For the Republican-fascists who installed a guy who was a regular and violent drunk who smeared a Woman as a slut in his high school yearbook claiming, apparently falsely and without her knowledge (until after the dope supported him), that he'd screwed her, who is very credibly accused of sexually assaulting and two Women, one in front of witnesses, the other trying to rape her with a drinking buddy, and which totally supports a confessed, serial sexual assaulter as the president* to try to shame the young,wonderful and brilliant Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with a video in which she does a very chaste and clean dance while she was in college is more than disgusting.
I have never been much on dancing but even I smiled when I saw AOC dancing on the rooftop - dancing very well - in the college video. It made me happy.
This is part of a clear Republican game plan of vilifying, especially, Women, to create a vague negative feeling about Democratic Women with an effective percentage of the largely uninformed population. I wish I had kept a list of younger people who knew they didn't like Hillary Clinton but, when you asked them why, they couldn't tell you why, they just knew it. It has been an ongoing effort with Hillary Clinton, now that we know the criminal acting-AG is continuing the smear campaign at taxpayers expense over her e-mails. I would love an accurate accounting of how many tens of millions of dollars Republicans have spent trying to find something they could indict Hillary Clinton on because it's going into its third decade now and they've found nothing. The last figure I recall was $40,000,000, and that was a long time ago.
Hillary Clinton is, certainly, the most certifiably INNOCENT American citizen in the history of the country. Certainly the most investigated and they have yet to indict her on anything.
The Republican Smear-The-Women campaign has targeted Elizabeth Warren, Maxine Waters, Frederica Wilson * . . . . and now Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
It's time to call this what it is, an organized, planned use of misogyny in exactly the same way that Republicans have used racism all along. It is time to shove it in the face of all Republicans but, especially, Republican Women as Black Republicans should have to answer for their remaining in a party which is the foremost vehicle of racism in the United States. I think the Democratic Party should research this because I'm sure they have some kind of planning, probably doing market-style research to see who to target and what lies and lines to use. I'm sure scum like the Mercers and Murdochs finance it and there are probably hints as to which firms are doing the research for them. Expose this as the media campaign that it is.
* That lying scumbag John Kelly should never appear on the media without someone asking him if he's ready to admit he lied about Congresswoman Frederica Wilson. He is, I'm sorry to say, typical of a kind of Boston Irish racist and a coward. A real man of substance wouldn't have lied and even one of marginal honor would have apologized after being exposed as a liar, especially in the context in which he lied about her.
As a GOP strategist supposedly said, the GOP looks like a 2960's board meeting; the new Democrats in the House (women of diverse backgrounds) look like the future.
ReplyDeleteI have to say this time feels a lot more like the future than even the last time the Democrats took back the house. I hope the Republicans are stuck with the ever diminishing racists and misogynist base they've got, though too many of them are also female, white and college-credentialed.
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