New Election Cycle, Same Tired Refrain

Apparently desperate times call for desperate measures.

Montana Supreme Court candidate James Brown (not the King of Soul) has recently started warning us that President Biden is coming for our jobs and our guns.

It’s a tired refrain.

Someone has been coming for my guns as long as I can remember, and I still have them. I’m tired of waiting. I don’t think anyone is actually coming.

But for all the redneck gun owners out there who have little grasp of history or who haven’t been paying attention, such scare tactics still work.

The jobs claim is even more preposterous in a time when businesses can’t find enough workers to keep their doors open.

On the other hand, that old dude working the drive-thru at McDonalds does look a bit like Biden.

The Republicans would like me to believe that the biggest concern about guns is that they’ll be taken from me. Never mind the weekly school shootings in this country. The GOP certainly wouldn’t want to infringe on a deranged teenager’s right to shoot up a bunch of his classmates with an assault-style weapon.

So instead of tackling an actual problem they’ve made one up that they can claim credit for solving.

Thank the Republicans.

No one took your guns.

Or in this instance thank James Brown (Again, not the King of Soul) for stopping the president from doing something he was never going to do.

I’m not sure what jobs Biden is supposed to be taking, but a firearms confiscation program would create plenty. With nearly every yahoo in this country the proud owner of an AR-15-style rifle, I suspect trying to collect them would create an endless supply of job openings.

And folks think working the drive-thru at McDonalds is tough. We’d be begging Biden to take that job.

Every political campaign spews a certain amount of malarkey. No one is coming for either our jobs or our guns.

Scare me with something else. Tell me they are going to sell my public lands, make it more difficult to vote, and return this country to the good old days when women and people of color knew their place.

That what scares me. I just wish it was as unlikely as James Brown’s tired, old refrain. Too bad it’s not.

Parker Heinlein is at [email protected]