Semi-Fascists

 

Last week Thursday, President Biden finally called out the Rethuglicans, calling them “semi-fascists.”  Of course, the Rethugs and GQP went berserk, whining about how awful it was for the President to say such a thing about them.  Of course, they forget all the names and insults they’ve thrown not only at President Biden but Democrats too.  I think the Rethugs “doth protest too much.”

They’ve proven again and again and again that they are, at the very least, “semi” fascist.  Frankly, I’d call them full-blown.  You need look no further than what some of these characters have said and done.  Most recently, it was Senator Lindsay Graham, who went on Fox News to announce that if 45 was charged with anything, there would be rioting in the streets.  Maybe it was incitement; maybe not.  Definitely, though, it fits in with fascist SOP.  They use threats of violence to keep people in line.

Then there’s Governor Death Santis in FL.  He’s the guy that went into covid-denial overdrive and then out of left field into the subspace.  He fought with Disney (and lost) over his “Don’t Say Gay” law.  Not only are teachers and students not allowed to talk about different sexuality and genders, the original had teachers ratting kids out to their parents.  Definitely trying to turn teachers into secret police and dropped like a hot potato (I hope).   He went after corporations that would give classes regarding critical race theory with a law called Stop Woke Act.  Fortunately, I recently read a judge stopped him in his tracks there.  Even before SCOTUS betrayed us on Roe v. Wade, he was championing legislation severely restricting access to abortion.

Robert Reich wrote an opinion piece about whether this guy is a fascist and got some heat for it.  What I found most interesting was Reich’s explanation of the difference between an authoritarian and a fascist.  They’re about the same but a fascist is filled with hatred toward one or more groups.  Death Santis definitely has it in for people who are other than straight, deliberately targeting and hurting LBGTQ kids especially.

The whole formerly respectable GOP has become a hateful Rethuglican/GQP organization.

Governor Abbott in TX does not like immigrants.  Rethugs there call people trying to escape poverty and gangs further south “invaders.”  His response to the Uvalde mass killing was just appalling.  He didn’t go to any of the funerals.  Most of the children and teachers killed were not white.  Abbott doesn’t particularly care for women either, apparently.  A tale of two women: one, a woman that learned that not only would her baby not survive, she might die too.  She needed an abortion but wasn’t allowed one so she had to go out of state.  Apparently, TX was ok not only with her baby dying soon after birth, but her too.  The other example is of the woman who started to have a miscarriage when she was 18 weeks pregnant.  After losing so much amniotic fluid, doctors weren’t hopeful the baby would survive—but they were not allowed to perform an abortion even though the woman could and did become very ill with an infection.  This nightmare goes on in other red states with outlawed or severely restricted abortion laws.

Oklahoma has one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country.  They also don’t like their students to learn about diverse people and sexualities.  They have joined FL, TX and other red states banning books.  Recently, they fired a teacher whose crime was to provide a link to a library that would loan a banned book to any student in the country. 

I know that white supremacy is alive and well in the “Christian” nationalists, extreme right wing militias, KKK, Nazis in America and other outrageous groups but this completely floored me:  Mississippi appeals court upholds an old Jim Crow law that would keep Black people from voting.  WTAF?  The case will be appealed up to the Supreme Court but who knows what will happen there?  After all, conservatives are in control and they all seem to be TFG supporters.

We all know HE is a fascist.  He is filled with hatred, only having love for himself.

This is why it's so important that every Democrat of voting age VOTES this November!  We want to save our democracy.