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🧠The Three Stooges and the Great Payson Experiment
When small-town politics meets the Trump playbook — what could possibly go wrong?
The Three Stooges and the Great Payson Experiment
Somewhere between a MAGA rally and a bad rerun of The Three Stooges, three local Tea Party heroes — Steve Otto, Charlie Bell, and Jim Ferris — hatched a plan. They watched Donald Trump lie, cheat, and gaslight his way to power and thought, “Why can’t we do that right here in Payson?”
Their target wasn’t Washington. It was our quiet little town — the perfect testing ground for political theater, where primaries draw fewer voters than a church bake sale. The Stooges realized that if you can get ten angry people in a community-center meeting to chant “deep state,” you can run the place.
And so, they did what all great con men do: they invented enemies. The “deep state” became the library. Fiscal prudence became starving the schools. Building a new pool for kids? Clearly Marxism with lifeguards.
To the MAGA faithful, it all sounded heroic — a crusade to “save” Payson from, well… reading, learning, and swimming. It worked. The gullible cheered, the reasonable stayed home, and the Stooges took their seats.
Then the wrecking began. The library? Targeted. Schools? Starved. The pool? “Unnecessary.” Their newest trick? Handing over all council power to the city manager — the one they chose. That’s right: democracy outsourced to a yes-man.
The professionals who once kept Town Hall running have packed up and left. What remains is a government run like a back-alley poker game — only without the cards or the brains.
So good luck, Payson. The great MAGA experiment rolls on. It’s the same Trump show — just with cheaper microphones and fewer indictments.
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