I've been thinking a lot lately about the whole issue of lying and how normalized it has become within the GOP. Beyond compromising a number of core principles, heretofore deemed inviolable and supposedly what people teach their offspring not to do, it is a cautionary tale of how things get twisted when the end becomes so important that…
I've been thinking a lot lately about the whole issue of lying and how normalized it has become within the GOP. Beyond compromising a number of core principles, heretofore deemed inviolable and supposedly what people teach their offspring not to do, it is a cautionary tale of how things get twisted when the end becomes so important that the means no longer matter.
As long as Republicans feel that winning is more important than how the victory is achieved, and that any tactic is appropriate as long as owning the libs is the outcome, our republic will never be safe from their scheming, because there will never be any restraints placed upon how far they will go to obtain the desired results. It becomes a bottomless pit of deception and rewriting of truth to suit a purpose, and if bottom ever is reached, they will simply break out the shovels and start digging.
How sad that so much our society has allowed anger and hatred to become not just a mainstream approach to governance, but also an unlimited supply of rocket fuel to this end. I wish I could live long enough to read how future history books will judge this era, not to mention what it will lead to before the worm eventually turns, as it usually does, somehow, some way.
I think the GOP is down with believing whatever their base believes. What their base believes is heavily influenced by the bots and cyborgs of foreign adversaries.
This is so true. Republicans, at least in the past 75 years have had to keep their voters distracted because they have no policies to improve the lives of ordinary people. They are only concerned with keeping taxes low to make the rich more prosperous. Unfortunately today's GOP has taken this to new extremes with various phony crises such as CRT, gay "groomers", Antifa, the border, etc.
Because they know that trafficking in people's fears gets them both more attention and more votes than wonky policy statements -- less informed but more passionate voters. When was the last time that the GOP told us, beyond generalities, what they are for instead of what they are against?
I've been thinking a lot lately about the whole issue of lying and how normalized it has become within the GOP. Beyond compromising a number of core principles, heretofore deemed inviolable and supposedly what people teach their offspring not to do, it is a cautionary tale of how things get twisted when the end becomes so important that the means no longer matter.
As long as Republicans feel that winning is more important than how the victory is achieved, and that any tactic is appropriate as long as owning the libs is the outcome, our republic will never be safe from their scheming, because there will never be any restraints placed upon how far they will go to obtain the desired results. It becomes a bottomless pit of deception and rewriting of truth to suit a purpose, and if bottom ever is reached, they will simply break out the shovels and start digging.
How sad that so much our society has allowed anger and hatred to become not just a mainstream approach to governance, but also an unlimited supply of rocket fuel to this end. I wish I could live long enough to read how future history books will judge this era, not to mention what it will lead to before the worm eventually turns, as it usually does, somehow, some way.
I think the GOP is down with believing whatever their base believes. What their base believes is heavily influenced by the bots and cyborgs of foreign adversaries.
This is so true. Republicans, at least in the past 75 years have had to keep their voters distracted because they have no policies to improve the lives of ordinary people. They are only concerned with keeping taxes low to make the rich more prosperous. Unfortunately today's GOP has taken this to new extremes with various phony crises such as CRT, gay "groomers", Antifa, the border, etc.
Because they know that trafficking in people's fears gets them both more attention and more votes than wonky policy statements -- less informed but more passionate voters. When was the last time that the GOP told us, beyond generalities, what they are for instead of what they are against?