Republicans want to distract us from their actual agenda, which bears a much closer resemblance to fascist states like Russia and Hungary than communism in Cuba.
Thom Hartmann
The bottom line here is that Trump and his co-conspirators were not only willing but planning to recreate Reagan’s and Nixon’s Kent State slaughter on a nationwide basis.
It looks like the billionaires who control the MAGA movement have learned from January 6th and won’t make the mistake of having an independent military, FBI, press, or Department of Justice again.
Reagan’s economic policies marked the beginning of the neoliberal experiment, which weakened the middle class and caused inequality to skyrocket in America. Which in turn are driving America’s culture of gun violence and mass shootings.
This truly is a climate emergency, and every day that goes by without significant action further endangers the future of almost all life on Earth, including us.
Trump has openly threatened violence: “If you fuck around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are going to do things to you that have never been done before.”
Governor Abbott wanted people to jump through long, complex, confusing hoops to retain their Medicaid. Many thousands did not, which is explicitly his goal.
The federal government under Trump suddenly stopped trying to save lives and started promoting policies that would eventually kill—unnecessarily—a half-million Americans.
Trump may or may not be the GOP’s nominee this time next year, but, whoever it is, now is the time to harden our democracy against a neofascist MAGA Republican rising to that office.
Dissent—like in the colonies before 1776—is no longer allowed in the GOP. Authoritarianism like that of King George III now prevails. Oligarchy has completely seized the Party.
Student debt is a crime, weakening our intellectual infrastructure while maintaining and rigidifying racial and class caste systems inherited from the eras of slavery and indenture.
As President Biden said, “We can't take democracy for granted any longer. … Make no mistake. Democracy is on the ballot...”
Is there something in the GOP’s core beliefs and strategies that just inevitably leads to hating on their citizens and worshiping poverty, death, and disease?
The essence of fascism is intimidation. It stops resistance, stifles opposition, and causes the fearful and desperate to cooperate. It scares off researchers, reporters, and opinion writers…
The simple reality is that as long as its legal for corporations to drop unlimited amounts of money into political campaigns, citizens and good-government groups will almost always be blown out of the water.
The press loves to call No Labels “centrist,” “unaffiliated,” and “independent.” They are none of the above. The group is almost entirely funded by dark money and refuses to reveal their donor list.