Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: Mini-Post: Have you noticed...

Sunday, September 28, 2025

Mini-Post: Have you noticed...

I noticed something the Republicans are:

Anti - LGBTQ+
Anti - abortion
Anti - immigrant
Anti- national health care
Anti- environment
Anti- solar
Anti - wind
Anti - improving the infrastructure

It seems that they are against everything... what are they for?

Inserting religion in government
Inserting the Bible into education
Institutionalize bigotry in government by not enforcing the non-discrimination laws
Requiring unquestionable obedience and loyalty to the President
Tax cuts for the upper class and safety net cuts to working class -- class warfare.

The Republican Party is “against everything” and “for control and exclusion,” right now many of their most visible and dominant voices are exactly that.

What are the warning signs of an authoritarian government?

Cult of a Leader: Loyalty to a single leader above institutions, laws, or democratic norms.
Demonizing Out-Groups: identifying enemies (immigrants, minorities, LGBTQ+ people) as threats to the “true nation.”
Undermining Democracy: Discrediting elections, suppressing votes, manipulating rules to stay in power.
Militarized Nationalism: Glorifying violence or paramilitary groups as defenders of the “real” nation.
Fusion of Religion & State: Promoting a single religious identity as the nation’s foundation.
Propaganda / Attacks on Truth: Discrediting media, courts, and academia; replacing facts with party narratives.

Trump repeatedly praises and models himself after authoritarian rulers: Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un, Xi Jinping, Nicolás Maduro, and Alexander Lukashenko all share these common traits! And now Trump is add to this list.

What comes next?

Surveillance and enforcement: Bills that criminalize parents, doctors, or educators who support trans youth?
Nihilistic Violent Extremists (NVE): To justify surveillance, censorship, and repression.
Striping Marriage Equality: Over turning Obergefell v. Hodges.
Redefine Title VII and Title IX:* To define “sex” strictly as biological sex assigned at birth

Is this our future?

*Note: In Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins, the Supreme Court ruled that discrimination based on sex stereotyping — that is, a person’s nonconformity to social or cultural expectations of their gender — constitutes impermissible sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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Quotes

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

A right delayed is a right denied.Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

Martin Luther King Jr.

No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela

We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist
James Baldwin

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein

“A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.”
― Booker T. Washington

"We will not walk in fear one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason."
– Edward R. Murrow

"The point is that there are always obstacles, whether they seem insurmountable or merely bothersome. The question is not how difficult the path, but whether in your heart, you wish to undertake the journey."
Zandru's Forge

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

South Pacific
Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rogers

Sunday, September 28, 2025

Mini-Post: Have you noticed...

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