{"id":30376,"date":"2017-11-20T13:00:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T21:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30376"},"modified":"2017-11-20T13:00:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T21:00:14","slug":"the-reich-is-right-about-bullies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/20\/the-reich-is-right-about-bullies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reich is Right about Bullies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of course, I’m not referring to the Reich on the right, the Republican Reich.  They are virtually always wrong about everything.  I’m referring to the Reich on the left, Robert Reich.  Robert has a fascinating theory about why women are coming out and exposing their predators.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Why are so many women now speaking out about the sexual abuses they\u2019ve experienced for years? Is there anything unique about the time we\u2019re now living through that has encouraged them to end their silence?<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t help think their decisions are part of something that\u2019s happening throughout much of American society right now \u2013 a backlash against what has been the growing domination of America by powerful and wealthy men (and a few women) who came to believe they can do whatever they want to do, to whomever they choose<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab \u2018em by the pussy,\u201d said Donald Trump in the infamous 2005 Access Hollywood tape.<\/p>\n

Sexual assault is one obvious assertion of dominance. Other forms include economic bullying and the stoking of bigotry to gain political power.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trump epitomizes it all<\/strong>. As a businessman he stiffed contractors, used bankruptcy to avoid paying creditors, and wielded lawsuits to threaten critics. <\/p>\n

As a politician he gained traction by alleging Obama was born in Africa, Mexicans are rapists and murders, and Muslims must be kept out of America.<\/p>\n

As president, he has bullied everyone who disagrees with him \u2013 journalists, judges, members of congress, his own staff and cabinet. <\/p>\n

And he\u2019s bullied the vulnerable and innocent \u2013 \u201cdreamers\u201d who came to the U.S. as small children but could be deported because of him; the elderly and sick who may lose their health coverage because of him; the needy families who will no longer receive assistance because the the massive corporate tax cuts he\u2019s pushing will require cuts in programs they depend on…  [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Robert Reich<\/a>><\/font><\/p>\n

Click through to read the rest of this fine article.<\/font><\/p>\n

I think Robert makes an excellent argument, and because of it, I think we need to consider all forms of Republican bullies at the same level of depravity as GOP Perverts.<\/font><\/p>\n

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

Of course, I’m not referring to the Reich on the right, the Republican Reich.  They are virtually always wrong about everything.  I’m referring to the Reich on the left, Robert Reich.  Robert has a fascinating theory about why women are coming out and exposing their predators. Why are so many women now speaking out about […]<\/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-30376","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\/30376","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=30376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}