I’ve read just a couple of these stories — I wonder if there are more cases that don’t make the news — but so far, the apostates to the right have all been women.
"after taking office and examining hundreds of pages of curriculum, Gore was shocked by what she found — and didn’t find.
The pervasive indoctrination she had railed against simply did not exist."
www.texastribune.org/2024/05/15/t...
What I keep coming away with is: they didn't bother doing any research before buying into the scare.
I'll give her credit for realizing it wasn't real, but I'll point out she's still a Republican.
But they did. They listened to the news and information sources they trusted, just like you and I do. This woman had the very rare experience of then getting first hand knowledge that showed her she had been lied to.
The article says she was "the co-host of a far-right online talk show". I get that she was just buying into the scare tactics she'd ingested from other right wing media, but as she was also in a position to widely *spread* the (m/d)isinformation, I would hope she'd already look into things more.
Definitely credit for doing a 180 (well, ~120 :) ) when she did look into the claims, but her experiences since then seem to highlight how unwilling others are to do the same.
I think the point was that all of the things she researched are freely available to the public already.
She just chose not to access them until after she was elected.
