KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — The eldest son of one of America’s most infamous seditionists is building a new life since breaking free from his father’s control — juggling work, college classes and volunteer firefighting.
And Dakota Adams has tossed one more ball in the air this year: a Democratic campaign for Montana’s Legislature.
He also plans to sell the rifles, body armor and tactical gear he used to wear to anti-government protests alongside his father — Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers. It’s all part of an effort to push away the last vestiges of what Adams describes as an isolating and abusive upbringing that nearly ruined him, his mother and his siblings.
“I decided that I’m going to double down on betting on the electoral process,” Adams said in a recent interview.
Realizing you’ve been raised in what is basically a cult is one hell of a trip. Hopefully the process of questioning everything he was told leads this guy to answers that bring him peace.
When Jim Jones took his cult out of the country, he knew the kids would cause issues at the border.
So everyone abandoned their kids in rural southern Indiana and they ended up in the foster system.
Like, better than if they went with the cult, but crazy that all those people are still just out there walking around.
People don’t often think of this kind of aftermath
Fuckin a. (In the Peter Gibbons sense of the phrase)