Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Meanwhile in America, Republicans see Gaza as a useful model for their Political Violence

Well to do Conservatives use
Guns and Teslas for Terrorism

“I don’t think Israel can be expected to co-exist or find some diplomatic off-ramp with these savages. These are people, as you’ve been reporting that deliberately targeted teenage girls, women and children and the elderly, not just for rape and murder and then dumping thei bodies off in the streets of Gaza where the crowds can then defile their lifeless bodies. They’re just horrifying things. We don’t know the full extent of it yet. There’s more to come in the days and weeks ahead. You can’t co-exist with that. They have to be eradicated.” - Senator Marco Rubio

Republicans are getting real, real comfortable with eliminationist rhetoric.  Political violence is happening in America and Republicans are not only encouraging it they are doing it.

The encirclement, walls, snipers, blockade, indiscriminate missile strikes, denial of basic necessities, and other techniques of a slow-grinding ethnic cleansing of Gaza is the model Republicans wish to emulate against "Democrat" cities.

Understand, Republicans have been telling their voters for years that Democrats execute babies ("ripped from the womb") in a gruesome fashion reminiscent of the recent Hamas atrocity.  They've convinced their followers that BLM, and Antifa, and the fentanyl smuggling migrants from Mexico* are massing in "Democrat" cities with the full intention of sallying forth and killing whites throughout the Nation.

I'm certain Republicans would use Escape from New York as a model for their plans to control blue state cities, except for the fact, that blue state cities provide all the money for red states and without the economic engines of major Democratic cities and states, Republican controlled states would be impoverished ShitHole Nations.

Meanwhile, over the last 40 years there has been a slow undermining of America; you gerrymander cities by slicing up sections and then drowning them with rural exurbs, you flood the Nation with guns, you hollow out the manufacturing and industrial base, you underfund schools, you impose draconian drug laws, which you prosecute in a wholly unequal fashion.

However, you can see and hear the yearning for an organized, methodical application of State-sponsored violence to be directed at the people Republicans hate.  In the meantime, Republicans will continue to embolden "Lone Wolves" through repetition repetition repetition of lies and agitprop of cat litter boxes in classrooms, Transgender grooming teachers, babies being born and slaughtered by crazed Democrats because Republicans know this non-stop flood of disinformation eventually leads to a stochastic terror attack.

These 4 recent incidents, by no means the only ones, highlight the escalating violence just oozing from Republicans and their rightwing drones;

For a while, Republicans have been barely satisfied with civilian rightwing violence directed at the the enemies of MAGA but, multiple Paramilitary conservative terror groups exist now and their bloodlust won't be satiated by a few shots fired at an Indigenous protest or at a Planned Parenthood building.  They and many elected Republicans want state-sanctioned and state-enforced violence against "the Left".  

As to Israel/Palestine there is a very sad phenomenon here in America, in which the erstwhile Left eats itself either in unthinking reflexive blame or unthinking reflexive support of Israel.  There is no corollary amongst Republicans who have decided for electoral reasons to defend Israel's activities no matter what.  It's long been noted that American Jewish people and Israelis themselves have no trouble ascribing blame.  But, here any mention of the background of Israel and Palestine means you support Hamas and any criticism of the bombing of Gaza means you support the monstrous Hamas Terror Attack of October 7th.  There's so much hatred over there I fear the Israeli and Palestinian people are doomed. 

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