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> To some extend I hope that the Republican party wins the next election. They should be the ones fixing the economy, raising taxes, and doing something respons
by masklinn 20d ago
> To some extend I hope that the Republican party wins the next election. They should be the ones fixing the economy, raising taxes, and doing something responsible for once.
Why would you ever think they’d be interested in doing any of that? A non-insignificant fraction of the gop wants to collapse the US entirely.
- immibis2 20d agoAnd then nobody will vote for them ever again, and it'll be a utopia after the rebuild. Playing the long game.
- cindyllm 20d ago[dead]
- dctoedt 19d ago> And then nobody will vote for them ever again, and it'll be a utopia after the rebuild. Playing the long game. (Sarcasm noted.) There was a bitter joke about Islamist takeovers by elections after the Arab Spring: "One man [literally], one vote, one time."
- masklinn 19d agoTrump floated that trial balloon a few months back, though currently the administration is proceeding with the much more American plan of widespread voter suppression, intimidation, and bribery, if in the most ham-fisted and unconstitutional way possible.
- TheCoelacanth 19d agoGenuine question: I think making things worse to motivate later making them better is a relatively common idea. Are there any historical examples of it actually working well? To me, it seems more likely to concentrate power among people who don't want to make things better and make it easier for them to resist ever changing.