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Author can't accept this is exactly what maga voted for. The republican base, against their own interests, have wanted to strangle every facet of the federal gov for as long as I've been alive. They just finally got the supermajority and a leader both dumb and lacking empathy enough to make it happen.
I agree. The Republican goal has been to dismantle the government for decades. Maga just pushed it over the line to actually happen.
There's a lot gone already.
They’ll cry later when they realize they broke what they will want later but destroyed.
MAGA: “destroy the government!” Also MAGA: “The government isn’t paying my social security and I can’t afford my medications!”
Reminds me of that video clip where some elderly karen told Obama at a townhall she didn't want the goverment in her medicare 😬
Expect a tidal wave of "I can't believe the Democrats did this to me" as that unfolds.
Nah, they'll still blame immigrants, transgender athletes and blue haired woke snowflakes until they die.
They're toddlers
Toddlers are usually quick learners.
& innocents
Yanks certainly aren't.
I don't think you understand what Yanks means
In my part of the world, it means "Americans"
Agreed, but that is a huge generalization to a large population. I am part of it, but I certainly don’t feel I have much influence in shifting political power to something that isn’t crazy and leaning authoritarian.
Do you have that kind of influence in your country?
My country had compulsory voting, which has prevented the crazies on the fringes, or predatory groups who pour money into the campaigns of politicians that they can control from rising to power
Our highest court has made sure that what you described by the crazies is how our government is controlled.
Oh, I know
America has always been a backwards, corrupt and hateful shit hole
The myth about how America came to be is lapped up by yanks, because they're indoctrinated from birth, and if they eventually learn the reality, it's rare for them to be able to think their way past a lifetime of propaganda
As opposed to every other European colony, that are totally at-grips with the genocidal horrors they inflicted on the people they displaced?
There you go, assuming that I'm European
There are lots of countries, all over the world who despise 'Murica
I was assuming you're Australian actually since you mentioned compulsory voting.
A yank is part of the northern states.
Its historically used by brits to refer to Americans in general.
That's fine. It also groups in confederates, which are the opposite of yanks. But whatever.
To the rest of the world, it's just another stupid 'Murican
We get the "Yankee" thing
We don't care though
You're all "yanks"
We know you're not all stupid and worthless, but too many of you are, and we wouldn't care, but' Murica makes their stupidity the rest of the world's problem
You're not much brighter, buttercup.
No see it's ok to generalize 300 million people as a cultural monolith this time.
It's always ok as long as its against Americans
There it is, that's the xenophobia used by right-wing politicians and corporate interests to divide the working class!
I agree. Also foreign idiots on lemmy
But they don't have a supermajority, they're short 14 seats in the Senate for that.
You are describing Libertarians. Yes, that was a sect of the Republican cult in the past, but now they are mostly fascist. Government social spending is bad, but they want military and law enforcement granted MORE power. They want people they don’t like to suffer and or die. Both over seas and domestically. Those are the morons. The rich want protection of their wealth and free reign over basically everything.
No, they’re describing Regan republicans. Don’t you remember how he deregulated everything? Told everyone “government is the problem”? And that if we didn’t tax the rich, the wealth would “trickle down” to the average American?
To this day there are still people who believe in this bullshit.
I'll be blunt, I've never actually met a libertarian by the definition of libertarian.
I found the easiest way to find out. Ask about gay marriage and abortion, they'll want them outlawed, want the government stepping in.
Libertarians were just Republicans who wanted to smoke weed, and now that Republicans are cool with weed they don't really have anything left.
I used to be a Libertarian. The first time I voted, I voted Libertarian down the line. I did grow up a Republican since I am a white male from a middle class background and it’s traditional for white males to be Republican in this country. However, like you said, I liked smoking weed and drinking, plus I hated cops and came to view war as a tremendous waste of money, resources and human life. My Republican upbringing had me believing that taxes were strangling the economy as well. So I figured gubmint bad. Republicans may say that too, but they love war and hate human rights when applied to people they don’t like. They want a “strong” government to hold down undesirables and conquer and control the rest of the world. Fascists. That is the difference. I’m very liberal now. I have lived through a lot of things in the real world and now realize that those veiwpoints are unrealistic and awful respectively.
Hey! I'll give you credit that sounds like you might have been one of the rare unicorns on it when you were one. Honestly with Republicans I've heard the same "hate cops" unless the cops are going after people they like then they love them. Republicans treat cops like soldiers, they say they support them... riiiiiiiiiiiight up until supporting them individually. But yea, definitely on the war front is a nice change of pace.
I agree on the unrealistic and awful... I in a lot of theoretical ways like the libertarian concept, I'm very much a "leave me alone" type, I just know too many that didn't have the support when they were growing up that if there is nothing to help them... it feels cruel to do the "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" mentality.
And I definitely understand where you're talking about on growing up and the expectations. I'm a white middle class guy, grew up in the area surrounded by confederate flags that is the exact area where "God and guns" is aimed at so expectations of me being a Republican. I just was raised by an old school bleeding heart liberal so like my dad and I talk I comment it's funny I'd hear "You'll be more conservative" as you get older and I'm over here going man... I was WAY more conservative when I was in high school and college.
freedom has slowly beaten democracy down
going to take something special to repair the institution