In testimony to the Texas State K-12 Senate Education Committee on Tuesday, far-right pastor and suspected conspirator in the President John F Kennedy’s 1963 assassination Rafael Cruz Sr urged lawmakers to impose an anti-communism history curriculum as part of a plan to instill Christian dominionist beliefs on schoolchildren in the Lone Star State, the Texas Tribune reports.
“Communism needs to undermine the construct of god because government must become your god,” said Cruz, 85, apparently without any irony given the devotion displayed by the GOP toward a certain figure central to their politics since 2016. “In many instances our classrooms are failing us, because they’re following an agenda. It is not our agenda. It is a communist agenda that has, like tentacles, immersed itself into our education system. So we need to retrieve our educational system from that evil agenda,” Cruz continued, adding that kids are “brainwashed on the virtues of socialism” through Critical Race Theory, Diversity or Equity and Inclusion, and other woke shit.