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Why do republicans seem so obsessed with making everything shittier instead of making an earnest attempt to fix some of our country's problems?
by draw_down 10y ago
Why do republicans seem so obsessed with making everything shittier instead of making an earnest attempt to fix some of our country's problems?
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- M_Grey 10y agoBecause that's where the money is.
- maxxxxx 10y agoI don't understand it either. Instead of voting 40 times to abolish Obamacare they could have introduced changes to make it better. Or if there are problems with some regulations they could improve them instead of just getting rid of them like they want to with Dodd-Frank.
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- mindslight 10y agoIf you actually want to know, each party markets to the grassroots concerns of the people in their audience. After they get in power, what they actually implement is the agenda of their corporate sponsors. If you want to understand the situation: 1. Try suppressing your immediate visceral reaction to issues that grassroots Republicans care about. Open your mind, tune into some decent red media, and ask yourself "what if there is some truth in this?" 2. Avoid being drawn into the groupthink that condones the actions of your own team as altruistic. Open your mind and ask yourself "what if there is some oppressive agenda behind this?" Unfortunately, you will have to find media from back when Democrats had power. Now that the other team is the aggressor and your team is the opposition, it will be impossible to perceive (your team is now only "fighting the good fight", as they lack power to implement their sponsors' policies). But my message goes equally for the red team as well, reversing the parties.
- pklausler 10y agoMaking everything shittier is the "pay back the plutocrats" phase of a reciprocating strategy that begins with "use funds from plutocrats to firehose hate-crazed medieval minds with lies so that they vote us in to work for the plutocrats".