{"id":29573,"date":"2017-09-24T12:18:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T19:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=29573"},"modified":"2017-09-24T12:18:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T19:18:21","slug":"8-republican-scapegoats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/09\/24\/8-republican-scapegoats\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Republican Scapegoats"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are few things that Republicans do well, but at those things, they excel.  They keep their sheeple thoroughly fleeced and begging for more.  They are pros at stealing wealth from the poor and middle classes and giving it to billionaires.  And they are expert at projection, placing blame for their own crimes on opponents.  Here are some of the scapegoats Republicans target.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Republicans have a way of relying on scapegoats when their plans don\u2019t work out as expected. There are so many go-to GOP scapegoats, it would be impossible to name them all here. I\u2019m sure many of you have your favorites: Black Lives Matter, the EPA, feminists, climatologists, Islam, income taxes, Michael Moore, Hillary Clinton, and anybody who ever says the words \u201cgun control." If you can name it, they can blame it.<\/p>\n

In no particular order, here are eight of the GOP\u2019s favorite scapegoats.<\/p>\n

1. Transgender people<\/h6>\n

It\u2019s no secret that the GOP is the antithesis of queer-friendly, and the latest arm of this prejudice is aimed at the transgender community. Widespread attention to the issue came in 2016, when North Carolina Republican governor Pat McCrory signed a statewide policy that bans people from using public bathrooms<\/a> that do not correspond to their biological sex. Similar bathroom bills are being proposed in Texas<\/a> and elsewhere across the country<\/a>. Most recently, Trump signed an executive order effectively banning transgender service people from serving in the nation\u2019s armed forces, in an ostensible effort to minimize unnecessary medical costs and interpersonal confusion and disruption. You know, it\u2019s for \u201csafety.\u201d And Making America Great Again.<\/p>\n

2. Planned Parenthood<\/h6>\n

Millions of low-income women depend on Planned Parenthood\u2019s medical services, from pap smears and birth control to cancer screenings and abortion services. The organization has been demonized by the GOP in recent years for facilitating the transfer of fetal tissue for medical research<\/a>. While Trump has effectively defunded Planned Parenthood for a year<\/a>, what\u2019s most concerning now is that a bill making it easier for individual states to defund PP is also a priority of the Trump administration. Naturally, this work reverses President Barack Obama\u2019s effort to shield Planned Parenthood\u2019s funding from state legislatures<\/a> before his last term ended… <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I shared two of eight of Republicans’ favorite scapegoats.  Click through for the other six.<\/font><\/p>\n

RESIST THE REPUVLICAN REICH!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are few things that Republicans do well, but at those things, they excel.  They keep their sheeple thoroughly fleeced and begging for more.  They are pros at stealing wealth from the poor and middle classes and giving it to billionaires.  And they are expert at projection, placing blame for their own crimes on opponents.  […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}