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Southern Poverty Law Center: Republican Party Is Now A Hate Group
http://www.occupydemocrats.com/2016/02/18/southern-poverty-law-center-republican-party-is-now-a-hate-group-2/In a report released today the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announced officially what has repeatedly been made plain to anyone who listens to the demagogic crop of Republican presidential candidates: the GOP has become the nation’s leading advocate for right-wing hate, and their rhetoric is fueling a dangerous rise in hate groups. The SPLC’s annual report on domestic extremism released today found that right-wing hate and anti-government organizations grew by 14% last year to some 1,900 individual groups.
And, crucially, the SPLC identifies the divisive hate-fueled rhetoric of the Republicans as a key source of increasing right-wing extremism; while the ranks of right-wing groups grew significantly after president Obama’s election, their numbers had been on the decline in recent years until demagogic fear-mongering racists like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz seized the mainstream stage to exhort the Republican base to turn on such convenient scapegoats as Muslims and Mexicans. As SPLC President Mark Potok put it, “We have real enablers in the political mainstream who are helping the ideas of the radical right grow. We are living in an era of incredible political irresponsibility.”...
The relationship between the Republican Party and right-wing hate groups is certainly a two-way street, so that just as the candidates encourage the rise of right-wing terror groups, the rhetoric of the extreme right is increasingly adopted by the mainstream GOP and thereby normalized, usually under the insidious banner of “fighting political correctness.” Prominent Republicans have thus come to advocate such ridiculous right-wing conspiracy theories as vaccines causing autism, global warming being a Chinese plot, Common Core being a plot of socialist indoctrination, the US Army planning to invade Texas, NAFTA being a guise for the merging of the United States with Canada and Mexico, President Obama being a foreign Muslim, sustainable development being a plot to eliminate golf courses, the UN planning to take over American territory, and Planned Parenthood being a cartel that harvests and sells baby’s organs....
And, far from a theoretical danger, the rise of right-wing extremist groups that Republicans are facilitating is in fact a grave threat to Americans. 2015 was the deadliest year for domestic terrorism since the Oklahoma City bombing, with at least 52 Americans falling victim. Though you wouldn’t know it from the media and politicians’ incessant fear-mongering focus on radical Islam, 86% of Americans killed by terrorists since 9/11 were the victims of right-wing terror. Right-wing terrorists have killed over 350 Americans since 9/11, while Islamic terrorists have killed 89.
And, crucially, the SPLC identifies the divisive hate-fueled rhetoric of the Republicans as a key source of increasing right-wing extremism; while the ranks of right-wing groups grew significantly after president Obama’s election, their numbers had been on the decline in recent years until demagogic fear-mongering racists like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz seized the mainstream stage to exhort the Republican base to turn on such convenient scapegoats as Muslims and Mexicans. As SPLC President Mark Potok put it, “We have real enablers in the political mainstream who are helping the ideas of the radical right grow. We are living in an era of incredible political irresponsibility.”...
The relationship between the Republican Party and right-wing hate groups is certainly a two-way street, so that just as the candidates encourage the rise of right-wing terror groups, the rhetoric of the extreme right is increasingly adopted by the mainstream GOP and thereby normalized, usually under the insidious banner of “fighting political correctness.” Prominent Republicans have thus come to advocate such ridiculous right-wing conspiracy theories as vaccines causing autism, global warming being a Chinese plot, Common Core being a plot of socialist indoctrination, the US Army planning to invade Texas, NAFTA being a guise for the merging of the United States with Canada and Mexico, President Obama being a foreign Muslim, sustainable development being a plot to eliminate golf courses, the UN planning to take over American territory, and Planned Parenthood being a cartel that harvests and sells baby’s organs....
And, far from a theoretical danger, the rise of right-wing extremist groups that Republicans are facilitating is in fact a grave threat to Americans. 2015 was the deadliest year for domestic terrorism since the Oklahoma City bombing, with at least 52 Americans falling victim. Though you wouldn’t know it from the media and politicians’ incessant fear-mongering focus on radical Islam, 86% of Americans killed by terrorists since 9/11 were the victims of right-wing terror. Right-wing terrorists have killed over 350 Americans since 9/11, while Islamic terrorists have killed 89.
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With this line running through Trumps mouth:
SPLC's Intelligence Report: Amid Year of Lethal Violence, Extremist Groups Expanded Ranks in 2015
View it here: https://www.splcenter.org/news/2016/02/17/splcs-intelligence-report-amid-year-lethal-violence-extremist-groups-expanded-ranks-2015
Well done SPLC!
