Republicans Already Are Demonizing Democrats as Socialists and Baby Killers

New York Times ^ | February 18, 2019 | Sheryl Gay Stolberg

[EdnaMode]

In the 116th Congress, if you’re a Democrat, you’re either a socialist, a baby killer or an anti-Semite.

That, at least, is what Republicans want voters to think, as they seek to demonize Democrats well in advance of the 2020 elections by painting them as left-wing crazies who will destroy the American economy, murder newborn babies and turn a blind eye to bigotry against Jews.

The unusually aggressive assault, which Republican officials and strategists outlined in interviews last week, is meant to strangle the new Democratic majority in its infancy. It was set in motion this month by President Trump, who used his State of the Union address to rail against “new calls to adopt socialism in our country” and mischaracterize legislation backed by Democrats in New York and Virginia as allowing “a baby to be ripped from the mother’s womb moments before birth.”

Then last week, Republicans amped it up, seizing on a Twitter post by a freshman representative, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, which even some Democrats condemned as anti-Semitic, and ridiculing the “Green New Deal,” an ambitious economic stimulus plan unveiled by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a self-described democratic socialist. Suddenly even Jewish Democrats were abetting anti-Semitism and moderate Democrats in Republican districts were Trotskyites and Stalinists. “Socialism is the greatest vulnerability by far that the House Democrats have,” Representative Tom Emmer of Minnesota, the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, said in an interview, adding that he had also instructed his team to spotlight “all the extreme wild ideas” that Democrats espouse, “on a daily basis, on an hourly basis if it’s available.”

[RinaseaofDs]

I’m not sure what she’s complaining about. When you partially pull a baby out that if you kept on going would be a viable human being, and instead you execute it, you just killed a baby. Hence, baby=killer.

Conservatives aren’t the ones doing the killing, we’re just pointing out the obvious.

Someone on this forum also pointed out, in the case of the People’s Soviet of Washington State, that you don’t have a choice when it comes to a vaccination - you MUST have it. When it comes to an ABORTION, it’s ‘Our bodies, our choice’.

Funny old world.

[Kudsman]

Democratics are demonizing themselves by their actions. Act like socialists and baby killers then feign outrage when anyone notices. It’s a mental disease.

[Chode]

so you aren't denying you are Socialists and baby killers...