I am totally fed up with Republicans accusing Democrats of being communists and anarchists. Period. We need to turn this back on them and give them the burden of defending themselves.
N.B. Yes, I know that Russia is technically not a “communist” country anymore; it’s more of an authoritarian oligarchy. But it looks and acts an awful lot like the communist USSR that I grew up with. And its friends are all communist countries. If it walks and talks like a communist country...
Point 1: Communists. Who loves and admires Putin? Who asked Russia to hack Hillary’s emails? Who held up aid to Ukraine to defend itself so that he could get dirt on Hunter Biden? Who asked Putin to attack NATO countries that he perceives as slackers? Who wrote love letters to Kim Jong Un? Who refuses to fund Ukraine in its defense of its country against a communist takeover? Who accepted rigged information from a communist agent in order to impeach Biden? Who, who, who? Republicans, that’s who.
And Republicans in general want an authoritarian state that will order women and people of color to obey the commands of white men. They openly disdain democracy. They’re doing everything possible to sabotage our democratic election system by attacking its legitimacy and terrorizing elections officials. They don’t care if Trump gets elected and declares himself President-for-Life.
To paraphrase, when somebody tells you who they are, believe them the first time.
Republicans = Communists and communist sympathizers.
Point 2: Anarchy — a state of disorder due to absence or nonrecognition of authority or other controlling systems.
Wow — if someone wanted to come up with a perfect definition of the House of Representatives right now, this would be it.
Chaos reigns in the Republican Party — and in this country — because everyone is so busy bowing down to Trump that nobody is in actual control. Of anything. Of Congress. Of the budget. Of foreign policy. Of guns. Of immigration. The only thing that Republicans seem to want to control is women’s bodies. That’s it. And they appear to be doing a great job of that right now — in red states, but if Trump gets elected…
Republicans hate government, federal, state, and local. They don’t want the federal government telling them they can’t have assault rifles, can’t pollute, can’t discriminate, etc. They don’t want state governments telling them any of that stuff either. Currently, the Florida government doesn’t want to tell parents to keep their unvaccinated kids home from school because of the measles outbreak. What could possibly go wrong there?
And the main thing I’ve learned about people who hate government is that they don’t know how to govern.
And those people who hate government get themselves elected to village, town, and school boards. They don’t understand budgets. They don’t know how to run meetings. They don’t know how to achieve consensus. They are constantly angry. My town is a total mess right now, with board members yelling at each other, being in a constant state of financial crisis, having dysfunctional meetings that go on forever, etc. Even school board meetings in my neck of the woods have become a nightmare, with people screaming and shouting about books, courses, what teachers are teaching, etc.
So, if you really want to see a group of anarchists, go to a meeting of a local governing body in a MAGA community. They don’t want to raise taxes, even if the schools are broke, the fire department is broke, and the snowplow is broken. And forget about local zoning and other laws. They want to do whatever they want on THEIR property: shoot AR-15’s, drive loud dirt bikes around their yards for hours and hours, etc., no matter how it might affect their neighbors. They hate government.
And they are decimating public education in two major ways. First, they are starving public schools of funding. Here in Wisconsin, the state has redirected millions of dollars of public tax money to private, religious schools through voucher and choice programs. Second, local communities cannot increase property taxes to support their schools unless they get approval via public referenda, which are often voted down. This has led to chaos in many public school districts, dealing with fleeing teachers, book bans, lack of funding for 21st century buildings, etc. And they are electing educational anarchists to local school boards.
And don’t even get me started about how Republicans are trying to totally undermine our right to vote by creating chaos and doubt in our election system.
So the government funded schools and elections are purposely being thrown into chaos — anarchy — so that conservatives can fund their religious schools and eventually eliminate fair elections. And force all children to hold the same religious beliefs and have 99% of voters select an authoritarian candidate, like — communism.
Every time Republicans speak against Ukraine funding, Democrats should call them out for being — Communist Sympathizers. Don’t just say they’re empowering Putin. Every time Republicans fall into chaos in the House, Democrats should call them out for being — Anarchists. Don’t just say the House is in chaos.
Republicans. Communist sympathizers and anarchists. Period.