Trump and Supporters: Take Responsibility for Pittsburgh

In an article in The Atlantic, Adam Serwer describes how Trump's lies and creation of hysteria about the "caravan" headed to the United States from countries south caused the Pittsburgh gunman to shot and kill 11 people yesterday at a synagogue. 

"As for those who aided the president in his propaganda campaign, who enabled him to prey on racist fears to fabricate a national emergency, those who said to themselves, “This is the play”? Every single one of them bears some responsibility for what followed. Their condemnations of anti-Semitism are meaningless. Their thoughts and prayers are worthless. Their condolences are irrelevant. They can never undo what they have done, and what they have done will never be forgotten."

But of course, from the top of the hierarchies they create, these Republicans will not take responsibility for their actions, and feel they never have to. 

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/caravan-lie-sparked-massacre-american-jews/574213/?fbclid=IwAR175SQmLes1oioKS8cPPvOVde35-KNlYEuLkfRJGrbNORJnVVLGlfarx7k

League of Women Voters are Communists, According to GOP

The Kansas City Star is reporting that Missouri Secretary of State Kris Kobach has called the League of Women Voters a Communist organization, along with the ACLU. His comments came at the state G.O.P. convention.

The top of our hierarchies are becoming farther and farther out on the see saw as more and more people are supporting equality in the United States, exerting mass on the opposite side of the hierarchy conservators. In order to stay in the game, Republicans as the strongest supporters of hierarchies, have to move farther out to compensate.

They are losing it. Getting closer to the end and falling off.

https://www.kansascity.com/latest-news/article61850332.html?fbclid=IwAR10JOC_xR2g7du-pojl720ewl8n-zpYj3NKkuC3i7OQECkxLNct_XeLAXc

Starbucks: First Signing Store

Actress Marlee Martin was on hand on Tuesday as Starbuck opened its first U.S. "Signing Store" in Washington D.C. Customers can order in American Sign Language.

Deaf baristas wear specialty aprons featuring "Starbucks" in sign language.

The store is located near Gallaudet University, the world's only university designated to educate deaf and hard of hearing students.

https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/412779-starbucks-opens-first-signing-store-in-dc?fbclid=IwAR30tu7r2Zj9bwgQ2JCX9ygvDH1u-Avh7OYjbKB4EtKYOvQn5r7y3yJGoGE

Evangelical Women - Following Their Dictated Lower Roles

"There exists a generation of women who were never taught consent ― and I’m not talking about Boomers. I’m talking about the hundreds of thousands of us who were raised in church and came of age at the turn of the millennium.

"In our world, we were taught that our bodies didn’t belong to ourselves. God owned them, they said, but really, that meant that men owned them. Our fathers. Our pastors. Our husbands. Our politicians. Never ourselves."

Control women by convincing them that men have to controlling their bodies. The God they create is a man on top of a hierarchy. Then women vote for such a man, and support men who control women's bodies, and do with them what they want in order to remain on top of the power in gender hierarchy.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/brett-kavanaugh-evangelical-women_us_5bb3a28de4b0ba8bb211985b

Hierarchy Supporters Keep Trying to Push More Resources Their Way

In hierarchies, lower people are expected to send their resources to the top, and the top is not responsible for how their actions affect those at the bottom.

With record deficits, the GOP is proposing to make a change by expecting lower groups to send even more resources to the top, even though it is the lower groups who generate the economy that allows the top groups to thrive.

Don't stop sending more money to the top by cutting taxes over and over to the rich. Instead, make lower groups who generate the money pay more. Cut Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, according to the GOP.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-deficit-highest-six-years_us_5bc545ece4b0a8f17ee4c5d6?ncid=engmodushpmg00000003

Hierarchical President Addresses Group Who Work Against LGBT Rights

President Trump will be the first sitting president to address the Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit, which the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) described as a “rogues' gallery of the radical right.

SPLC President Richard Cohen told The Independent, “By appearing at the Values Voter Summit, President Trump is lending the legitimacy of his office to a hate group that relentlessly demonizes LGBTQ people and works to deny them of their equal rights.” Trump is speaking at a rally of glorified hate speech.

“Family Research Council believes that homosexual conduct is harmful to the persons who engage in it and to society at large, and can never be affirmed. It is by definition unnatural, and as such is associated with negative physical and psychological health effects.”


https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-speak-anti-lgbt-hate-groups-annual-event-first-president-683927?fbclid=IwAR0-_ry_oioAE6v8g_ogKkLRWSVP1tBfhoDdRVckTD_mOc3GQtG-RzkMEIw

Taylor Swift Breaks Political Silence

Today Taylor Swift broke her career-long silence on politics to state that the record of the Republican Marsha Blackburn "appalls and terrifies" her. She instead endorsed former Democratic Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen in their race for the U.S. Senate.

“I always have and always will cast my vote based on which candidate will protect and fight for the human rights I believe we all deserve in this country,” Swift wrote. “I believe in the fight for LGBTQ rights, and that any form of discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender is WRONG. I believe that the systemic racism we still see in this country towards people of color is terrifying, sickening and prevalent.”

One can only speculate if the recent Kavanaugh hearings and confirmation influenced Swift, because of her highly publicized 2017 case of sexual assault against her.

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/410338-taylor-swift-breaks-silence-on-politics-supports-democrats-in

Republicans - Maintaining their Hierarchies are their Highest Priority

With their actions around the Kavanaugh hearings, Republicans have given us a very clear view of hierarchical moves we can expect from top groups in power. Here are a few from the list of 40 on pages 14-17 on the book Everybody Jump Together you can download for free from this website.

- Push back when someone tries to hold them accountable. As accountability comes closer to the top, they will respond with ever-increasingly drastic measures.
- See themselves as unfairly attacked when labeled with typical top attitudes and behaviors such as bigots, misogynists, fascists, homophobes, etc. 
-  Require lower groups to release their resources and decision-making rights to the top.
- Use lies, deceptions, misconceptions, ridicule, and rationalizations to justify thier isolated, selfish, or clueless opinions and actions.
- Think they have a choice whether or not to deal with, or listen to, lower groups.
- Describe their stance as merely another point of view,when it is  much more - a mechanism to build hierarchies that benefit themselves.