So the next time a MAGA warrior brings up genitals in a school board meeting or posts a comment about drag queens on a story about zoning laws, remember: this isn’t about protecting children. It’s about fear, power, and projection.

And frankly, it’s exhausting.