Balladeer’s Blog continues its examination of the many facets of Fool Killer lore.
FOR PART ONE, INCLUDING THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT, CLICK HERE
PART TWENTY-FIVE: The 1918 one-shot publication called The Fool Killer was written by Dr Klarenc Wade Mak, poet, author and socialist political candidate for mayoral office in Kansas City, MO around 1918. Mak had also written Ekkoes (sic) from the Hart (sic) and Mental Dinamite (sic).
Mak’s 1918 work is sometimes confused with James Larkin Pearson’s 1910-1917 and 1919-1929 publication called The Fool-Killer. Both Mak and Pearson wrote poetry, both published works using the Fool Killer name and both were open about their sympathy with socialist politics of the time period.
Per the surviving correspondence of Eugene V Debs, Dr Mak once invited Debs to speak in Kansas City, MO at an event where Mak and other socialist candidates would be appearing.
Despite the “socialist” label, Klarenc Mak’s Fool Killer had that quality I have appreciated about nearly all the Fool Killer items I’ve come across: Attitudes which would outrage BOTH the political left AND right here in the 21st Century. Even the socialist label as Mak’s writings define it refers to workers, NOT “people who want something for nothing” as he calls them. (He also calls them parasites.) So even that brand of “socialism” would offend both right-wingers and left-wingers of today. For different reasons, of course.
Mak’s Fool Killer expressed disapproval of capitalism AND disapproval of abortion, so again we see that both the Left and the Right of today would be hard pressed to force a quick and easy label on this Fool Killer. Pretty refreshing!
Before returning to Pearson’s monthly publication I wanted to post some examples of Mak’s incarnation of the Fool Killer expressing sentiments tweaking both ends of the political spectrum by today’s standards:
“When a man has lived long enough to have tried all the bad things in this world he generally wants to hang on a little longer just to see if the Republicans and Democrats won’t invent some NEW evils.”
“The highest part of an education is finding out how much of it isn’t so.” (In the distant past this would have applied to right-wing domination of the educational system, but for decades now it has applied to left-wing domination of the educational system.)
“Wrong ideas are not an education, they are mental weeds, the base materials that prejudice is made out of.”
“If your religion can’t stand being criticized it is in the same class with the gold ring that’s afraid of acids. Such a ring is not gold at all – only a base pretender; and the same with the religion that can’t stand the acid test of criticism – it’s just as spurious and should be rejected.” (Left-wing zealots try to censor all criticism of Islam, right-wing zealots try to censor all criticism of Christianity and Judaism. At present, however, the left-wing book-burners have the help of the Silicon Valley Robber Barons/ Techno Fascists to help them in their censorship jihad.)
“The misdeeds of Democrats are about as plentiful as the drops of water in all the oceans, while the crimes of Republicans are as numerous as the seconds in Eternity.” Continue reading
Harrison Floyd (like me, a Trump supporter) is another Martin Luther King Person of Courage defying Democrats and the way they think they can order black people how to think and what political opinions to hold. I don’t agree with everything Floyd says but I don’t agree with everything said by people who happen to be white, either. So what? Deal with it, Democrat fascists. 
Journalist and strong female role model Kelli Ballard courageously continues to compile as comprehensive as possible a breakdown of the additional crimes committed by people in the country illegally. 
Time for another Faculty Lounge Fascist Roundup. In America “educators” (LMAO) have become known as secular clergy for the Democrats, forcing narrow-minded political conformity and fascist political tactics on their students. 
*** SPEECH FIRST – The courageous activists at SPEECH FIRST are suing oppressive fascists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign over FOUR anti-speech policies. CLICK 
ROBERT DENIRO YELLS AT CLOUD – This one isn’t a political cartoon, it’s just a reminder that the increasingly senile Robert Deniro – better known as “Robert the Zero” – dementedly thinks it means something that he found assorted EX-prosecutors who hate President Trump as much as he does. That’s adorable!
De facto Third Party President Donald Trump, still standing and smiling despite the ugly attempts to bring him down by the career criminals called Democrats and Republicans, marked LGBT Pride Month. It was a nice reminder that Trump – since he’s NOT a real Republican – has attracted high levels of support from LGBT voters as well as voters of color for an (R). This is why Republican trash like the Bush Family, Mitt Romney, Justin Amash and the clueless white guys at National Review hate Trump. 
(WE NEED THIRD PARTIES.) I don’t trust the polls, especially after how wrong they were in 2016 and most recently in Australia’s elections, but America’s Democrats eat, sleep and breathe nothing but polls so it is HILARIOUS that those polls are showing Trump at two-year highs for approval rating, also showing Trump ABOVE OBAMA IN ESTIMATION OF HIS PRESIDENTIAL CONDUCT (Now THAT’s gotta hurt delusional Obama worshippers) AND showing Trump higher than Obama’s presidency in terms of “Caring about the issues that impact my life.” 
BY THE WAY, ANTI-TRUMP FASCISTS – There are lessons to be learned regarding Trump supporters and growing acceptance of public LGBT issues. Just as many people have LGBT folks in their family or circle of friends and THAT made them come to resent openly-expressed hostility toward those family members or friends, so too do many people have Trump supporters in their family or circle of friends and THAT has made them come to resent openly-expressed hostility toward Trump and his supporters from the pretentious asses of the American Left. 
Speaking for myself, too, even if I didn’t support Trump I would have grown to despise the non-stop hostility toward his supporters from Democrat fascists, politically biased “educators” (LMAO), brain-dead professional athletes and shallow, uninformed, emotionally unstable entertainers. 
THE MUELLER REPORT DID NOT DO ANYTHING TO CLEAR ROBERT MUELLER OF ANY POTENTIAL FUTURE KIDDIE PORNOGRAPHY CHARGES. I WILL ANSWER NO QUESTIONS. THIS IS MY LAST STATEMENT ABOUT THE COWARDLY “MURKY” MUELLER, ONE OF AMERICA’S MOST NOTORIOUSLY CORRUPT PROSECUTORS. 
WE NEED THIRD PARTIES is my frequent refrain here at Balladeer’s Blog. In the meantime we DO get to have de facto Third Party President Donald Trump shaking up the career criminals called Democrats and Republicans. America’s career politicians will never forgive President Trump for saving the economy and for looking out for the working class and the poor OF ALL COLORS. 
Here are links to some great pieces written about these topics: 
President Trump stands virtually alone – the outsider shaking up all the career criminals called Democrats and Republicans, who grow ever more frantic and irrational in their attempts to bring him down. EVERY DAY IS FUN WATCHING TRUMP INFURIATE ALL THE RIGHT CROOKS TO INFURIATE!
The late Mary Harris Jones aka Mother Jones once again weighed in despite having been dead since 1930: “President Trump is an undeniable hero helping the working class and the poor of ALL colors every way he can while being attacked daily by America’s corrupt politicians and the bloated rich pigs who OWN those politicians.” 
