Chickens Coming Home to Roost

 

Google AI: "The chickens come home to roost" is an idiom that means the consequences of bad actions, mistakes, or wrongdoings will eventually return to negatively affect the person who did them. It's like a natural law or karma where you reap what you sow. 

The literal part of this concept is not lost on me. My grandparents had a general store and we had chickens for eggs and sale at the store. Chickens do come into the barn (chicken house) in the evening to roost (sleep).  A sure evening eventuality as the idiom states.

This past weekend the HuffPost lead was, "HORROR: LAWMAKERS ‘TARGETED’ AT HOME… MORE NAMED IN MANIFESTO - MASSIVE MANHUNT FOR SUSPECTED ASSASSIN.

When hate speech is the order of the day, what do you expect to happen?  Both parties are at fault. There is no common goal to improve America. Only "my way is the only correct way".  This is not governance but cult mind control provoking inflexibility and violence. Are we not all Americans with one constitution, and one common goal?  

Politico: Harvard political scientist Steve Levitsky, who co-authored the book “How Democracies Die” in 2018, said: "You condone the January 6 insurrection. You pardon them all, or virtually all of them, including those who physically assaulted police officers, and you treat them as heroes. You’ve created an atmosphere that’s not just permissive of political violence, it encourages political violence.”

Trump states about migrants: 

“... criminals.” “Illegal monster.” “Killers.” “Gang members.” “Poisoning our country.” “Taking your jobs.” “The largest invasion in the history of our country.”

This is not true according to the Marshall Project. The fact checking site states:  "Research has shown that as someone hears a statement more times, it feels more true [even if untrue]."

Is it just Trump? 

In September 2016, during a fundraising event, Hillary Clinton described half of Donald Trump's supporters as belonging to a "basket of deplorables," specifying that she saw them as "racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic".

According to GLADD: "Anti-LGBTQ hate speech, harassment, and disinformation — ranging from overt bigotry to dog whistles — cause real harm to LGBTQ people and to society as a whole. The invention of false tropes (often via memes) is a common trend in extremist hate and disinformation, serving as an effective viral strategy for the spread of all kinds of conspiracy theories."

The anti-LGBTQ “groomer” trope (and similar baseless and dangerous rhetoric falsely asserting that LGBTQ people are pedophiles, sexual predators, and threats to children) is dangerous hate speech which has been popularized to foment fear and hatred, and ultimately violence, against LGBTQ people — specifically targeting them in direct violation of the hate speech policies of all social media platforms.

Even when disguised as news (Fox/CNN) or talk podcast, hate speech is stoking the fires of extremism. This will provoke the CRAZYS to react.

It is time for reasonable rhetoric and words befitting intelligence; not hate.