The Ukrainian Homestead in Carbon County holds a festival every summer. The County Democrats are invited to set up a booth at the Festival, although in past years we did not get much support from festival-goers. Like the Cubans and Vietnamese, many Ukrainians had a Communist country and associated the Democrats with “socialism,” thanks to Republican propaganda.
It was different this year. We exhibited two posters. One quoted a speech by Biden praising Ukraine for standing up for democracy and pledging help. The other poster featured three quotes; one from Marjorie Taylor Greene saying that the U.S. should not spend any more money on Ukraine: one from Tucker Carlson stating that he backed Russia; and one from Trump praising Putin.
We also had a large Ukrainian flag and blue and gold wrist bands which we sold to raise money for Ukrainian relief. People stopped by the booth, read the posters, and thanked us.
The Republican booth featured signs for local candidates. Nothing about support for Ukraine.
We’ll be back at it tomorrow.
No conspiracy theorist, I. But I find it very strange how quickly the Republicans turned against Ukraine. I can only think of two reasons for that: one, continued support for Ukraine brings out their intrinsic isolationist characteristics. Two, the party is *that* compromised by the Russians. And there goes my conspiracy theorist side.
ReplyDeleteI really think it is the first reason, but I have heard others express the second theory. But remember Occam's Razor.
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