Politics of Hate category archive
Malice in Blunderland 0
Martin Schramm argues, that, like Alice, we have fallen through a mirror into an alternate universe where everything is upside down and backwards. Here’s a tiny bit of his article:
Look at what has gone so wrong and seems so backward in the Republican Party founded by Abe and forged by Ike (who saved Europe from being conquered by Hitler) and Ron (who gloriously praised the Greatest Generation that made the world safe for democracy).
But we’ve just seen and heard the new standard bearer-apparent of the Republican Party – Donald Trump – lavishing praise on Europe’s only democracy-snuffing, free-speech-stifling, dictatorial autocrat: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. And we’ve heard all about his love of all sorts of dictators – and even praise of Adolf Hitler.
The Tactics of the Trumpling 0
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Gene Collier looks at the tactics of Donald Trump and the Trumpettes and concludes
Follow the link to learn how he reached that conclusion.
Republican Thought Police 0
At AL.com, Williesha Morris catalogs the crazy. A snippet:
One library in north Alabama even flagged a book for removal because the author’s last name is Gay.
Read the rest.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Thom debunks the Muskrat lies.
Aside:
Remember, Elon Musk is an immigrant to America.
Perhaps that is ipso facto evidence that we need to erect higher barriers to entr–oh, never mind.
Establishmentarians 0
Peter Montgomery reports on efforts by right-wing they-call-themselves Christians to keep the spotlight off their efforts to piggy-back on Donald Trump and turn the United States into a theocracy. Here’s a tiny bit:
Much, much more at the link.
Know Them by the Company They Keep 0
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini points out that Arizona Congresscritter Andy Biggs keeps some pretty sketchy company.
Willful Blindness and the Republican Thought Police 0
At the Bangor Daily News, Solomon D. Stevens argues forcefully that we should not blind ourselves to our country’s faults, as the Republican Thought Police would have us do. I cannot say that I agree with everything he says, but I do think his piece is worth the few minutes it will take to read it. Here’s a snippet, one which I think we are seeing being validated in real time:
One Thing Is Not Like the Other Thing 0
Robert Reich takes exception to a comment by noted fifth columnist Tucker Carlson:
Well, I’m sorry, Tucker. You’re wrong.
Real leadership is the opposite of thuggery.
Follow the link for the evidence.
Dis Coarse Discourse 0
The Swift Vote Conspiracy 0
Sam and his crew find themselves dismayed by the delusional dimensions of this dis coarse discourse.
American Establishmentarism 0
Thom talks with Tim Alberta about how the confluence of bad history and bad theology are feeding American establishmentarianism.
This is well worth the few minutes it will take to listen to it.
The Invading Horde 0
But the folks in Eagle Pass, Texas, say the invaders are not who you might think they are. Here’s a tiny bit from the story:
(snip)
While local residents with the Eagle Pass Border Coalition told reporters and supporters that they of course welcome all visitors to the community who respect their culture and diversity in a civil manner, they believe the recent arrival of Republican governors and a trucker convoy of Christian nationalists in support of Abbott’s violent rhetoric helped to spread “hate and descension” in their community over the weekend.
” One says, ‘Taylor Swift fans are a cult.”” />Flooding the Disinformation Superhighway 0
At the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Gene Collier suggests that the liars are winning, benefiting from the “liar’s dividend.” What is the “liar’s dividend”? In his article, he defines it (emphasis added):
Methinks he has a point. Read the full piece and decide.
