Are you a "die hard" Republican - not to be confused with "conservative?"
Do you believe everything Republicans, Fox News, Breitbart, etc tell you?
Shame on you! Get out and blow the stink off! Get out of your comfort zone.
The GOP and their allies in conservative media (Fox News,
Breitbart, etc.) have been working over 30 years on the propaganda coup of a
lifetime.
They:
·
Created
single issue voters: They made abortion the one and only voting issue for a
significant minority of Americans.
·
Created
“right to life” anti-abortion activists who have no opposition to GOP policies that
cost the lives of thousands of adults and children here and abroad:
o
Military
actions/war;
o
Refusal
to support universal health care;
o
Opposition
to basic social safety network programs (food stamps, housing assistance, etc.);
o
Opposition
to environmental protections (creating unsafe drinking water, etc);
o
Support
of death penalty; etc.
·
Succeeded
in making millions of Americans believe that the most respected, accomplished,
independent media cannot be trusted on anything anywhere anytime – the “lame
stream media.” The only media that can be trusted is ideological right wing
media.
·
Attacked free speech. The current president who is convincing
people that independent journalism is “fake news” and that journalists are “the
enemy of the people.”
·
Lied repeatedly about violence, destruction of property, etc at well
documented peaceful protests.
·
Used derogatory language to create false beliefs about political
opponents:
·
Environmentalists have become “tree huggers.”
·
Community minded people who believe in “the commons” are labeled
“socialists.”
·
Created a hatred of our very means of organizing our community
lives: our government!
·
Created a belief that private for profit corporations – whose CEO,
executives, managers make millions and millions of dollars – are more trustworthy than our people-owned and
operated government.
·
Persuaded Americans to hate the poor – while claiming to be
Christian! The basic inequities and
inequalities of life are ignored and poor people are blamed for their state.
·
Convinced the American public that this country is and should be
a theocracy and that non-Christians are at fault for social ills!
·
Made immigrants the enemy. Yes, the children and grandchildren of
immigrants now believe that immigrants are the enemy.
The list could go on and on and on…Where do we
go from here? We live in a bifurcated political world.
With great love and much sadness but always S.W.A.K.
Vivian
