Messaging again. How Biden can hit a nerve in fence sitting voters updated 12/26/2023

Biden can make the contrast that he is about hope and Trump is about with some simple words like Hope v Hate and Help vs. Harm,.Healthy democracy v Havoc and fear. Hope is a word that has worked well for candidates like Obama and Carter (the man from Hope). Chaos, revenge, and oppression are not positive promises for any one trying to cope with the daily demands of life. The challenge question put to those considering still voting for Trump is what good is he going to do for you and your lives?

 In spite of demonstrating an enormous amount of vigor and effectiveness in getting stuff done, casual observers are still giving the thumbs up to Trump, and it seems to be getting worse as Biden's approval dips below 40%. Biden has failed to communicate how a Trump victory would hurt the lives of so many. He has accentuated his positives and hoped Americans will see the negatives independently.  The problem is that not enough Americans have drawn the contrasts on their own because they only listen to news outlets in their comfort zones that distort and report one side's views.   Part of the effectiveness of such one-sided media is to paint the other side as fake or immoral or lapse into cynicism that everyone and everything in politics is BS, lots of noise that has nothing to do with their own lives.  Biden needs to break through media silos that only present viewpoints that are critical to him or to reach a public that is neither focused nor caring about how they would be harmed in their own lives by a Trump victory. But how?  Biden needs to rephrase how a Trump/MAGA would hurt individuals in their personal lives in his negative message while reminding them of what Biden/Democrats would help.  He has begun to make that contrast, but he has failed to bring it down to the level of daily, self-interested life of non-Maga; those among the other 60 percent who are unalarmed and turned off of news chatter who don't understand it could be a lot worse for them personally if Trump and MAGA win.

  The irony is Trump's public policy plans for his second term only have the support of 40% of voters.  Biden's too old, he's too feeble, etc., yet Biden has delivered while his presumed opponent beats his golf-swinging macho chest with dangerous plans to harm the self-interest of all but those loyal to him.  That is where we are and in spite of Biden's efforts, he has a long way to go, time to do it, to ring the chimes of the 60% potential.  The GOP has provided enough fodder and rich material to do it, but to put it has not through to non-MAGA voters.  MUFTIC FORUM BLOG: We are no longer a 50-50 nation but a 60-40 one on public policy issues

First, Biden needs to give up on those who are an estimated 30 to 40 percent who are probably a lost cause, listening only to a few pro-Trump media outlets and have closed minds for whatever reason or non-reason.

Second, Biden needs to make the campaign about more than just the two combatants.  It is not only about Biden v Trump.  It is also about the extremist MAGA movement as a whole up and down the ballot. It is about all of the other MAGAs who would be swept into power from the White House and federal administrations down to the state houses and local election officials. Note: The attack is against everyone who identifies as a Republican but the MAGA movement/Trump.   

Third, challenge voters to think about how a Trump presidency, or even a MAGA-dominated government, would hurt their own personal lives.:Do it with a series of questions, followed by how Biden/Dems second term instead of a Trump second term would do differently, and use current examples of such attempts or plans from MAGA/Trump own mouths. These are also Biden rally/response platform questions. Here are some challenge questions.

MUFTIC FORUM BLOG: What Trump plans for his second term and how he

Do you want elected men to make medical decisions about childbearing or some federal government to do it, too? MAGA does.  They want a federal law to ban abortions and be just like Texas is now.

Do you want elections and processes to be controlled by MAGA loyalists?  They are using the lie that the 2020 elections were stolen to give reason to do this, though, after 3 years of trying, they cannot prove it.

Do you want Obama care you may have or the sense of security you can afford health insurance if you lost employer insurance repealed? MAGA does.

Do you want a government to deny licenses to media deemed not loyal to Trump? Trump does.

Do you want protests put down by active military, tanks, etc? Trump says he will invoke the insurrection act on day one to enable to be on the ready to do it, and he will fire any military brass who objects. 

Do you want federal civil service employees replaced with MAGA loyalists? Trump and the Heritage Society already have funding and a plan to do that beginning day one.

Do you want federal laws to tell you who you cannot love or marry?  MAGAS do.

Do you want Trump to rip up the Constitution? Trump: Constitution should be terminated due to "massive" election fraud (axios.com)

9 out of 10 Republicans silent on Trump's calls to terminate the Constitution - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (citizensforethics.org)

After each question, Biden should confirm his contrasting position and if necessary, repeat when, who, and what ..

Updated: 12/26/23

Biden still has to make the case he will deal with unfinished business that helps ordinary people with their future, not only addressing student loans, border chaos, and leading the free world but also protecting their freedoms that Trump et all who would take away from them. Those include women's choice over their healthcare, the sanctity and ability to vote and have their votes counted, their ability to gather to address grievances, and laws that apply to everyone, not just a few Trump favors.. (That is called "democracy", but we forget what that means to be able to have a voice in our governance. ) He should also say he cannot do it alone. He needs a willing Congress, not one dominated by MAGA. It is not just drawing a contrast of past actions with what Trump promises for the future, but that Biden's past and future plans give hope and promise for the future instead of hate, conflict, and an aristocracy/dictatorship that would destroy hope for a better future or a future that represents MAGA's oppressive and hate-motivated attempt to take away the freedoms and rights you have taken for granted.. until now. "Now" means these freedoms are not forever and would be lost if Trump had his way., using the power he would give himself.

MUFTIC FORUM BLOG: What Trump plans for his second term and how he

From my December 16 posting: A word to those on the left from one who is hardly viewed as right-wing on civil rights and domestic issues. This initiative from the extremists on the right has nothing to do with the immorality of war; it is a political strategy to give them more power and an anti-democratic ideology. Playing their game of Putin love/isolationist/ appeasement will only lead to the possibility of getting ourselves involved in a hotter, wider war, not with a proxy like Ukraine, but actively ourselves. If we reduce our defense budget by the 10% Ukraine is costing us, do you really think the savings will be applied to domestic social programs instead of reducing taxes on the rich?    Do not be played.  The reason we are in this position now is because of a power-mad hyper-nationalist Putin, determined to recreate an empire they lost in ending the Cold War. Putin’s plan for a new Russian Empire includes both Ukraine and Belarus - Atlantic Council 

 

Sander's rebuttal to Biden's State of Union . 2/12/23 promoting divisive "cultural values"

Revised and updated: 2/12/23

 I have seen something very troubling lately. In this kickoff season to 2024, the GOP wants voters to choose culture over pragmatic problem-solving public policy considerations since cultural issues they support are all good stuff that means "freedom." The position of the right wing that now controls the GOP is that cultural issues are now being promoted as a  political platform to offset Biden's bipartisan legislative success aimed at helping improve the middle-class standard of living. It is that bipartisan and Democratic platform they vow to overturn, from infrastructure to diabetes medicine and health care affordability. More troubling than that attack on Biden's successful agenda is the GOP  promoting cultural issues as an official platform. They begin by twisting the meaning of freedom as a hook to consolidate political support for their cultural platform initiative. This approach was a strategy attempted by Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders in the GOP rebuttal to Biden's State of the Union Address. 

  In the GOP rebuttal to Biden's State of the Union Address,  Sanders defined freedom regarding cultural issues. The issues she calls freedom are dear to the belief system of certain Christian evangelicals. Hers is a twisted definition of freedom, a word usually referring to being free from government control, which she turned upside down to mean freedom for fellow believers, but not for others, that is coupled with the use of government power to promote and enforce specific cultural rules of which they approve. Her view is the "normal" one, she said, and the other view is held by "crazies," she asserts, revealing a sensitivity to charges by opponents that the insane are now running the asylum in the House of Representatives and the Republican party.    The GOP tools to spread this form of "freedom" from government control are the use of dictation by the government itself of media content and school curriculum and the official, governmental banning of such practices as the right to choose. Among those banned are rights to express honesty about personal sexual identification.  The GOP is not about more government "hands off" of individual freedom, but more government control limiting individual freedoms. Sander's rebuttal vowed to advance her twisted view of cultural freedom that increases government control of the thought and speech of others who do not share religious ultra-conservative ideals.      Her definition of freedom is far from the normal one held by those on the more libertarian left she now calls "crazies." She shrilly proclaimed, "your freedoms are being attacked by the radical left. They are the crazies; we, the GOP, are the normals,"  That is a sales pitch only the choir to which she was preaching can readily buy.  

Sanders also promoted the concept of the GOP supporting the new generation of leaders. One wonders if she referred to herself as a younger person who is now eligible. She was ironically promoting ideas that were already old hat in the MAGA world, some of which accounted for the poor GOP showing in the midterms. This appeared to be a slap at both candidacies of Trump and Biden in 2024. In reality, it was in lock step with Florida's Gov. Ron DeSantis' implementation by government action and policy of "don't say gay" speech, school book banning and curriculum control, and anti-choice initiatives.   The left began the culture wars, Sanders proclaimed, not the right, in a revisionist view of current events. These culture wars have been simmering for a long time. Still, the spark that set off the hotter culture wars was the overturning of 50-year-old Roe and a reactionary right-wing crusade to use the government's reins of power to enforce and roll back any gains in civil, women's, and gay rights. These religious and cultural conservative activists like Sanders saw government as protecting too much freedom, and in reality, they have launched their strategy to roll back freedoms as a party platform.

What is wrong with the promotion of cultural values as a political party's platform?. The values included in those promoting cultural conflicts today fly under the radar disguised with a variety of buzzwords, all of which push back on rights that have been won after long struggles by those who have not been favored by the majority-dominating government and demographics. It is more than just a clash of values. This route foresees a likelihood of future conflicts that could become destructive of domestic tranquility.   Economies can not flourish during civil conflicts and turmoil. This is not the legacy I want to leave for my children and grandchildren.  The more hopeful view of constructive cultural values is that a  majority of people are still choosing: the accommodation and power-sharing route, which will benefit all. We have a choice of which road to continue following.

 What are examples of the buzzwords of current advocates of bigotry-based cultural issues?. Some we hear are "Anti woke",  "don't say gay speech and teacher rules," anti-transgender athletes and bathrooms, .anti- public self sexual identification by LGBTQ people, and book banning.  anti-CRT ( a trumped-up bogeyman, not taught except to graduate level students), and political suppression at the ballot box of suspected opponents miss -named "voter integrity".  Some hate-driven concepts are not even thinly disguised, such as blaming some Jewish conspiracy for woes. "Jews, black people, will not replace us" is the slogan of neo-Nazi activists, but "replacement theory" is supported by more than just neo-fascists. White nationalism is even supported by some Congresspeople.   Such divisive crusades in the name of Christianity ironically fly in the face of the message of Jesus and make a mockery of the Golden Rule, yet white Christian nationalism has many open adherents. 

One racially divisive issue has been police reform. The Tyre Nichols death at the hands of Black police officers in a Black-dominated police force has had the effect of taking the Black Lives Matter/Defund Police advocacy out of the bucket of strictly racially biased issues.  Police brutality is now a separate issue from racial one since it is a problem facing law enforcement of both races.  Biden's strong opposition day one to the slogan "defund police" has eclipsed the GOP's earlier outrage at the term.

 https://www.axios.com/2022/02/26/marjorie-taylor-greene-white-nationalist-event

Deep Divisions in Americans’ Views of Nation’s Racial History – and How To Address It | Pew Research Center

Once again Colorado provides fodder for anti gay Supreme Court decisions

 https://www.politico.com/.../scotus-lgbtq-gay-rights...Colorado is once again the test case on whether a private company serving the public can discriminate and refuse service based on a religious belief that disapproves of LGBTQ people. Our state has been in this situation before regarding a cake maker who got success from this theocratic-inclined Supreme Court's religious conservatives. Supreme Court rules for Colorado baker in same-sex wedding cake case | CNN Politics This recent case brought by a business who wants to deny a printing service to LGBTQs is different because it challenges a Colorado anti-gay discrimination law. Thd plaintiff's contention is that she is an artist offering e commerce printing and her artistic freedoms are being infringed. It is an issue that is a thorny one with consequences reaching far beyond anti-gay bigotry to the rights of anti-non evangelically subscribed persons. We saw it in the majority of the newly comprised evangelical majority court overturning Roe v Wade. Will this lead to any more successful attempts to approve discrimination against those evangelicals who disapprove on theological grounds? Targets could include Muslims, Jews, atheists, and, in the case of evangelicals, also promoting white nationalism, black or brown people? The precedent of another court decision supporting the right for private businesses serving the public to discriminate against fellow citizens based upon religious beliefs will have unintended consequences, losses in their adherent candidates in elections as happened in 2022, Congress passing legislation (as it did in upholding gay and interracial marriages as a federal right), and it will give impetus to the attempts to enlarge a Supreme Court that is seen out of step with 60 to 70% of the American views on specific public policy issues, such as a women's right to choose and marriage equality. Court decisions appear to be made that are not based on the interpretation of the rule of law but on the religious beliefs and biases of the majority of the Justices. What becomes clear is that the separation of church and state and the Constitution forbids the establishment of a state religion. This principle established in the first amendment comes into conflict with an attempt by evangelicals to use the government to force others to adhere to their most ultra-conservative religious beliefs. They even support the use of police forces and the application of law to treat non-conformers as criminals (as is embedded in many anti-roe v wade extreme laws in many states the Supreme Court decision just enabled).

I have no problem with faith leaders extolling their beliefs or with their followers or converting others to adhere to their belief systems in their personal actions. However, forcing others who are in the majority and holding a differing opinion to comply by using governmental and political powers is not supporting American democracy but supporting a theocracy. I laud the action of the Mormon Church to recognize the principle that they do not approve of same-sex marriage as a religious doctrine, but they acknowledge that others have a right to believe and act otherwise in civil life. Mormon church voices support for same-sex marriage law | AP NewsThat is preserving the freedom of religion and civil rights, both. It also shows the confidence of a religious institution in its ability to succeed without having laws and police to act of morality police spread compliance with faith on its behalf.

I had an interesting e exchange with a close friend from another country regarding the civil rights of minorities. She is from a country in Europe where 90 percent of the population subscribes to Catholicism or some form of Christianity, and racial minorities are less than 10% of the population. Many countries in Europe and especially in the Balkans, have had bloody wars to eliminate ethnic a religious minorities with whom they disagree. Those political forces at work are rooted in centuries past. In that case, should the civil rights of those minorities be protected, and should the majority have the responsibility to do so? These countries do not have a multi-cultural, multi-religious population or a secular-based constitution like the US. For the sake of civil peace, the value of honoring civil and human rights should be above and beyond ethical and ideological reasons. Until now, human rights have been the principle that the US has led the world by providing an example of attempting to become a more perfect union. Until now, that has raised the issue of human rights as a worthy value around the world. Whether we continue despite the standard of supporting improving civil and human rights in our country in spite of our failures and victories is

under attack from evangelical theocrats. Protection of a minority's civil rights should not mean the minority has police and legal power in government to suppress others' civil and human rights, but that religious minorities and majorities have the same rights to peacefully protest freedom to preach, speak, convert, and organize.

The irony or the intention of these LGBTQ rights attacks is that Colorado is the hotbed of these challenges to whether religious adherents can discriminate against those they disapprove in their private business because of religious reasons.

Colorado has been at the forefront of acceptance of LGBTQ rights. Our governor, who just won a landslide re-election, is the only openly gay governor in the US. In addition, he is married and a parent in a same-sex marriage which is not only recognized as a protected right in Colorado but now, due to recent Congressional action, will have federal legal standing.

Update 12//7/22

The gay haters are getting organized in Colorado to bring their intolerance to Colorado public schools. School board members, be warned and ready. Colorado is not fertile ground, unlike southern states. Voters here have your backs.

A New Conservative Group Uses Anti-LGBTQ Sentiment to Attack Colorado Public Schools (coloradotimesrecorder.com)

Thank the Pilgrims who began America’s quest for religious freedom updated November 27, 2020

A version of this was publlished in the Sky Hi News, 11/20-21/2018

https://www.skyhinews.com/news/opinion/opinion-muftic-thank-the-pilgrims-who-began-americas-quest-for-religious-freedom/

Summary:

The Pilgrims got the ball rolling but it was only the beginning. They saw freedom of religion freedom from a government run religion that persecuted them. It was not freedom for others...but after the colonies provided a rocky start of hanging heretics and hunting witches, the Constitution gave all of us freedom of religion. Application of that First Amendment is still a work in progress.

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This Thanksgiving we should give our thanks to the Pilgrims who have become an icon of what made the New World so unique in the civilizations that preceded them.. They left England and the old world to seek freedom to practice their own religion, free from a government backed state religion that oppressed them.  It was a beginning.  There was a rocky road ahead to laws guaranteeing religious freedom for everyone, not just one group.

 Some colonies adopted laws with limited forms of freedom of religion while others established state sponsored religions, hung heretics, and launched witch hunts.  Pennsylvania and Virginia   had enacted their own laws effectively protecting freedom of religion. The Constitution authors adopted those concepts in the First Amendment, ““Congress shalll make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." Congress  later passed  civil rights and hate crimes legislation that protected religious practitioners and punished those who interfered with their practice.

So, disconcerting in 2018 is that many seem to have forgotten the lessons leaned from experience, traditions, and history. So heartening in the 2018 midterms is that many more Americans rejected an Oval Office leadership condoning and even promoting hate and fear of “others”, including Donald Trump's attempted immigration ban of anyone who was a Muslim, .

In 2016 this country had given the reins of power to Donald Trump whose soaring oratory appealed to the worst of human nature. He set the example. It was alright to be uncivil, no longer to be politically correct, to denigrate and disrespect’ others”, especially people of color and women, and to express such feelings publicly. His inflammatory words have continued in rallies and tweets to this day.

 While protected by the Constitution, words of hate have deadly consequences. That was brought home shortly before the 2018 midterms by the Pittsburgh Synagogue massacre. While Donald Trump did not target his hateful words toward the Jewish community, he tolerated and promoted intolerance. Our President opined about the neo-Nazi demonstrators in Charlottesville in 2017 that there some were “fine people” among them. The tiki torch bearing marchers shouted anti-Semitic slogans in German while raising arms in the Nazi salute.  

 An atmosphere of permissive hatred does not confine itself to specific targets.  It is infectious and even if originally unintended, it can spread to harm other targets, including religious ones. In 2017, the year after the election of Trump, the FBI reported a 37% spike in anti-Jewish hate crimes over 2016, and the Anti-Defamation League found the number of anti-Semitic incidents, mostly vandalism, was nearly 60 percent higher in 2017 than 2016, the largest single-year increase on record.

 Alt- right conspiracy theorists and Trump friendly media inspired the Pittsburgh synagogue killer. The shooter posted on his social media that a Jewish immigration group was bringing in immigrants to kill “his people”. Reviving references to the international Jewish conspiracy theories, other alt right proponents claimed a wealthy liberal Jewish-American-immigrant philanthropist, George Soros, was funding the “caravans” of central Americans storming our southern border. Numerous fact checkers found that false. Others before had claimed Soros paid “mobs” of women protesting the confirmation of Judge Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Fact checkers: Soros paid none of the demonstrators. Last week In Baltimore, attendees of the performance of Fiddler on the Roof, the musical about Russian persecution of Jews, were still on edge from the mass killing in Pittsburgh. They panicked when a man in the audience shouted, “Heil Hitler, Heil Trump”, fearing it signaled another anti-Semitic mass murder attack. Fortunately, no one was hurt running to the exits. The man apologized later, said he was trying to compare Trump to Hitler but said it the wrong way, and he had been drinking before the performance and claimed protection of free speech. Note: The Supreme Court ruled many years ago shouting fire in a crowded theater is not protected speech. (Schenck v United States: Oliver Wendell Holmes crowded theater reference)
________________________________________________________________________________2018 rulings by the Supreme Court  concerning  freedom or religion set no precedents that altered the underlining intent of the First Amendment or related laws.

The “muslim ban”, halting practitioners of one of the world’s greatest religions from entering the US simply because of their religious affiliation, was rejected by the courts, requiring a total rewrite of rules to comply by those facing extreme vetting to enter the US, now based on selected countries that harbor terrorists and not all had a Muslim majority . It was even retitled as a "travel ban"
 https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/26/supreme-court-rules-in-trump-muslim-travel-ban-case.html

If the tilting of the Supreme Court to the far right indicates that henceforth "religious freedom" means those who open the doors to the public can now discriminate against doing business with those of whom their religion disapproves, the answer should be nationwide and local boycotts of merchants who "exercise their religious freedom" to violate the rights of others. Nothing like causing them to lose the almighty buck to make a point. For those who oppose discrimination against any group, and especially the LGBTQ community and their supporters, it is in their right to use their freedoms to inform the community and to support those who are friendly to all and welcome their business. There are many more who do not discriminate than the narrow-minded holier than thou intolerant who do.

POLITICO.COM

Major shift at Supreme Court on Covid-19 orders

The Supreme Court voted 5-4 to bar New York state from reimposing

The Supreme Court recently ruled in favor of a cakemaker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple because it violated his religious beliefs...however, the ruling set no precedent because it based it on the specific  hostility of the Colorado Civil Rights Commission. https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/04/politics/masterpiece-colorado-gay-marriage-cake-supreme-court/index.html
Kim Clark, the Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to a gay couple because of her religious beliefs, spent jail time over it in 2015 and was defeated in her attempt to be re-elected in 2018. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/26/supreme-court-rules-in-trump-muslim-travel-ban-case.html

A number of Evangelical Christian ministers have recently proclaimed that the US is a "Christian nation".  It is not a state one per the Constitution, nor is the Evangelical brand of Christianity (full disclosure..I am a Mainstream  Protestant Christian) even the majority of the population.  Per a recent Pew Research study, Evangelicals are 25% of the population.  http://www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/

Evangelicals have had an impact, though, in exemptions of  employers providing ACA coverage of reproductive rights based on religious beliefs, first in the Obama administration and more so   under the Trump administration. The battle yet to be fought is over further proposed  restrictions on  birth control  insurance accessibility coverage. https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/fact-sheet-religious-exemptions-and-accommodations-for-coverage.pdf     https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/17/us/politics/trump-birth-control.html
Roe v Wade will also face challenges in the very conservative tilt in the Supreme Court    As a public policy regardless of religious affiliation, 71% of Americans polled oppose overturning Roe v Wade, https://www.wsj.com/articles/record-71-of-voters-oppose-overturning-roe-v-wade-1532379600
and 72% support birth control as basic health issue    https://powertodecide.org/about-us/newsroom/new-polling-shows-strong-support-for-birth-control-basic-part-womens-health-care
The backlash to religious restrictions on reproductive rights was palapable in 2018. The womens' marches and demonstrations against  confirmation of pro life anti birth control Justice Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court and the doubling of the women gender gap to 19% of the voters were certainly contributors to the Democrats turning the House blue.

Right wing attempts to get around the separation of church and state issue in the funding of education have not gotten far. Once again Colorado was the focus when the Douglas County School Board thought issuing vouchers to students to attend any school of their choice, including a faith based school, was rebuffed by the Colorado Supreme Court. https://www.denverpost.com/2015/06/29/colorado-supreme-court-rejects-douglas-county-voucher-program/   Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump's secretary of education has long been a supporter of tax payer money funding faith based schools through vouchers , and has set about issuing executive orders to chip away at the regulations forbidding public funds for religious schools. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/09/us/politics/betsy-devos-religious-christian-education-federal-aid.html

 Following US right wing efforts to alter the protection of freedom of religion,   in Europe and South America forces desiring to persecute and discriminate against  religious  minorities are raising their ugly heads. In Brazil, a fascist government was just elected, vowing to turn that country comprised of centuries of immigrants and native population, into a Christian nation.  In Europe a long list of countries electing very right wing, anti- Muslim immigrant governments are being elected to political leadership. http://www.pewresearch.org/topics/restrictions-on-religion/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion#United_States

https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/anti-semitic-incidents-surged-nearly-60-in-2017-according-to-new-adl-report

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-ci-hippodrome-follow-20181116-story.html

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/14/opinions/fbi-hate-crimes-data-whats-missing-berry-wiggins/index.html

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/22/fact-check-trumps-claims-migrant-caravan

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/10/robert-bowers-suspected-synagogue-shooter-believes-migrant-caravan-is-jewish-conspiracy.html

https://www.thedenverchannel.com/newsy/factchecking-the-suggestion-george-soros-paid-kavanaugh-protesters

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/28/us/gab-robert-bowers-pittsburgh-synagogue-shootings.html
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/documenting-hate-new-american-nazis/

If the tilting of the Supreme Court to the far right indicates that henceforth "religious freedom" means those who open the doors to the public can now discriminate against doing business with those of whom their religion disapproves, the answer should be nationwide and local boycotts of merchants who "exercise their religious freedom" to violate the rights of others. Nothing like causing them to lose the almighty buck to make a point. For those who oppose discrimination against any group, and especially the LGBTQ community and their supporters, it is in their right to use their freedoms to inform the community and to support those who are friendly to all and welcome their business. There are many more who do not discriminate than the narrow-minded holier than thou intolerant who do. .

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Major shift at Supreme Court on Covid-19 orders

The Supreme Court voted 5-4 to bar New York state from reimposing