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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Saturday, October 27, 2018

The Wolf At The Door

Today's shooting at a bris...a bris, Jesus Christ, we are a morally bankrupt society...is the THIRD EXAMPLE THIS WEEK of Right Wing violence.

In Kentucky, there was a racist attack that killed two African Americans.

In Florida, there was the MagaBomber.

In Pittsburgh, we have an Anti-Semite shooting up a synagogue.

At first, the Right Wing Wurlitzer went with the "False Flag" bullshit.  (They ignored the Kentucky shooting.)  Now that we have had three incidents in one week, it's worth asking why.  The Wurlitzer will say "Lone Nut."  But that's such a feeble dodge.

First, why is it that all these "Lone Nuts" seem to be breaking towards the Right?  Yes, there was that awful attack on the GOP Congressional softball practice. Inexcusable and terrible. Since then, however, we've had many incidents of RW violence.

Second, look at the targets: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, African Americans, Maxine Waters, Robert De Niro, Jews...these are the attacks that eminate from Donald Trump at his Volkstrum rallies.  Every attack on George Soros is code for anti-Semitism.  Who the hell is George Soros?  Does anyone remember him at a public appearance?  On CNN?  Why is he the face of Judaism and "Globalism?"  Because Trump and Hannity and Limbaugh and Coulter and Carlson have made him the face of Judaism. 

Trump has routinely led his cult in chants of hatred and targeted the very people and groups that Sayoc targeted.  He and Fox News have made an industry of demonizing groups of people that are different than Cesar Sayoc, Robert Bowers and Gregory Bush.  They have made them un-American, inhuman, things. 

Now, yes, yes, the caveat, "not all Republicans." 

Here's the thing, if you support Trump, you are supporting the conditions that empowers Sayoc, Bowes and Bush.  Those men are all likely crazy.  But that crazy needs a focus to start building bombs and shooting up places of worship.  Trump provides it.  The GOP abets it.

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