They're showing us their drafts

Christian Nationalists in Oklahoma are showing us their end goals, we have to start believing what they tell us.

Many may not be able to offer a full worded definition of what Christian Nationalism is, but Oklahomans can sure describe how it feels. Remember that scene in the OG Star Wars, where Princess Leia, Luke Skywalker, and Han Solo are in the Death Star trash compactor? You know, the one with the weird red lights and tall barricades squeezing the pile of trash higher and higher, making the situation all but impossible to ignore? That’s Oklahoma. The walls have moved close enough that we are all becoming more intimate with an ever growing pile of waste.

After Governor Stitt’s announcement about “Classrooms to Careers” last week, it’s getting more obvious the trash is rising. Governor Stitt’s office quickly rolled back the language surrounding this initiative, stating that it was merely an idea and not a set in stone policy. But friends, writing things down takes effort.

The idea that “these things aren’t that big of a deal” because they aren’t being implemented (yet), is something we need to quit giving a pass. When the new OSDE Social Studies curriculum was leaked, it had detailed instruction involved in exactly how students were to learn biblical scripture. The final version, has less. This will inevitably be used as a counterpoint to any arguments, citing it as a “compromise”, but please understand someone wrote the leaked version. It exists because someone thought of it and wrote it down. It is a destination, and the number of stops along the way doesn’t matter as long as it is reached.

Oklahoma’s policy is not a journaling exercise for our leaders to express their innermost goals for power, authority, and manipulation and then pull those expectations back as a result of public outcry, only to be implemented later when the world is better “prepped” for such things. They are showing us their rough drafts, and we need to believe them.

That trash you see rising, it’s always been here… we can fold in while rising with the heap, or work together to jam the compactor.