All of it at the link: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2 ... n-playbook
By Kurt Bardella
The Republican Party has a clear vision for the future of the United States: one that’s white, Christian and fundamentally opposed to Western ideals of pluralism.
These goals certainly aren’t new. Since President Ronald Reagan tethered the Republican Party to the Christian right, the objectives have been obvious and the barriers to realizing them have slowly eroded. We’re currently standing at a precipice where the GOP, fully consumed by Trumpism, is closer than ever to codifying this vision.
And ironically, while Republicans have sought to alarm voters with ludicrous fears of Democrats wanting to enact “communism,” the America they want is much closer to that of Soviet and Putin’s Russia. In fact, the actions conservatives are embracing and what’s happening in Russia are so similar that comparisons cannot be considered hyperbole.
In both the USSR and modern Russia, homophobia is rampant and LGBTQ people are brutally punished for their existence. A common slur for gay men in Russian is the same word as that for “pedophile,” and Russian President Vladimir Putin has perpetuated the vile trope that gay people abuse children.
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The Republican Party has a clear vision for the future of the United States
The Republican Party has a clear vision for the future of the United States
I sigh in your general direction.
Re: The Republican Party has a clear vision for the future of the United States
Typical of the democratic party and liberals. They know they can't win by being honest about their ideas and ideals. So they attempt to demonize the opposition.
" I am a socialist " Bernie Sanders
Re: The Republican Party has a clear vision for the future of the United States
You're the ones that can't be honest. One guy admits the truth - you want to eliminate Medicare and Social Security because it's "socialism" (you still contend Social Security is a Ponzi Scheme, which even Joe Memphis says it isn't), and everyone pretends that's not what they want to do.
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I sigh in your general direction.
Re: The Republican Party has a clear vision for the future of the United States
I sigh in your general direction.
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Re: The Republican Party has a clear vision for the future of the United States
The South wil rise again.
Russia is our friend.
-- Some very fine conservative whites in Charlottesville
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Shine the light of truth on them.
~ Ida B. Wells
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These people's complaints about socialismcommunism is just shorthand for why does the gubbamint keep giving those niggers and sp#cs my munny!gounion wrote: ↑Thu Apr 28, 2022 2:32 pm You're the ones that can't be honest. One guy admits the truth - you want to eliminate Medicare and Social Security because it's "socialism" (you still contend Social Security is a Ponzi Scheme, which even Joe Memphis says it isn't), and everyone pretends that's not what they want to do.
It always has been.
They never had these complaints about socialismcommunism when the government was handing them land, seats on the bus, spots in the military, grandfather clauses, and gubbamint home and VA loans while while denying all of these things to everyone else. :problem:
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The way to right wrongs is to
Shine the light of truth on them.
~ Ida B. Wells
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The way to right wrongs is to
Shine the light of truth on them.
~ Ida B. Wells
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