O Columbia! the gem of the ocean,
The home of the brave and the free,
The shrine of each patriot's devotion,
A world offers homage to thee.
A world offers homage to thee.
Thy mandates make heroes assemble,
When Liberty's form stands in view.
When Liberty's form stands in view.
Thy banners make tyranny tremble,
When borne by the red, white, and blue.
When borne by the red, white, and blue.
— Thomas á Becket
Across the nation, a new American hero is emerging: the Supermom.
Uninformed and dogmatic, she is as great a threat to democracy as any Proud Boy.
Perhaps greater.
She is, after all, your mom.
The extreme right is enlisting Supermoms to oversee elections and run for local offices.
Supermoms have their own PAC, Moms for Liberty, too; and have been singled out by Trump operatives for cultivation.
The Supermoms' goal is to turn back the clock 180 eighty years to the time "Columbia the Gem of the Ocean" was penned.
Back then, God was in his heaven and all was right with the world.
Columbia was indeed the gem of the ocean, which meant you needn't worry about porn or pervs or gang violence or uppity Blacks, Jews, Latinos, Asians, Muslims, Queers, and Feminists.
Of course, the tyrants in their sights are all Democrats—most especially those of color.
In the past few months, Supermoms in Arizona, Colorado, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania have organized state-wide door-knocking campaigns to uncover phantom voters; launched forensic audits of the 2020 election results; and lobbied state lawmakers to scrap all voting machines, so they can count the votes in future elections.
The Luftschutz was an all-volunteer civil defense league founded by Hermann Göring in 1933. At its peak, more than 22 million Germans belonged, many of them women.
In the past few months, Supermoms in Arizona, Colorado, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania have organized state-wide door-knocking campaigns to uncover phantom voters; launched forensic audits of the 2020 election results; and lobbied state lawmakers to scrap all voting machines, so they can count the votes in future elections.
And just this week, Supermoms on a Tennessee school board banned Maus because it's "vulgar," while Supermoms on school boards in Nebraska, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Wyoming banned hundreds of books authored by Blacks.
In more ways than one, fiery Supermoms compose America's 21st century Luftschutz.
Organized by local air raid wardens, the Luftschutz trained its members to place sandbags, fight fires, clear rubble, and respond with first aid in the event of aerial bombings and gas attacks. The wardens claimed the Luftschutz's purpose was Selbschutz (self- protection).
The darker purpose of the Luftschutz, however, was to recruit average German citizens into the Nazi party, which was a minority party in 1933. Göring understood that if you just let moms wear cool hats and attend gatherings, you could count on their silence when the time came for the Final Solution.
Supermoms may consider themselves simply "concerned" soccer moms protecting their precious children, but they're in the grip of fascists.
That makes them wholly to be feared.
Above: Frau im Luftschutz! Nazi poster by Ludwig Hohlwein. 1936.
