News bits: Crossing the line, or already crossed?, etc.

Crossing the line?

In recent years, it seemed reasonable to think that elite Republicans would start openly attacking things like inconvenient truth, sound reasoning, democracy and civil liberties that God and/or the GOP disapproves of. Republican elites claimed they did no such thing, despite plenty of contrary evidence. That day has undeniably arrived, if it already hasn’t some years ago. Salon writes:

Michigan GOP candidate Tudor Dixon wants a new book ban: No divorced characters

With so many radical Republicans running for office across the country, there's been relatively little coverage of Tudor Dixon, the Trump-endorsed Republican nominee for governor in Michigan, who’s running against incumbent Democrat Gretchen Whitmer. .... She has described working women as having "lonely lives," declared a 14-year-old incest victim to be a "perfect" candidate for forced childbirth, and, unsurprisingly, backs Trump's Big Lie. During her debate with Whitmer on Tuesday night, Dixon accused Michigan schools of distributing "pornographic" books.

.... a Democratic PAC called American Bridge 21st Century dug up an audio clip demonstrating how expansive Dixon's views are when it comes to controlling what students are allowed to read. In it, she proposes that books featuring divorced characters are just too spicy for most kids.

Dixon complained that her daughter had checked out a book about having “two different homes” and how the very idea of divorce “caused an unnecessary anxiety.”

“Why was this something she was just able to pick up off the shelf?” Dixon inquired. She allowed that a kid whose parents are divorcing might find some use-value in such a book, but evidently believes all other kids should be kept blissfully unaware about this widespread social reality.  

Tudor Dixon’s unwillingness to explain the reality of divorce to her daughter sounds like it’s about Dixon’s own discomfort, not about her child's best interests. Unfortunately, she’s not alone.

It’s unfair to criticize Republicans or the Republican Party

After the attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband by an enraged, deranged radical right freak, RNC chairperson Ronna McDaniel complained about blaming Republicans: “I think that's unfair. I think this is a deranged individual, you can’t see people saying, ‘let’s fire Pelosi’ or ‘let’s take back the House’ is saying ‘go do violence.’ It’s just unfair.”

Unfair? No, it is not unfair. It is what one would expect. The Republican Party elites and their propaganda Leviathan have been openly arguing for violence against political opposition at least since Trump took over. Republican rhetoric goes way beyond let’s fire Pelosi or let’s take back the House. Ronna is a liar. Once again we are looking at shameless Republican lies, crackpottery and