Joe Nation
Joe Nation's JournalHave you noticed Repukes changing the word "insurrection"?
I first started noticing it online in chat forums and then started hearing it in republican controlled State Houses across the country. They have two reasons to change the meaning of the word. The first is to muddy the waters so that when someone uses the word insurrection, it doesn't just refer to the January 6th insurrection but anything they choose to call an insurrection. This effectively mutes the criticism of their ilk's behavior by attempting to inject many instances of insurrection and making their insurrection just one of many, whether or not the latter instances are even remotely related to the term insurrection. If you speak out against Repuke policies, you're an insurrectionist. If you protest against Repuke policies, you're an insurrectionist.
The second thing it does, is give their ilk a talking point that they can throw back in the faces of those that point out that they tried to overthrow the government after losing an election. Never mind arguing with them that protesting policies in no way equates to an insurrection and that public protest is a Constitutionally protected right while insurrection is treason. They don't care as long as they have something to use in one of their loosely based in reality arguments.
The reason any of this matters is because in any fascist authoritarian autocratic movement, the meaning of words begins to change. The definition of insurrection is a violent uprising against an authority or government. Any protest in opposition to their agenda is now considered violence in their world. The right to protest is likely the next casualty of this anti-democratic cabal.
Here is something you've never heard of but probably are exposed to every day
The term is: Reverse Validation. It is when a politician or a leader or a media organization takes an issue like birth control, gay marriage, or even child labor laws, and publicly sows doubt and controversy where issues such as these seem to most of us to have been settled already. Why do this? Because it releases lots and lots of energy in the population it is directed at.
"The war on Christmas" is an example of a seasonal reverse validation. A kind of hybrid use of this ideology. Reverse validation quickly angers people around some issue and once the energy has been effectively used up, another issue is introduced and another and another keeping the target audience either angry or on the edge of anger all of the time.
You might have an easier time remembering this dynamic if you simply call it the Fox business model.
The real cost of electing Republicans - Your children
The dynamic of the gun manufacturing lobby pushing more and more lenient gun access laws across the country as well as a core group of Right wing Second Amendment fanatics threatening any Republican with loss of their legislative position if they promote any commonsense gun legislation, boils down to Republicans trading our children's lives for their coveted government jobs.
So, what exactly is the ratio of Republican legislators to dead children over time? How many children does it cost to keep each Republican comfy cozy in their lucrative taxpayer job?
The only thing these Republicans worry about is the loss of their jobs. They aren't even pretending to care about kids gunned down in classrooms anymore. They simply go silent until the next shooting and quietly pass more and more lenient gun laws in between mass shootings. Rinse and repeat.
The cost of electing any Republican is just too high. No child deserves to die so some fraternity boy can live up to daddy's expectations. If they are willing to use our children to further their own political careers, why do we even need them? The Republican Party has to wither and die if our children are to live in a world free of school mass shootings.
ELECT DEMOCRATS - SAVE CHILDREN.
Defund Federal Law Enforcement
Says Trump.
Now wait a minute. A couple of protesters wanted to defund the police because the police were openly killing citizens and the Right wingers went nuts. I mean, you never saw any major democrats support this idea but it was definitely said by some of the protesters in the wake of multiple police abuses. I get the passion but not the solution.
Now we have Trump calling for defending Federal Law Enforcement because he has been charged personally. Is the Right going to go nuts again?
The two motives are pretty stark. One is concern for the safety of citizens on the streets that may be pulled over for a broken tail light and end up dead while the other is simply Trump concerned for himself.
This is why I find the Right such a collection of hypocrites. It's pretty straight forward.
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