3.4 David O. McKay and the confrontation with communism

‘Tis the season for a show about politics!  Join us as we look at political polarization in the 50s and 60s and trace its effects all the way forward to 2020.

David O. McKay and the Rise of Modern Mormonism, by Gregory A Prince and WM Robert Wright

https://www.amazon.com/David-McKay-Rise-Modern-Mormonism/dp/0874808227

The Law of Consecration

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_consecration

The United Order

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Order#cite_note-Clark04-1942-26

Diogenes was searching for an honest man (and may have been earth’s first green lantern):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes

https://twitter.com/jdp_writes/status/1321901575535812609

Fearreantum

https://irreantum.associationmormonletters.org/17-1-top/

This Scary Statistic Predicts Growing US Political Violence — Whatever Happens On Election Day, by Peter Aldhous

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/political-violence-inequality-us-election

Whoops, the quote attributed to Jimmy Carter about if you don’t want your tax dollars to help the poor then you don’t want a country based on Christian values, was actually said by comedian  John Fugelsang!

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jimmy-carter-helping-poor/

Arthur Watkins’s memoir is called “Enough rope: The inside story of the censure of Senator Joe McCarthy by his colleagues, the controversial hearings that signaled the end of a turbulent and a fearsome era in American public life”

Folding Ideas: In Search Of A Flat Earth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTfhYyTuT44

QAnon Is a New American Religion, by Caroline Mimbs Nyce

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2020/05/qanon-q-pro-trump-conspiracy/611722/

Newt Gingrich Says You're Welcome, by McKay Coppins

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/newt-gingrich-says-youre-welcome/570832

And just for fun, a J. Golden Kimball quote on politics:

https://twitter.com/thmazing/status/1320982721225584640