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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf Republicans Were Smart, They'd Do Something That Would
ensure they win for many years to come. Something like Medicare for All, a very popular concept. But, they're not smart, so they won't do that. Instead, they'll stiff ordinary people with some sort of scam healthcare thing and lose lots of voters.
They're motivated by the wrong things, so they do the wrong things.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)unblock
(52,234 posts)Hah! They do it precisely so they can make loot the treasury and pass laws they could never sell honestly!
MineralMan
(146,311 posts)briv1016
(1,570 posts)50 state voter ID, end all early voting, "modernize" (paperless) voting and finally implementing "Authorized Poll Watchers."
Not what you had in mind?
RadiationTherapy
(5,818 posts)The important thing is to poke, jab, or hurt one's ideological rivals - not to improve quality of life.
MineralMan
(146,311 posts)We should work on capitalizing on that, I think.
RadiationTherapy
(5,818 posts)However, even if they were, I believe it was Hume (or Hegel - I only watch youtube vids about philosophy...hahaha) who said that beliefs come first and then we look for ways to rationalize second. Furthermore, one is unlikely to be able to change their own or others beliefs through rationalizing.
But we gotta do something....
11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)Repugs are voracious predators. They will be unable to restrain themselves in their zeal to enrich themselves and their backers, while fucking over the American people.
bowens43
(16,064 posts)gerrymandering
voter suppression
vilification of the press
stacking the courts with right wing extremists
etc
First Speaker
(4,858 posts)...he was totally evil, but a shrewd sonuvabitch. Today's GOP is simply too stupid and ideologically blinkered to consider it...
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,986 posts)There in lies the problem. I look at todays GOP as a bunch of overgrown frat boys.