Politics of Hate category archive
A Report from the Front 0
Eric Chastain, a retired army veteran, writes of what it’s like to live in under military occupation–in this case, in Washinton, D. C. He is not sanguine. Here’s a tiny bit of his article.
That should alarm us all.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Michael in Norfolk hears a rhyme. Here’s a couplet:
Trumped Up Charges 0
Farron discusses how Jeanine Piro keeps trying to throw the book at persons for minor offenses, and how (and why) she keeps missing her targets.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Michael in Norfolk decodes de code. A snippet:
America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the myth of racial superiority fabricated to justify it continue to take their toll.
The Rule of Lawless 0
Yastreblyansky reports that a lot of people seem to be resigning themselves from it.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Via Above the Law, Techdirt hears something that sounds a lot like “McCarthyism.”
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*Mark Twain.
Occupying Army 0
Thom sees an ominous precedent for the Trump maladministration’s push for military occupation of American cities. (Warning: Short commercial at about the 1:30 mark.)
The Archtype 0
Jonathan Alter offers an alternative angle:
Alter may be onto something. Hitler and Mussolini had ideologies. Warped and cruel ideologies, but ideologies non the less.
Avarice, vengefulness, and racism do not in and of themselves constitute an ideology.
But it’s difference without a distinction to his victims.
Follow the link and see what you think of his reasoning.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Another tale of mean for the sake of mean.
The Rule of Lawless 0
It seems that D. C. grand juries aren’t buying the–er–Trumped up charges against the sandwich slinger.
(Syntax error fixed.)
The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy 0
For years, the right-wing has been telling us that the federal government can’t be trusted.
And they’ve given us one.
Establishmentarians 0
Mrs. Betty Bowers discusses how the Trump maladministration is trying to proselytize the U. S. Armed Forces and how we can help in the resistance.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Afterthought:
If George Wallace were to come back from the dead, he would welcomed with open arms by today’s Republican Party.
