It Is Happening Again!

Do you remember the pictures of the Nazi burning the books, well another eastern European country if banning our books.

Hungary adds new restrictions on sale of LGBT-themed books
AP News
August 7, 2021


BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s government on Friday ordered booksellers to place children’s books that depict homosexuality in “closed packaging,” the latest move in an escalating campaign that rights groups have decried as an assault on the LGBT community.

The order also forbids the public display of products that depict or promote gender deviating from sex at birth, and bans the sale of all books or media content that depict homosexuality or gender change within 200 meters (650 feet) of a school or church.

The decree came after Hungary’s parliament passed a law in June forbidding the display of homosexual to minors, a move that was seen by critics of the country’s government as an attempt to stigmatize lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.

Hungary’s right-wing populist prime minister, Viktor Orban, says the measures - which were attached to a law that allows tougher penalties for pedophilia - seek only to protect children.

This is not good.

Not at all.

This is how fascist’s dictatorships are started.

This is what the right-wing Republicans dream of. You think that I am exaggerating?

Guess who went over and met Viktor Orban? Why is none other than Tucker Carlson!

Conservative Fellow Travelers: Tucker Carlson Drops In On Viktor Orban
This week, the talk show host has been in Hungary, where Prime Minister Viktor Orban hopes to set up an ideological center for a global conservative movement.
New York Times
By Benjamin Novak and Michael M. Grynbaum
August 7, 2021


BUDAPEST — It’s been a meeting of conservative fellow travelers: a jovial host — who heads an authoritarian government bent on targeting liberal institutions, including universities, the judiciary and the media — and his American guest exchanging grins.

In a week in which he broadcast nightly from Budapest, the American talk show host Tucker Carlson posed for pictures with and interviewed Hungary’s authoritarian leader, Viktor Orban, and took a helicopter to inspect a Hungarian border fence designed to keep out migrants.

The visit by Mr. Carlson, the top-rated host on the Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox News, bolsters Mr. Orban’s mission to establish Budapest as an ideological center for what he sees as an international conservative movement.

For Mr. Carlson, the Hungary trip was an opportunity to put Mr. Orban, whom he admires, on the map for his viewers back home, a conservative audience that may be open to the sort of illiberalism promoted by the Hungarian leader. On Wednesday’s show, Mr. Carlson praised Hungary as a “small country with a lot of lessons for the rest of us.”

I tell you the goal of the Republican party is to establish a Fascist theocracy. Their actions speak louder than words.

Exhibit #1: “The Big Lie” undermining the election process.
Exhibit #2: The closing of voting places in Democratic districts.
Exhibit #3: Restrictive voter ID laws.
Exhibit #4: Putting up barriers for absentee ballot.
Exhibit #5: District gerrymandering.
Exhibit #6: Supporting right-wing white supremacists militias.
Exhibit #7: Packing the Supreme Court with religious conservatives.

Taken one at a time it doesn’t look sinister but on the whole…?