Alabama. Ohio. Kentucky. Georgia. Assaults on women’s rights by the GOP. “Christian” Sharia law. Assaults on Black and Brown immigrants. GOP Apartheid. Assaults on the working class, farmers, and the poor. GOP oligarchy. Attacks on the free press. GOP authoritarian fascism. (1)
How did we get here? The #PowellMemorandum in 1973 provided the blueprint. But the seeds are from the 60s. President Lyndon Johnson broke it down to the basic formula. (2)
You wonder why the majority of white women vote GOP despite the assault on women’s rights? You wonder why the majority of white women voted for a proven serial sexual predator and alleged rapist Trump? White preference is more important to them than women’s rights. (3)
You wonder why supposedly pro life white evangelicals turn a blind eye to crimes against immigrant children at the southern border? White preference is more important to white evangelicals than the lives of immigrant Brown and Black children. (4)
You wonder why white farmers and “working class whites” continue to vote GOP despite insane tariffs killing farms and closing factories? White preference is more important than their economic livelihood. (5)
You wonder why the so-called “mainstream media” continue to treat the GOP and Trump like they’re honest actors despite murders of journalists and screams of “fake news”? White preference and “access” is more important to some in the press than truth. (6)
You wonder why Muslims are STILL BANNED from 7 countries, while white supremacist domestic terrorists are supported, encouraged, and revered by Trump and the GOP? The GOP pushes the politics of white preference. White supremacists are the GOP base. (7)
The GOP, conservatism, has ALWAYS been a flawed unworkable ideology. The ONY way they maintain power is by blocking voter access, control the narrative by propaganda networks Fox, Sinclair, and gerrymandering voter intimidation. Any vote for the GOP threatens American democracy
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Voting could end this slide toward authoritarian fascism, and unjust verdicts.
Sad truth is that despite the infrastructure bills, healthcare, COVID19 vaccines and generally good legislation to help the American people, the House is projected to go red. Why? (1)
In Virginia, with a good economy, rapid response to COVID19, and multiple new businesses under Democratic leadership, it still turned red. Why? (2)
Then there’s noted Democratic strategist complaining about “woke” culture. Why?
INSURRECTION by white Supremacist domestic terrorists 1/6 led by the GOP. And STILL, the House is projected to flip red. Why? (3)
I’m convinced the problem at @TheJusticeDept is Merrick Garland. For all the accolades he’s received about being an “institutionalist” restoring the DOJ, it is those qualities that make him woefully inadequate to face the Trump GQP white supremacist fascist threat we face now.
The only people who should have been considered for @TheJusticeDept AG are @SallyQYates@glennkirschner2 or @PreetBharara. We need someone in charge unencumbered by DOJ “norms” or fearful of indicting prominent politicians for crimes committed. @SDNYnews has been neutered. (2)
If Trump, Gosar, or Brooks were regular citizens, they would have been indicted by now. Yet they’re out planning another terrorist insurrection on the #BigLie. And they’re giving fuel to GOP legislators to attack democracy through voter suppression. Where is @TheJusticeDept? (3)
Stating the obvious:
After listening to @RepLizCheney’s refusal to tie the Trump insurrection to voter suppression laws a fundamental truth emerges. White people favor control over democracy in the GOP, and a way too uncomfortable amount of white democrats. (1)
The objection over the voting rights act, police reform across the board in the GOP reinforces the obvious fact that the current gop has never been interested in democracy. @RepLizCheney holding herself out as a defender of democracy is a farce. (2)
Don’t be fooled. If people like @RepLizCheney@MittRomney@AdamKinzinger@lisamurkowski et al don’t support the voting rights act, police reform, then all their so called “righteous opposition” to Trumpism is fraudulent. They still oppose true American Democracy. (3)
Got news for you @kurtbardella@JoeNBC. This trend in racial hatred has ALWAYS been the base of the @GOP. In the 60s the John Birch Society was spouting the SAME racist BS; the conservatives REJECTED them. Now since Nixon, @newtgingrich and @foxnews the GOP welcomed bigots (1)
Today, the @GOP is white grievance and bigotry. The ENTIRE PHILOSOPHY of the GOP is based on policies DENYING Black/Brown/Asian/Native Americans the rights to be equal participants in the American society. (2)
Hidden secret: The MAJORITY of white people VOTE based on the philosophy of “racial superiority” to the detriment of their OWN financial, or medical situation. As long as they can deny “the others” equal rights and opportunity, they’re happy. And continue to vote @GOP (3)
Horrifying thought. The provocation by Israeli citizens to force Palestinians from their homes was calculated to produce conflict. Why? To bolster criminal bigot @netanyahu’s quest to stay in power. Netanyahu RW thugs attack Palestinians to provoke hostilities. Chaos follows. (1)
Prior to the hostilities a coalition of groups including Arabs and liberal Jewish interests were uniting to oust Netanyahu. He would then face criminal justice. So Netanyahu sends right wing thugs to “evict” Palestinians from their homes. Knowing Hamas would take the bait. (2)
Hamas, backed by Iran, is the perfect bogeyman. Terrorists who use the plight of the Palestinians to advance their interests. Meanwhile innocent Palestinians die. The vast majority of Palestinians want to live in peace. (3)
I’m old enough to remember when folks like @TheJusticeDept AG Barr, and @SenAlexander we’re described by various “pundits” “insiders” and “serious political analysts” as “institutionalists” and that @SDNYnews was “independent”.
The old norms NO LONGER APPLY. #FridayNightMassacre
ANY TIME you hear ANY TALKING HEAD on tv or radio describe anyone as an institutionalist, turn the tv channel. They are applying old criteria to the current band of fascists. The #FridayNightMassacre is every bit as alarming as “The Night of the Long Knives” or the Reichstag Fire
Think it can’t happen here? Read about the Weimar Republic. Ask yourself why Stephen Miller suggested transporting caged immigrants by boxcar. Review how complicit politicians of the day like @senatemajldr today allowed a madman to have unchecking power. Follow @AuschwitzMuseum .