As I said elsewhere, the current incarnation of the Republican Party is a terrorist organization. In fortunately, this is not the first time that party practiced terrorism writ large over the country. I was a kid in the 1950s but I remember with great clarity the ravages of McCarthyism. Lives ruined, people blacklisted and prevented from working, especially in creative arts such as theater and film. Read “Pentimento,” Lillian Hellman’s autobiography of what she and Dashiell Hammett went through.
Republicans have always had a leaning toward totalitarianism. What I’m saying is that this behavior is not new or original with Trump. In his perverted way, he is the logical outcome of tendencies among Republicans of every decade of this century. What’s astonishing is how a political party founded as a protest to slavery morphed into a proudly capitalist, exploitative, totalitarian party it is today. No oligarch can ever go too far for them. The hell with labor and the working class.
They are awful now but they always were, it’s just out in the open, no holds barred rampant evil now.
Line 3 should be Unfortunately, not what you see there.
As I said elsewhere, the current incarnation of the Republican Party is a terrorist organization. In fortunately, this is not the first time that party practiced terrorism writ large over the country. I was a kid in the 1950s but I remember with great clarity the ravages of McCarthyism. Lives ruined, people blacklisted and prevented from working, especially in creative arts such as theater and film. Read “Pentimento,” Lillian Hellman’s autobiography of what she and Dashiell Hammett went through.
Republicans have always had a leaning toward totalitarianism. What I’m saying is that this behavior is not new or original with Trump. In his perverted way, he is the logical outcome of tendencies among Republicans of every decade of this century. What’s astonishing is how a political party founded as a protest to slavery morphed into a proudly capitalist, exploitative, totalitarian party it is today. No oligarch can ever go too far for them. The hell with labor and the working class.
They are awful now but they always were, it’s just out in the open, no holds barred rampant evil now.
We absolutely must have a trifecta. Money should be pouring into Montana, Texas and Florida.