Re:You Can't Refuse to Be Scanned by ICE's Facial Recognitio...
by jonway on Sunday November 02, 2025 @04:07AM
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If I'm understanding correctly, I think you have this a bit backwards.
The 1990's "right wing milieu" I was referring to were vehemently opposed to national ID laws. I don't see a lot of corpo lobbying in that older pre-NeoCon subgroup of what we just call "the right" and a deep delve would be pretty off topic I'd say, but we definitely see threads carrying forward from the post-9/11 era when civil unions/gay rights, reproductive health access, and a growing fear of immigration (See: South Park's Darryl Weathers "Dey turk `er jerbs!") and the corpo-lobbyist, as it were, got their start (it seems) during W Bush's 2nd term. The gay and abortion stuff proved effective for their base then. To bring it back to evangelicals, just consider Candice Owens (Not a politician, but is the continuation of the Rush Limbaugh/AM radio scene) who is out there talking about speaking to Charlie Kirk's ghost in a dream. She converted to Catholicism in '24, but previously self-identified as evangelical.
So I would say that no, the same corpo political operatives aren't behind this. The truth is likely far more interesting.
The 1990's "right wing milieu" I was referring to were vehemently opposed to national ID laws. I don't see a lot of corpo lobbying in that older pre-NeoCon subgroup of what we just call "the right" and a deep delve would be pretty off topic I'd say, but we definitely see threads carrying forward from the post-9/11 era when civil unions/gay rights, reproductive health access, and a growing fear of immigration (See: South Park's Darryl Weathers "Dey turk `er jerbs!") and the corpo-lobbyist, as it were, got their start (it seems) during W Bush's 2nd term. The gay and abortion stuff proved effective for their base then. To bring it back to evangelicals, just consider Candice Owens (Not a politician, but is the continuation of the Rush Limbaugh/AM radio scene) who is out there talking about speaking to Charlie Kirk's ghost in a dream. She converted to Catholicism in '24, but previously self-identified as evangelical.
So I would say that no, the same corpo political operatives aren't behind this. The truth is likely far more interesting.