The Name Game

What’s In A Name?

June 11, 2021

Ratpublicans like to troll Democrats by saying the ‘Democrat’ Party, when they know that Dems refer to themselves as the Democratic Party. You have never heard a Democrat refer to the not-so-loyal opposition as the Republic Party. The opposition party does not like to call the Democratic Party by its actual name because they don’t want it to seem like one party is democratic and one is not. If Ratpublicans really want to stop people from having that impression, they should stop proving on a daily basis that it is true. As it turns out, one party actually is democratic and the other is not.

It’s In The Name

Only one party – the party of disgraced Richard M. Nixon, who had to quit in order to avoid inevitable impeachment, the party of George W. Bush who had to be appointed by the Supreme Court and whose VP Dick Cheney outed a key CIA operative for revenge, while lying America into an illegal war – spawned a president who with malice aforethought instigated the attack on the Capitol. Only one party supports this man and the radical white terrorists who carried out the attempted coup. Only one party’s senators voted in numbers sufficient to squash the formation of a bipartisan commission because it would likely expose their complicity in the horrific assault on the Capitol on January 6^th. Only one party is trying – literally and figuratively – to whitewash the entire sordid episode…emphasis on white.

The “Black Wall Street” section in flames during the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921

Joe Biden, the first American president to show up in Tulsa, Oklahoma to commemorate the horrific crime against humanity – the bombing of Greenwood, which was known at the time as Black Wall Street. It took one hundred years for a president to acknowledge this (one among many, as it turns out) gruesome unprovoked attack. 

Can you imagine if the last guy was still president (I hope not)? If he did not simply ignore the historical moment, he would have bragged about his amazing victory, blamed the inhabitants of Black Wall Street, and threatened to do it better this time.

Biden told those gathered, “We do ourselves no favors by pretending none of this ever happened or doesn’t impact us today, because it does.” He added a warning about how far we have not come, “terrorism from white supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today. Not Isis. Not al-Qaeda. White supremacists.” 

Remember when Republicans were apoplectic about the unwillingness of Democrats to inflame racial tension by branding the perpetrators of 9/11 as radical Islamic terrorists? Why can’t today’s Republicans say the words that need to be said now? Radical. White. Terrorists. These traitors carried out the worst attack on our democracy on our own soil. By our own citizens. They are Radical White Terrorists. Say their name.

Republicans really have trouble with names. And reality. And democracy.

It cannot be said too often: not all Republicans are white supremacists, but all white supremacists are Republicans.

And now, a message from Mitch McConnell:

I. Mangrey testifying.