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Loyalty to the party? Signing loyalty oath to "The Party" sounds like the kind of thing the Nazis did. Of course the communists did it as well. Signing loyalty oaths that the GOP is requiring is unAmerican. And it is a twisted form of McCarthyism at its best.
So now if you are a Republican you must bow to your party. Your constituents do not matter. The brutal truth ia that the GOP is a white supremacist theocratic party that has a lot in common with the Third Reich. They hate poor people, the disabled, gays, lesbians, transgender, women and "others" and push all kinds of policies to punish and persecute "undesirables'. They tout religious superiority and religion under "religious freedom".
And the GOP uses all the same kinds of strategies common in Germany in the 1930's. They use intimidation, character assassination, manipulation, vote riggings, racism, bigotry, lying, propaganda, false rage and in some cases even instigating violence.
The fact that the GOP base supports Trump should be alarming. What would he or the GOP really do with the 11 million. Would they start deportation camps en masses. And what if Mexico refused to take these people back. Would we invade Mexico?
And when you look at GOPPERS reaction to Black Lives Matter who they are is more than clear. They want a lily white Christian nation and are willing to do anything to accomplish that goal.
So if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck. It is a damned duck. Under GOP power we would look like Nazi Germany or even Communist Russia. Thease bastards are hardly American. They ware twisted sick psychopaths.
The trouble is no one is really brave enough to call them what they really are.
malaise
(268,980 posts)100% accurate
potone
(1,701 posts)They hate and fear women, unless they are subservient.
Bonhomme Richard
(9,000 posts)ffr
(22,669 posts)...that target, literally, democrats and democratic candidates. Putting crosshairs on a map where the democratic candidates are said needing to be 'taken out,' is by definition, a whisper campaign to have someone shot. Ask Gabrielle Giffords.
If any political party had impressionable followers, it would be the GOP. And making dangerous suggestions to them is completely intentional at all levels of the GOP media machine.
Loyalty is what the GOP followers in my state preach.
pansypoo53219
(20,976 posts)world wide wally
(21,742 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Look what happened when Clinton dared to speak about the official misogyny of the neo-GOP being comparable to the misogny of foreign terrorists....the mass media went into convulsions!!
And now that xenophobia is now the official position also, how dare anyone talk about that fascist platform either...how dare you not remain silent!!?
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)The GOP is just a bully. You have to savage them without apology and double down and double down. Smash face verbal attacks and outright confrontation is the only thing that will work in the end. You have to be willing to get in the weeds and just fight it out until you finish them. Other wise you will face unending savagery from their side. There is no negotiating with them.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Policies will silence their insanity, winning the WH for an unprecedented 3rd same party term and winning back the gerrymandered Congress will help with that task....then we can work on those empty minds and dark hearts.
Mbrow
(1,090 posts)Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)Neo-nazism comes with an extra special hatred of Jews. Given the GOP's infatuation with Bibi Netanyahu, I doubt the GOP qualifies as neonazist.
Behind the Aegis
(53,956 posts)While the Nazis did in fact have a special hate for Jews, we weren't their only hated group and much of what I am hearing from Trump and a few others sounds eerily like stump speeches in the early days of the Nazi party. The nasty, hate-filled rhetoric coming from the right is reminiscent of the sentiments expressed by the early Nazi regime.
Betty Karlson
(7,231 posts)Not that I'm suggesting Muslims have lived through a Shoa, although I wouldn't put it beyond Netanyahu to fantasise about eradicating Gaza - Warshaw-style.
Behind the Aegis
(53,956 posts)The Jews are still the Jews. Besides, wasn't this about the GOP. not Netanyahu? The GOP certainly have no love Muslims, and wouldn't that put them one more step toward Nazis?
JustAnotherGen
(31,819 posts)Nkt everything is about Israel and the Middle East and Bibi.
This op was bout the hateful hate in this country and the slithering slimy evil of the GOP.
tblue37
(65,340 posts)at which time they expect all who continue to actually be Jewish instead of converting to Christianity to be horrifically killed and then go straight to torment in hell.
Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)I do find it extremely alarming, in that my rock bottom low opinion of mankind in general seems well justified and confirmed. Then add to the mix that nearly half of the voting public supports and will vote for whichever of these turds that eventually will float their way to the top, yeah, I'm alarmed.
samsingh
(17,595 posts)thesquanderer
(11,986 posts)Fairgo
(1,571 posts)Cheers!
tblue37
(65,340 posts)maindawg
(1,151 posts)I have been trying to warn people for years. Finally its become so obvious that people are having to admit it. We are Americans. I understand that we have a hard time accepting the fact that a political party called Republican has gone rogue.
You can trace the seed of fascism back to the institution of slavery. To the debtors prisons. You can find it in the Confederate States and the KKK that resulted from that.
Macarthyism was fascism. The fight for civil rights against the fascist jim crow laws.
When Reagon used fascism to take power. When the SC awarded the presidency to GWB that was fascism. When you subvert the election results anytime its called fascism.
We are a fascist nation. We allow our CIA to assassinate presidents, and commit all manner of crime against our neighbors thats because we , are fascists.
When our police kill our citizens every fucking day and no one cares, thats because we are fascist fucking pigs. We have entire entertainment networks dedicated to promoting fascist ideology what the fuck do you think was going to happen?
Now those fascist pigs who are in fact ,in charge of our republic, are going to tell us who we get to vote for. So dont wonder why Hillary went from being an liberal college student to a conservative democrat. She works for those people. The fascists pigs who are in charge. The ones you will never see. The wall st fascists.
What is frightening, is that Trump is shouting fascist ideology and the Republican idiots are embracing it.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)takes it as being all right to discuss?
Fuck that and fuck the fascist enabling media!
I hope I left nothing back......
moondust
(19,979 posts)Though it might be expected of a deeply authoritarian party. It's what totalitarians do. Neither the Nazis nor the Soviets tolerated any hint of disloyalty. Don't ever be the first to stop applauding.
(Insert GOP boilerplate about "freedom" and stuff here...)
gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)... required loyalty oaths in order to gain admission to his rallies.
The parallels between conservatism and fascism are too numerous to ignore, no matter what revisionist apologists may say.
There were a LOT of Americans who thought little Adolph and his band of merry men were just swell guys. Charles Lindberg comes to mind... and Prescott Bush... And Fred Koch, Sr. All Republicans, too, I believe.
Blue Owl
(50,356 posts)...with an "F"...
tblue37
(65,340 posts)no tax pledge--and he isn't even a party official or an elected official.
They are already comfortable with signing inappropriate loyalty oaths.