The Republican Party National Convention, July 15th through July 18th, 2024
The Widening Polarization of the United States
Contrary to their rhetoric of “national unity”, the Republican Party is driving deep division across the United States.
- The “Archilles heel” of the Republican Party is their obsession with “building the wall” to keep “illegal migrants” from “sneaking” into the Unites States. In their “Right Wing” imagination, these “undesirable aliens” are drug dealers and criminals, who will also take away jobs from “Americans”.
- Bitter memories of Many Wisconsin voters, both Black and White:
A white police officer shoots a Black man 7 times in Kenosha, Wisconsin. In ensuing trial, the police officer is acquitted. Riots break out and destroy businesses in the central business district.
- In the middle of it all, Kyle Rittenhouse, shows up and shoots three men killing two of them. Once again, he is acquitted of all criminal charges on the grounds of “self defense”. Simply incredible!
- Enter Donald Trump
Wisconsin Papers: “He has been hailed as a hero. He has been feted by politicians, including Donald Trump. He has been compared to John Wayne as a symbol of law-abiding people fighting back against lawlessness. When he took a rifle to a protest over the earlier police shooting that left Jacob Blake paralyzed, Rittenhouse said his intention was to protect property against violence.”
- Since then, investigative mass media reporters have shown Kyle Rittenhouse in a Trump rally in Iowa, campaigning in the 2020 presidential elections.