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Nov 10 2020 02:12pm
Quote (thundercock @ Nov 10 2020 02:05pm)
At the end of the day, Democrats are always going to be doomed from that point of view. Republicans lack self-awareness and are more susceptible to believing false equivalences. I mean look at the "children in cages" talking point. Trump weaponized this policy in order to actively discourage immigration. Republicans believe that they have the moral high ground because "Obama built the cages" even though that was a way to protect the children from the general population.

With the Ukraine scandal they believe that what Joe Biden did (actively promote US and EU foreign policy) was WORSE than what Trump did. At the end of the day, you can't beat stupid.



I don't think it's as simple as that. Republicans run on the government NOT working so it's better for them to obstruct as opposed to cut a deal. Fundamentally, conservatives seek to keep the status quo and it's a hell of a lot easier to say "no" than it is to come up with a viable solution. In addition, the coalitions are much more pronounced I think in the GOP. Democrats are more of a spectrum without a very clear divide I think.


when i was a kid the GOP was the moral highground party, but that was in a fog of religious morality vs Bill Clinton's cigar habit. in reality once u get through 5th grade level debunking of trickle down economics being pro-impoverished there isnt much morality in the entire party's platform. at least the dems try, even if they do fail miserably.
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Nov 10 2020 02:19pm
imagine believing that the corporate owned democrat's establishment was genuinely unhappy with the corporate friendly majority on the supreme court, lol.

sure, they might disagree with trump's activist judges on social issues, like abortion and religion, but the rest is all just political theatre. in fact, this is a dream scenario for the likes of pelosi and schumer: they don't have to actually DO anything that could anger their donors, while at the same time publicly clutch their pearls and lament there simply wasn't anything they could have done to change the predictable rulings regarding campaign financing, worker protection, healthcare, environmental protection, or any of the other issues that might come before the court and that the american people, across party lines, largely disagree with the washington establishment and the scotus majority on.

now they have even more ways of justifying their 'weakness' and inaction: packing the court would be "too radical" (ignoring how mcconnell and trump shattered every precedent to establish the current coalition against the people) / they wouldn't have the votes anyway (thanks to the usual suspect proving once more he's just a republican with the wrong label) / they are trying to reach out to republicans to make politics civilised again (no matter how often republicans directly spit in dems' faces whenever they have power, never returning ANY goodwill extended to them previously)... this is simply their role in this transparent little play, and they play it well - to the continued detriment of the average citizen, who also keeps being distracted by petty partisan hackery, so they don't realise who their REAL enemy is in all of this.
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