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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn Their Real Heart GOPPERS Want Gays Executed. That Fact IS The Brutal Truth.
There is no question that the GOP is instigating a pogrom against gays and transgenders. They are using religious freedom as a cover. We must realize that we are in the grips of a totally criminal and genocidal party. It is NOT just Trump. It is the GOP, conservatives, white supremacists and fake Christians that are behind these efforts. And billionaires are funding the process.
Irish_Dem
(46,880 posts)TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)Irish_Dem
(46,880 posts)brooklynite
(94,489 posts)Uncalled for
Permanut
(5,598 posts)after reading the KKK Crusader for August 2016 (the one with Donald Trump on the cover) . Respectfully disagreeing.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)...but to assume that, say, a Mike Pence wants to persecute LGBTQ people is probably fallacious. There is so much money to be made by pretending to hate gays that there are politicians more than willing to play the part.
When it stops paying so well, then we'll see who actually hates whom.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)surveil their partners indefinitely. You know they are not going to want to pay for the upkeep and monitoring of these people for very long, so I am thinking that their plan is the thin edge of the wedge in trying to get rid of these people permanently. l was horrified when I read what she was proposing. I think it is probably the closest we have come to Nazi Germany yet.
First, you just separate them from the rest of society. That's all. Then....
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)We have to start going after these hate mongers and putting them on notice. We are headed for some real violence if we do not shut them up somehow.
mythology
(9,527 posts)Pogroms were a specific thing. You cheapen that history with this silly comparison.