{"id":91671,"date":"2020-02-25T05:41:27","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T13:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=91671"},"modified":"2020-02-25T18:41:57","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T02:41:57","slug":"op-ed-brutality-with-a-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2020\/02\/25\/op-ed-brutality-with-a-smile\/","title":{"rendered":"Op-ed: Brutality with a smile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Stewart B. Epstein<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>With the rise of the Far-Right and Radical-Right, we not only have the growth of Survival-of-the-Fittest Social Darwinism ideology in today&#8217;s national Republican Party featuring their desire not only to cut and reduce spending on all of the federal government social programs (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, and College Student Loans), but we also get their growing cold-hearted desire to abolish all of them.<\/p>\n<p>And along with this, we get what Alfred Hitchcock referred to as &#8220;Brutality with a smile.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An example of this was when Presidential candidate Donald Trump, during a televised Republican debate, literally mocked, made fun of, insulted, and humiliated candidate Carly Fiorina by saying &#8220;Look at that face!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I still find it hard to believe that any human being could have been so cruel, sadistic, and abusive as to humiliate another human being like that, especially an accomplished woman who has lost a child to drug addiction and who has had to experience having a double mastectomy. This woman has suffered greatly in life, and did not deserve to be abused and publically humiliated like that.<\/p>\n<p>But ultimately we are all held accountable and will be held accountable for how we have treated others in life.<\/p>\n<p>I have now completed my opening statement.<\/p>\n<h6><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">About the author<\/span>: Stewart B. Epstein is a retired college professor of sociology, social work, and psychology.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Stewart B. Epstein With the rise of the Far-Right and Radical-Right, we not only have the growth of Survival-of-the-Fittest Social Darwinism ideology in today&#8217;s national Republican Party featuring their desire not only to cut and reduce spending on all of the federal government social programs (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, and College Student [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1480],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}