Politics of Hate category archive
Republican Family Values 0
Writing at the Las Vegas Sun, Mary McNamara suggests that Republicans should keep their grubby little propagandas off of her and others’ families. Here’s a bit:
Because honestly, you are giving parents a bad name. And what with the school shootings, the lack of subsidized child care and the current attack on reproductive rights, not to mention the fact that Christmas will arrive in stores Nov. 1, we have enough to deal with.
Know Them by the Company They Keep 0
So suggests the editorial board of the Newark Star-Ledger:
Follow the link for more.
Devolution 0
Michael in Norfolk offers a theory as to why the party of Dwight Eisenhower, Everett Dirksen, and Nelson Rockefeller turned into the party of Donald Trump, Tommy Tuberville, and Lauren Boebert.
Afterthought:
Unmentioned, but methinks just as important, is Richard Nixon’s decision to throw down the welcome mat to racists and bigots odious Southern Strategy.
Republican Thought Police 0
Nedra Rhone offers a theory as to what motivates the Republican Thought Police:
Follow the link for her reasoning.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Writing at The Charlotte Observer, Esther Alejandra Sierra, a legal immigrant working in health care, reports that the hatred and bile towards immigrants being spread by Donald Trump and J. D. Vance is spreading. Here’s a bit from her article:
Read more at: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/article292728654.html#storylink=cpy
The Chaos Agent 0
The Rude One thinks that Nikki Haley got one thing right. Here’s how he starts his article:
Follow the link for why she thinks she was right about that.
“Childless Cat Ladies” 0
At the San Francisco Chronicle, a self-proclaimed childless dog lady responds. Here’s a tiny bit from her article:
There is truth in the idea that the United States isn’t supportive of families, but the solution isn’t to ban contraceptives and abortion or defund support systems for single mothers, as Roberts and his colleagues would do. Absurdly, the right-wing approach presupposes that a policy of forced birthing is preferable to bettering the lives of the people alive now through expanded educational and work opportunities, strict gun control to end school shootings, ample and paid parental leave and subsidized childcare.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At the Portland Press-Herald, David B. Offer hears a rhyme. Here’s the first line of the couplet:
Follow the link for the rhyme.
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*Mark Twain.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
Thom points out that racial hate seems to be the only strategy that Trump and Vance have left.
He also notes that their racist tactics are–er–not unprecedented in America’s history.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
At The Colorado Sun, Mike Littwin debunks de bunk. A snippet; follow the link for context.
(snip)
Whether the apartment buildings in question — housing mostly Central American migrants — are dilapidated and run down and have been cited over the years for a long list of code violations is not up for debate. It’s true. Rep. Jason Crow, who represents Aurora in Congress, called the conditions “squalid” in a tweet while saying the gang issues are “grossly exaggerated.”
And also not up for debate is whether Aurora is a war zone or a migrant wasteland. That’s simply false.
Aside:
Methinks the reason Republicans lie so much about so many things is that truth is not on their side.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Farron comments on J. D. Vance’s doubling down on his racist lies about Haitian immigrants..
PoliticalProf adds an observation.
As I have noted before, Richard Nixon’s southern strategy has come full circle and consumed the Republican Party.
It is now the party of the New Secesh.
Know Them by the Company They Keep 0
Along those lines, AL.com’s John Archibald points out that today’s self-styled “conservaatives” are keeping somewhat questionable company.
Mongers of Fear 0
Speaking of that platform of fomenting fear . . . .
Dynastic Desires 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Kim Shinkoskey makes a compelling case that Donald Trump does not aspire to be president.
Rather, he aspires to be king. And that’s one reason why he’s running on a platform of fomenting fear.
A snippet:
The foreign threat comes from brown-skinned folks who want to experience life in America. The king hates these largely innocent people because they may not be open to supporting his kingship. On the other hand, he is happily willing to become besties with all the dictators of Europe and Asia and allow them full and complete access to his court. He allows them to cross our borders clandestinely at first in order to influence our elections, and then openly later, in order to influence our economic and political policies. Why does he love them so much? Because they are autocrats like him.
The domestic threat comes from the middle class and the working poor, who want economic mobility and human rights. Highly contemptible what these ignorant commoners want. Don’t they know they aren’t smart enough to have rights? Many of them are Democrats who want rights for women and minorities, the ones clearly least deserving of rights in God’s kingdom.