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)
True democracy insures voting rights for all. No gerrymandering. Winning elections by ideas, not rigging the system to block voting and gerrymandering wackos in like @Jim_Jordan@DrPaulGosar etc. The so called “moderate Republicans” are no better if they oppose voting rights (4)
Don’t be fooled. No one in the GOP can be trusted to protect American democracy. There aren’t “10 senate GOPers” willing to see government work. We must vote to rid American democracy from these insurrection supporters.
We cannot depend on moderate Republicans to protect American democracy for Black/Brown/Latino/Asian/Native Americans. End.
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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 .
The Friday revelation that House Intel ranking member @DevinNunes was in a conspiracy with an indicted Russian felon to MANUFACTURE dirt on Joe Biden indicates the support for @realDonaldTrump is not based on loyalty to Trump, fear of primary or ideology. (1)
It is clear @DevinNunes is corrupted. Her has adopted the Russian narrative. His loyalty is to @KremlinRussia_E, not Trump. Similarly @senatemajldr receiving $3.4 million and an Aluminum Plant in KY in exchange for relieving sanctions on Oleg Deripaska demonstrates compromise (2)
Three factors that will determine this election; 1. Voter suppression. There must be far more emphasis and money dedicated to fight for voting rights this cycle. #VoteBlue
2. Turnout. Directly affected by 1. Anything that depresses turnout including massive changes in healthcare, jobs status, immigration will energize the right wing, and/or suppress the moderate groups needed in swing states. #VoteBlue
3. Convincing white voters on the right AND the left that their economic status, healthcare, and national security are more important to their lives than their perceived privileged status for being white. That’s the vein Trump taps (con’d)
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)