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Is the GOP doing little more than exploiting the all too common ignorance, in regards to Islam and the atrocities being carried out by Daesh in Syria and elsewhere, that is characteristic of too many Americans?
Is the party exploiting xenophobia for political reasons alone? OR is it like their ranting about the liberals driving up the national debt with "socialistic" practices such as welfare and Social Security and Obamacare? A "ranting" which always disappears whenever the GOP is in the White House and "money must be spent for our defence!!!"
When a candidate begins talking about "databases for Muslims" and when asked how such a registry is different from the Jewish registry under the Nazis, his answer is: "You tell me." are we seeing the first steps toward a fascist America?
How about another candidate who said:
Are the candidates for the GOP nomination willing to say such words because they understand their base believes the First Amendment's religious freedom and free speech clauses are only applicable to those Americans of "Judeo-Christian" beliefs? These candidates are saying that America should only accept refugees who can "prove they are Christian"
Is the party exploiting xenophobia for political reasons alone? OR is it like their ranting about the liberals driving up the national debt with "socialistic" practices such as welfare and Social Security and Obamacare? A "ranting" which always disappears whenever the GOP is in the White House and "money must be spent for our defence!!!"
When a candidate begins talking about "databases for Muslims" and when asked how such a registry is different from the Jewish registry under the Nazis, his answer is: "You tell me." are we seeing the first steps toward a fascist America?
How about another candidate who said:
. . . he is open to closing “anyplace where radicals are inspired.” This includes mosques:
It’s not about closing down mosques. It’s about closing down anyplace, whether it’s a cafe, a diner, an internet site — anyplace where radicals are being inspired. The bigger problem we have is our inability to find out where these places are, because we’ve crippled our intelligence programs, both through unauthorized disclosures by a traitor, in Edward Snowden, or by some of the things this president has put in place with the support even of some from my own party to diminish our intelligence capabilities.
Are the candidates for the GOP nomination willing to say such words because they understand their base believes the First Amendment's religious freedom and free speech clauses are only applicable to those Americans of "Judeo-Christian" beliefs? These candidates are saying that America should only accept refugees who can "prove they are Christian"
The GOP Stampede Toward Fascism After the Paris Attacks
There is an odor of early fascism, or rather of the hysteria that precedes the march away from democracy, to much of this Trumpian rhetoric. An odor of the street fight. An odor of the iron fist.
It is an acrid smell, a mid-century aroma tinted with totalitarianism and historical ignorance. No society can protect its open, pluralistic politics by thoughtlessly clamping down on civil liberties. No country can seriously sustain its claim to being a beacon for human liberty if its most demagogic forces are unleashed against vulnerable, hungry, scared, and desperate refugees.