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Donald J. Drumpf
@RealDonalDrumpf
I'm the one who gave the farmers the socialism, Marco.
Marco Rubio
@marcorubio
Not every democrat is a socialist
But every socialist is a democrat
jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)..that logic is Marco's strong suit.
vollehosen
(130 posts)Not every republican is a racist
But every racist is a republican
See how easy that was?
Not every republican is a fascist,
But every fascist is a republican!
Yeah, he shouldn't have gone there.
Wounded Bear
(58,642 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)But he probably doesnt
PatSeg
(47,397 posts)if he realizes what he's started.
"Not all republicans are.................."! This can go on all day.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)PatSeg
(47,397 posts)as we wait for Tuesday. Better than doom and dread!
JHB
(37,158 posts)...and not all topsoil has the brains of a Republican.
But Marco Rubio does have the brains of topsoil.
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)PatSeg
(47,397 posts)"Not everyone republican is trying to throw out votes to steal the election,
But everyone who is trying to throw out votes to steal the election is a republican."
The possibilities are endless!
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)PatSeg
(47,397 posts)Link to tweet
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Hortensis
(58,785 posts)(2% are LW, 4% Muslim) Startling figures, but they're the FBI's.
PatSeg
(47,397 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Law enforcement has a saying to the effect that LW terrorists blow up empty buildings, RW blow up people. But when's the last LW terrorism we can remember?
PatSeg
(47,397 posts)terrorism is higher than I'd expected.
Left-wing terrorism was fairly common in the sixties and seventies, but like you say, they were more inclined to damage property, not people. I can't think of any examples in recent years, though the actions of anarchists are sometimes blamed on liberals. Even then, so called "anarchists" often turn out to be right-wing extremists trying to make liberals look bad.
Fifty years later, republicans are still trying to paint Democrats as violent extremists. They really need a new playbook.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)in discussion of violent domestic terrorist acts.
I was there in the 1960s too. I remember all the media hype of LW terrorism among scary militant black men and dangerous revolutionaries produced by our subversive liberal universities.
It's as you say: A common media theme, and not an innocent one, was and is that liberalism is the birthplace of militant black activists -- and of militant LW revolutionaries, including Rubio's "socialist" democracy-smashers. Not hardly. Many members, and leaders, of groups considered LW because they claim to fight for equality instead of inequality were angry hard-core conservatives who behaved according to their natures.
Those had far more in common with their counterparts in far-right white supremacist groups than with those, like John Lewis, who fought even more determinedly for equality, but were committed to peaceful progress, from within the centers of power.
That very old violent black extremists bullshit. Remember when republicans got all bent out of shape because there were two Black Panthers at the polls last time? There is still a misleading stigma about the Black Panthers and any black protest group. The image such a narrative creates never matches the reality, but republicans continue to use it because it works with their base.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)I had to search to find out what happened to them, the so-called New Black Panther Party. Still don't know. No news these days -- about THEM. Last May the Family Research Council/Tony Perkins successfully used their name to demonize another group's voter registration efforts.
Otherwise, the NPLC has an old entry for a minor group of RW black extremists with the usual RW hates, their versions almost without difference. They had done some bad things and had a leadership fracture, with a few splintering away as the New Black Panther Party For Self Defense.
Interesting that these little groups are doing so poorly in this era when anger is in the air and RW white hate groups sprout up everywhere like toxic mushrooms.
mnmoderatedem
(3,724 posts)well you know the rest
Hotler
(11,415 posts)quaker bill
(8,224 posts)they find the democrats too conservative.
Clearly fogged in
(1,896 posts)PatSeg
(47,397 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)Renew Deal
(81,855 posts)Most real socialists are not Democrats, but there are few real socialists in America.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)And making society work for more people is hardly socialism, but any efforts to make government function for more than just the over-rich seems to set off nitwits like Sen. Rubio.
Poiuyt
(18,122 posts)Just kidding. Every Republican IS a fascist!