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Yeah no shit, conservatives want to "take over the country" just like liberals do, that has always been the goal. Water is wet.
This isn't supposed to be politics community, why is this here?
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I didn't know CHAZ was right wing. TIL.
Lol, says the liberals. Consider the source.
Literally every credible source?
And again, consider the source. Go back to sleep, kiddo.
Liberals dont want to "take over the country" they want to win elections. Big fucking difference.
What difference? Winning all the elections means you have taken over the country.
The difference is one wants to be in power because they have popular support the other wants to be in power because they have power.
Lookup independent state legislature theory as a recent example of how Republican politicians really don't care about democracy in the slightest.
Allowing yourself to think that one party is "good" and the other party is "bad" just feeds into their fiction that keeps the duopoly in place. Make no mistake; Democrats WANT Republicans there, then they have a Boogeyman to point at when they don't get anything done. And of course Republicans want the Dems there for the same reason.
Oh, I don't believe one party is good and the other is bad. I don't think any party is good.
What I know is that the Republican party is off the rails.
Do the Democrats have issues? Oh yeah.
But do they have systemic issues in their party to the point where they're throwing out their own house speaker for daring to come across the isle to keep the federal government open? No.
Has one party been trying to reduce gerrymandering which is pointedly for politicians and against the people? Yes, the Democrats, in many states (I'll give you New York was an exception to that trend). Meanwhile the Republicans in Ohio laughed at our state supreme court when it tried to enforce the intent of the 2016 (?) constitutional amendment requiring fair maps in the face of a completely partisan map.
Or what about that whole Ukrainian issue? Which party is trying to cut off or "reconsider" aid to a country butting up against some of our closest allies in eastern Europe? Ding ding ding, the Republicans. Which party's president got impeached for trying to extort Ukraine to help them in an election or else they wouldn't get weapons? Yup, that was Trump, a Republican.
Which party was Larry Householder, a now convicted felon for accepting a bribe a member of? Right again, Republican.
Which party wants to impose a national abortion ban on the county that can't seem to get medical professionals opinions through their thick skulls? Right again, the Republican party. And I'm not even talking about "abortion" I'm talking about "your wife is about to die unless they abort the baby." The Republicans, despite what they're saying, keep writing "no exceptions" abortion bans which, god forbid if your wife, sister, cousin, etc were ever in that position, they'd have the doctors let your wife die or send the doctor to jail for saving her.
Which party passed an infrastructure bill overhauling crumbling infrastructure to keep our roads, bridges, and power lines functioning along with improving an expanding rail transit and Internet access for rural communities? The Democrats. Which party failed? The Republicans. What did they do instead and what was their only major legislative accomplishment in four years? They passed a tax break that expired for the middle class (IIRC) this year while simultaneously passing a tax break for large corporations and billionaires with no expiration date.
It's not about some feverent following. It's about the Republican politicians being completely incompetent at governance.
An the award for oversimplification goes too
Lemmy is lefty. Lies, gaslighting, and generally evil shit us their bag.
How does Democracy's dick taste?
It doesn't fill my gut up the way your mom's does