The SPLC says hate groups "have beliefs or practices that attack or
malign an entire class of people,..for their immutable
characteristics."…
Throughout the overly long and ridiculously drawn out two-year
presidential campaign for the 2016 general election, the one defining
universal trait among Republicans is their habit of spreading hate
against Americans. Republicans know their base, and they are well aware
that it is filled with low-intellect religious Americans who are
generally well-armed and actively looking for someone, or some innocent
group, to attack. It is true that Republicans are not calling on their
supporters to kill other Americans in the media, but their use of
vitriol and lies is accomplishing that goal all the same.
Stochastic terrorism is defined as using of mass communications to
stir up random lone individuals to carry out desired violent terrorist
acts that are statistically predictable, but individually unpredictable.
Translation; Republicans know that with enough incitement, no small
number of their supporters will commit an act of terror, they are just
not sure who will do the killing. By now, only evangelical fanatics and
Republicans are unaware that the reason America is now a structurally
violent society is because evangelical fanatics and Republicans spend
the majority of their time inciting “
random lone individuals to carry out desired violent terrorist acts”
against Americans. And as the past few years have demonstrated, they
are always the Americans the Republican cabal and religio-wingnuts regard as “
undesirables.”
Although Republicans, and all of their wingnut iterations, have
always singled out one group or another as undesirables as the focus of
their hate, since the election of Barack Obama they have greatly
expanded their “
undesirable” list. It is important to note that according to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), “
official
hate groups are those that have beliefs or practices that attack or
malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable
characteristics.”
Using that definition, it is more than safe to say that the
Republican cabal and its various cohorts are officially a hate group.
And, instead of attacking one entire class of people, they have focused
on every segment of the population save the very rich and the very
religious, if the very religious are evangelical fanatics. It does not
matter if it is the poor, women, the LGBT community, liberals, atheists,
immigrants, Muslims, veterans, Hispanic or African Americans,
Republicans have used the media to incite rage and hate against them
all.
Republicans claim the source of the problem is secularism, liberals,
President Obama, humanistic activists, women, immigrants and minorities
who make themselves the target of hate and violence just by existing in “
white 'christian' America.”
Over the past few months, at least, Republicans have abandoned their
typical dog whistles for blatant calls to action, and offer tacit
approval when their followers commit acts of violence and terror against
other Americans.
For example, after two men
beat a homeless Hispanic man half-to-death, instead of a harsh condemnation Trump tacitly approved by saying his “
followers are passionate and just want America to be great again.”
Trump followed that abominable approval with praise for his followers
for beating and kicking a BlackLivesMatter protester in Alabama. Trump
said, “
He should have been roughed up. It was disgusting what he was doing.”
What the man was doing was exercising his 1st Amendment right while
being black; in many Republican minds that constitutionally-protected
right “
was disgusting” simply because the American citizen exercising it was not white.
Trump is certainly not alone in inciting terror. A day before the wingnut hater stormed the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood and
murdered three innocent Americans, evangelical freak-of-nature and
Cuban-Canadian immigrant Cruz boasted
that he had won the unwavering endorsement of an evangelical fanatic
that called for the execution of women’s healthcare providers. The man
Cruz gloated over was Newman who wrote that it is every 'christian’s'
“
responsibility rightly involves executing abortionists for their crimes;”
the crime of performing a legal medical procedure. Newman also harshly
criticized the conviction of Paul Hill for murdering a Florida abortion
doctor arguing that “
there was no justice because the court prevented him from presenting the legal defense of justifiable defensive action.”
Cruz has also won the ringing endorsement of evangelical zealots
calling
for the government to begin, forthwith, executing homosexuals according
to old testament dictates. The justification, like Republican haters
calling for abortion providers’ murders, for calling for executing LGBT
people is the religio-wingnuts’ delusion that the 'christian' bible, and not
the U.S. Constitution, is the law of the land and Republicans have
spent no small amount of time incrementally making that false belief a
reality; it is why they are not demanding their followers dial back
their religion-inspired hate.
After the Colorado Springs massacre, baptist huckster Huckabee said unnecessary deaths are bad, but he
couched
that remark by claiming Planned Parenthood is responsible for
unnecessary fetal deaths. For the thousandth time, the 'christian' bible’s dog said that until a
fetus exits the womb and ‘breathes air’ it is NOT a living being. But
telling the truth according to the book the religio-wingnuts claim gives
them dog-authority to murder abortion providers is as much an
abomination to evangelicals as practicing jesus’ teachings.
The list of demographics that Republicans hate, and have whipped
their base to frenzied rage to take action against, is exhaustive.
Republicans have used fear and hatred to target the poor regardless of
race, minorities, environmentalists, immigrants, liberals, women,
scientists, gays, non-christians, workers and anyone who does not
support the religio-wingnut and corporate agenda. Unfortunately,
the Republicans’ “
stochastic terrorism” is not only responsible
for transforming America into a nation resembling sectarian Iraq, they
have Americans’ blood on their hands and instead of dialing back their
incitement, they are on the verge of turning their supporters on the
rest of the country.
There are some pundits, and Republicans for that matter, who claim they are not responsible for the so-called “
lone wolves”
committing murder, mayhem, and acts of terror. However, whether
officially, or just in passing, the national Republican cabal refuses to condemn fear
and hate mongering that has led to terrorism against American citizens
and it is why the Republican cabal is without a doubt a certifiable hate
group and now is the time for the SPLC to make it official.
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