Family values is simply a license to hate. Putin knows this. Back in the day, the right-wing movement was saturated with racism, blacks being the faggots, with a Bible thumping pastor finding Biblical references to justify the terrorism.
Politics Articles
The 1619 Project isn’t a doom and gloom tale. It is a history of triumph, achievement, endurance, incremental victories against impossible odds, courage.
Fascism has a playbook, handed down from generations of dictators, all who ascended to power using this easy-to-follow checklist. Part of that checklist is doing away with "objectionable" reading material.
Texas recently passed a draconian anti-abortion bill, seeking to sabotage a woman’s right to choose. I’m always amazed at the hypocrisy of pro-lifters who won’t lift a finger in protest when deranged gunslingers execute our children in places like Parkland and Sandy Hook, or San Jose, and Colorado Springs...
Recently, Trump held a rally in Alabama, attended by an unmasked crowd, COVID-19 raging in the state, a state with one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country. The attendees are playing Russian Roulette with their lives. That's a cult.
Governor of Georgia signed the new anti-voting bill into existence, surrounded by six white guys…and a painting…wait for it…a painting of…wait for it…a painting of a plantation.
In the 19th century, voter suppression of African Americans morphed into a different form: Poll Taxes and literacy tests, the threat of murder hovering like a dark cloud.
After the 2020 election Republicans introduced over 250 voter suppression bills, mostly aimed at communities of color, making me realize that the cancer Trump exploited was still breathing, simmering, waiting for the next demigod to ignite the cesspool.
In early May 2018, eleven senior advisers of the Trump administration were called to the White House Situation Room. A month earlier, the Trump administration had launched the “zero tolerance” immigration policy, effecting parents with small children.
Trump meets most of the criteria of Orwell’s 1944 definition of fascism: “Something cruel, unscrupulous, arrogant, obscurantist, anti-liberal and anti-working-class… almost any English person would accept ‘bully’ as a synonym for ‘fascist’.”
Voter suppression for African-Americans began when their right to vote was pure fantasy. When our founding fathers were crafting our Constitution, the issue of voting rights was raised, and Afro-Americans were deemed to be ¾ of a person, which was a step up from slavery…or not.
As stated in earlier posts, there is an unfortunate parallel to the Trump phenomenon and Hitler’s blueprint. Just when I say to myself it’s all a coincidence, that he doesn’t mean what he says, or doesn’t mean what he retweets, or that his motives are altruistic, then something like this happens:
No results found.