It Didn't Happen Here

The security apparatus will always relentlessly defend that they helped my parents promote racism, white supremacy, genocide, sexism, and homophobia and punished me for not embracing their horrific views and practices.  One of their idiotic attempts at justification is that supposedly only bigots help others.  It's not remotely true and doesn't make a bit of sense, but they always assert that my parents paying 10% of their incomes and following an obvious con man and sexual predator in order to be assigned supposed friends with whom to do a lot of makework nonsense was and is a great thing.  The reality is that my parents always chose to live in the middle of nowhere and barely had neighbors let alone any semblance of a neighborhood so they were really just electing to associate with people with similar exclusionary beliefs that were appropriately rejected by at least 99.7% of the their community.  I guess I can kind of understand why they engaged in such nonsense when they were fresh off the boat from Provo, but it takes a special kind of bigotry and stupidity to persist in such antisocial behavior for decades.

Even worse is that conservative religious types such as my parents don't have any sense of actual community and the common good.  My parents chose to commute hours and hours to work each day so that they could live in a bigger house in a county with approximately 200,000 residents and absolutely no public transportation.  Thanks for the global warming!  And tens of millions of women in places like Utah and Idaho can't access basic health care because of the actions of people like my parents.  Talk about horrific mistreatment of young women!  The LDS church at one time even tried to maintain their own separate "church welfare" system because the geriatric archconservative patriarchy running the church thought that the New Deal was creeping socialism.  As a result, the actual state welfare system in Utah is so anemic that nonmembers with legitimate need are sometimes advised by state employees to get baptized in the LDS church to try to get assistance that way.  Of course, the church's welfare system, like its supposed "educational system" or pastoral counseling, is at best profoundly amateurish, relying on well-intentioned but untrained and unqualified volunteers with little oversight or transparency.

Instead of trying to convert infinitely more sophisticated and better educated Scandinavians by peddling a thoroughly racist hate text that justifies genocide of indigenous peoples, dopes like Brent LaMar Top (geez, he even has a stereotypical Utah/Idaho name) should have actually tried to learn that people who truly care about others pay taxes to provide a comprehensive social safety net available to everyone that includes quality public education, national health care, readily available public transportation, and appropriate assistance to those with needs both at home and abroad.  Perhaps people in the US would then enjoy the same quality of life as those in Denmark and Sweden.