In February, Dante Atkins of the Daily Kos attacked the GOP as the "Rapeublican Party" becuause they're all about "punishing women for daring to have sex."
On Monday, the Daily Kos has circled around to that smear all over again. The Kosmonaut known only as "Otto" insisted on hammering the "Blame the Victim" party when it came to sexual assault:
The GOP is officially the "Blame the Victim and Spare No Punishment" Party. Describe to them the plight of a single teenage mother, and the answer is inevitably going to be something like, "Well, she should think before she acts," or "Don't have sex if you can't handle the problems!"
The gyst of a comment like that really boils down to "She gets what she deserves." And really, they seem to think that the negative impact of her situation on the rest of the community around her is irrelevant. The bulk of the Republican party now holds fringe beliefs. This fringe conservative party is now the party of punishment. All actions deserve punishment.
If you were to present a story of rape told by a woman, the bulk of Republican voters would be most inclined to doubt the story of the woman. They seem to automatically assume that the woman is guilty of some crime of inaction or perhaps she even could be considered to have actively solicited the treatment.
That's another way of saying that she deserved what she got. She was punished for her actions.
It's the way they differentiate between supporting the death penalty and opposing abortion. The reason they can be 'pro-life,' but still support the death penalty is that the prisoner did something bad, and therefore the prisoner deserves the punishment of death.
“Otto” felt conservatives felt this way about wealth and poverty, using the straw man that “There is no poor person who doesn't deserve to be poor, and there is no rich person who doesn't deserve to be rich,” and then he turned to the idea of punishing the Occupy Wall Street protests.
They are the Party of Punishment. The bulk of them would love to see the firehoses and rubber bullets, the tear gas and bean bag guns, and the riot shields and the batons be brought to bear on the Occupy Wall Street protests.
