• ashok36@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Let them vote against it. Let them vote against all the popular ideas and see where that gets them.

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      See where it gets them? It gets them right where we are now, with them on the precipice of turning the country over into a russian style dictatorship with billionaire oligarchs and their bought politicians running little fiefdoms?

      Have you not being paying attention to how fucking enthusiastic a not-insignificant chunk of the country is for fascism and enshrining their teams power as dominate and eternal?

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        2 months ago

        tldr: Stop being blind in your tolerance. Start calling everything you see that is unjust and malicious out. Your freedom probably depends on it

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      Most republicans I know believe that their party, like their country and their religion, needs to be followed blindly; if their party supports it, it’s good, and if their party rejects it, it’s bad. End of story. No more thought will, or should, be put into it.

      The people who go on and on about how America is the best because “freedom” are now working out whatever mental gymnastics they need to perform to justify voting for the man who said if you vote for him you won’t need to vote anymore. They already chose to support Trump and his party - nothing they say or do anymore will change that decision.

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        It seems like republican voters deeply believe that their way is the “right” way and they’re willing to do anything to impose it on the nation in perpetuity.

        I’m sure most aren’t really comfortable with trump, but they’re willing to overlook his rough edges if he can establish a republican government.

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      2 months ago

      Let them vote against all the popular ideas and see where that gets them.

      That only works if people are paying attention.

      Increasingly, the general public are checking out of paying attention to the political circus.

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      They have been doing this for decades… sure, there was a time people just didn’t understand it. But they literally voted against cheaper insulin.

      I am not saying these bills should not be presented even if the Republicans will kill them, but the expectation that Republicans voting against thing that benefit the working class would eventually make their base shrink is a complete fallacy at this point.