Turned Upside Down!

Standing the Republican party on its head! The new Trump Republican party is everything the old Republican party wasn't. The Trump Cult has turned the Republican party on its head, they are for government telling businesses how to conduct their business, they are for telling doctors how to treat their patients, and they are telling us what we can say or do.

Once the party of small government and big business, the GOP has turned upside down
First Read is your briefing from "Meet the Press" and the NBC Political Unit on the day's most important political stories and why they matter.
NBC News
By Chuck Todd, Mark Murray and Carrie Dann
April 7, 2021

 

 

 For decades, the Republican Party stood for limited government, free enterprise, free expression and local control.

But look what has changed inside the GOP and within the conservative movement since Donald Trump’s presidency:

•     Republican Govs. Ron DeSantis of Florida and Greg Abbott of Texas have signed executive orders preventing private businesses from requiring Covid vaccination passports from customers.
•     Conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas recently took issue with social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook banning Trump after he spread falsehoods and misinformation about the 2020 election.
•     Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has always championed political contributions as free speech, told corporate America to “stay out of politics.”
•     Arkansas’ GOP-dominated legislature — overriding the veto from Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who called it “too extreme” — enacted a treatment ban for transgender youth.

And as we wrote yesterday, GOP-controlled legislatures in Georgia, Texas, Iowa and even Michigan have passed or drafted bills curtailing the authority of local election officials and elected secretaries of state.

Since then it has only gotten worst.

 

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They are trying to groom us out of existence as a result bias crimes are increasing with their green light.

In states with laws targeting LGBTQ issues, school hate crimes quadrupled
The Washington Post
By Laura Meckler
March 14, 2024

School hate crimes targeting LGBTQ+ people have sharply risen in recent years, climbing fastest in states that have passed laws restricting LGBTQ student rights and education, a Washington Post analysis of FBI data finds.

In states with restrictive laws, the number of hate crimes on K-12 campuses has more than quadrupled since the onset of a divisive culture war that has often centered on the rights of LGBTQ+ youth.

At the same time, calls to LGBTQ+ youth crisis hotlines have exploded, with some advocates drawing a connection between the spike in bullying and hate crimes, and the political climate.

LGBTQ+ students have long dealt with bullying and harassment at school, but some students are feeling particularly vulnerable due to the wave of legislation. They are also on edge following the death of Nex Benedict, a nonbinary teenager who died after a fight in their Oklahoma public school bathroom. The death was ruled a suicide, according to a one-page summary report released Wednesday by the state’s chief medical examiner.

With a wink and nod the schools are looking the other way when it comes to violence against us in Republican states.

The Post analysis found that the number of anti-LGBTQ+ school hate crimes serious enough to be reported to local police more than doubled nationwide between 2015-2019 and 2021-2022. The rise is steeper in the 28 states that have passed laws curbing the rights of transgender students at school and restricting how teachers can talk about issues of gender and sexuality.

In more-liberal states that have not enacted restrictive school LGBTQ+ laws, The Post found that the rise in FBI hate crimes was lower - though the absolute number of crimes was higher. Analysts said that may be because people in those states are more likely to report incidents.

There is your direct correlation between legislation and bias crimes!

The National Institute of Health’s website PubMed has a research paper about the targeting of the LGBTQ+ community, their conclusion…

Our findings largely support our research hypotheses. LGBT people have higher rates of hate crime victimization than non-LGBT people (H1), particularly hate crime motivated by anti-SOGI bias. The results show that LGBT people face many varied types of hate violence. We further find that a greater percentage of LGBT victims of hate-motivated violence to say that the bias-motivation was sexuality or gender compared to non-LGBT victims of hate-motivated violence.
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Similarly, the Rainbow Youth Project, a nonprofit that offers crisis response and counseling to at-risk LGBTQ+ youth, saw calls to its hotline rise from an average of about 1,000 per month in 2022 to just over 1,400 per month last year. The top reason cited by callers in 2023 was anti-LGBTQ+ “political rhetoric,” such as debate over laws and policies limiting rights at school.

The evidence is there, the Republicans pogrom against is causing the rise in bias-motivation crimes.

The rise was even steeper in states that have enacted laws or policies which restrict LGBTQ+ students’ education or rights at school - tripling from an average of about 28 per year from 2015-2019 to an average of about 90 per year in 2021-22. There was also an upsurge in the states without these laws, from about 79 reported hate crimes per year to 140.

While here in Connecticut legislators have proposed funding for an advertising campaign prevent and combat hate crimes, a statewide marketing campaign on hate crimes, including social media posts, billboards, television spots, and other effective marketing methods.

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace writes in “The Rise in Political Violence in the United States and Damage to Our Democracy,”

The consciously propagated false narrative regarding election theft is directly linked to the growing support for violence on the right. Those who believed the election was fraudulent were twice as likely in Kalmoe and Mason’s survey data to endorse a military coup and were more likely to justify armed citizen rebellion.5 Of the 9% of Americans who agreed that “force is justified to restore Trump to the Presidency” in a separate University of Chicago survey in June 2021, 90% believed Biden’s presidency was illegitimate.6 Throughout 2021, a time during which the Bright Line Watch organization found that 73-74% of Republicans felt that President Biden was not the rightful winner of the election, a separate 22,900 person poll found that almost 1 in 5 among Republican men claimed that violence was justifiable “right now”.

The Republican party knows that the rhetoric they rallies their base to get and vote on election day. It is all about power and to satisfy Trump’s narcissistic tendencies.

 

The Post article ends with,

“This culture of hostility and division has been festering, especially for the last three years, and its ramped up more and more each year,” Max said. “The school board has made it very clear we’re not welcome here. It’s very clear they don’t want us to exist.”

Some of the comments on Yahoo News about this article are disgusting!

Maybe these "hate crimes" are a result of people getting sick and tired of an agenda being shoved down their throats with the threat of being punished if they don't comply?

Progressive policies forced on a free people seem to provoke violence.

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After turning the young lady into a martyr based on made up facts it will be a long time before I believe anything out of some outlets. Nex was a bully and took her own life. Stop the charade, the truth has come out and the media has mud on their face.

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 I have a solution. go back into the closet. problem solved. I don't want to know about your private  life, and you don't need to know about mine.

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I asked the AI Perplexity: “Compare the rise in bias crimes between Democratic states and Republican state?”

And the AI answer was…

Based on the search results provided, there appears to be a stronger correlation between the passage of anti-LGBTQ legislation in Republican-led states and a subsequent rise in bias crimes targeting LGBTQ individuals, compared to Democratic-led states:
Key Findings:

•     In states that have passed laws restricting LGBTQ+ student rights and education, school hate crimes targeting LGBTQ+ people have quadrupled compared to states without such laws. These restrictive laws have predominantly been passed in Republican-controlled states.
•     The number of anti-LGBTQ+ school hate crimes serious enough to be reported to local police was more than four times higher on average per year in 2021-2022 in states that have enacted restrictive LGBTQ+ laws, which are primarily Republican-led states.
•     The FBI's 2022 hate crime statistics showed a 19% increase in anti-LGBTQ hate crimes nationally, with a 35% rise in hate crimes motivated by anti-transgender bias. This aligns with the passage of numerous anti-LGBTQ bills in Republican-controlled state legislatures.
•     Research has found that LGBTQ people are 9 times more likely than non-LGBTQ people to be victims of violent hate crimes, and LGBTQ hate crime victims experience more severe negative impacts.

In contrast, the search results do not indicate a similar correlation between Democratic-led states and rising bias crimes targeting LGBTQ individuals. The data suggests the hostile political rhetoric and discriminatory policies enacted in Republican-controlled states are creating an environment that emboldens individuals with violent tendencies to target the LGBTQ community, especially transgender people.