Author Sharon E. Cathcart ✅Apr 17, 2023

Quote from article: Once the Nazis took power they banned books, outlawed drag shows and homosexuality, changed school curricula to remove mention of their atrocities in WWI, and rewrote election laws so they’d never again lose an election.

My thoughts: A whole bunch of people, myself included, started pointing out parallels between the Trump-era GOP and the Nazis well before he was elected. We were accused of employing hyperbole, and told to "give him a chance."

Well, just call me Cassandra ... because here we are.

Just. Like. I. Said. We. Would. Be.

https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/whats-behind-the-gops-war-against?r=1ekuyr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

What’s Behind the GOP’s War Against Democracy?

And are rightwing billionaires who want more, more, more money willing to make common cause with bigots, fascists, and wannabee killers to get it?

The Hartmann Report
Show threadLazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Apr 17, 2023
@sharonecathcart on this long road to Fascism there has been a constant whine of "don't upset the fascists, and don't call them 'Fascists', you'll hurt their feelings" and I want to see what those people think now or are they still lying to us and themselves?
Show threadAuthor Sharon E. Cathcart ✅Apr 17, 2023

@Lazarou I spent many fruitless hours asking people why the blatant behaviors Trump displayed (misogyny, anti-semitism, racism, mocking people with disabilities, etc.) were not deal-breakers for them. None of them could give me an answer.

I now know it's because they felt their own horrific biases were validated.

I naively believed we were doing better as a country than this ... and now all I can do is to continue to raise my voice, whether verbally or through my writing, to speak truth in the face of their lies.

Show threadEJJamesApr 17, 2023
@sharonecathcart @Lazarou for at least one I talked with, ending legal abortion was worth putting up with anything. SMH
Show threadAuthor Sharon E. Cathcart ✅Apr 17, 2023

@EJJames @Lazarou

So for that person, women dying of illegal abortions was an acceptable outcome.

That's the kind of thing we need to keep pointing out ... because abortion has been with us since time immemorial, and is not going anywhere any time soon.

Authoritarians like having the ability to punish. In this case, they want to punish women for having sex without wanting to be pregnant.

Show threadNancyAnnApr 17, 2023
@sharonecathcart @EJJames @Lazarou
And now pregnant women dying in ever higher numbers is acceptable.
Show threadAuthor Sharon E. Cathcart ✅

@nancyann @EJJames @Lazarou

Yep. Dead women are a feature, not a bug, to a certain crowd. They don't care that the US maternal mortality rate is the highest in the developed world. They don't care that every single pregnancy carries the risk of complications, up to and including death, that cannot be predicted until they occur. They don't care that a legal abortion is orders of magnitude safer than gestation.

They just want to punish women for having sex without wanting to be mothers.

Apr 17, 2023 at 8:02pmWeb