Yes, and for that reason I've never voted for a republican in all my years of voting. And I never will. Back before Brown vs Board of Education it was a mistake in GA to have voted for the Democrats but I didn't know what I was doing. I still don't know much but voting for a republican nowadays is not only racist it's also ignorant and lacking in lovingkindness for all people. I could say more but I'll leave that to you, John, who say it so well. Yep!
Have you seen Grossman and Hopkins "Asymmetric Politics: Ideological Republicans and Group Interest Democrats"? It's a very good study of the way Dems and Repubs have evolved over the last 50 years. You can go back farther than that, since Dems' need to manage a fractious coalition of what pol. scientists call "policy demanders" led to Will Rogers' quip 80 years ago, "I don't belong to an organized political party. I'm a Democrat." It also explains why "Dems in disarray" crops up over and over again, no matter who's President or Speaker of the House.
As G&H found, the Democratic Party "fosters a relatively pragmatic, results-oriented style of politics in which officeholders are rewarded for delivering concrete benefits to targeted groups in order to address specific social problems,” while Republicans are more prone to “forge partisan ties based on common ideological beliefs, encouraging party officials to pursue broad rightward shifts in public policy." Accordingly, "Republican voters and activists are more likely than their Democratic counterparts to prize symbolic demonstrations of ideological purity and to pressure their party leaders to reject moderation and compromise."
Asymmetric Politics was published in Sept. 2016, and the GOP has gotten worse since then. Totally predictable, since Reps get into politics to own libs and chase AOC through the Capitol, while Dems get into politics to make the world a better place for everybody. It's hard to see where it ends.
The next step for the Republicans to give up on is simple - the Republic itself. If they can't run and control everything to their satisfaction, they will do everything possible to trash our laws, institutions, economy politics, etc. until everything collapses. This creates a chaotic environment like Afghanistan and Somalia where literal and political right-wing terrorists can run wild.
For example, the whole rhetorical effort by prominent reactionaries like Tucker Carlson and Ron Johnson (who very likely have been vaccinated themselves) to claim that the COVID-19 vaccines are deadly is designed to allow the virus to continue damaging the country. It's just a dressed up version of the whole accelerationist ideology that white nationalists and neo-nazis push for the country's downfall so they can create their white supremacist playground.
Make no mistake - they would rather burn down the country before sharing its political and economic resources. That's why they don't need to espouse any policies or serve the truth. It's just raw power or nihilism for them as their only choices just like the spouse who murders the children to spite the other spouse. This is why the GOP must be crushed if we are to save the Republic.
Yes, and for that reason I've never voted for a republican in all my years of voting. And I never will. Back before Brown vs Board of Education it was a mistake in GA to have voted for the Democrats but I didn't know what I was doing. I still don't know much but voting for a republican nowadays is not only racist it's also ignorant and lacking in lovingkindness for all people. I could say more but I'll leave that to you, John, who say it so well. Yep!
Have you seen Grossman and Hopkins "Asymmetric Politics: Ideological Republicans and Group Interest Democrats"? It's a very good study of the way Dems and Repubs have evolved over the last 50 years. You can go back farther than that, since Dems' need to manage a fractious coalition of what pol. scientists call "policy demanders" led to Will Rogers' quip 80 years ago, "I don't belong to an organized political party. I'm a Democrat." It also explains why "Dems in disarray" crops up over and over again, no matter who's President or Speaker of the House.
As G&H found, the Democratic Party "fosters a relatively pragmatic, results-oriented style of politics in which officeholders are rewarded for delivering concrete benefits to targeted groups in order to address specific social problems,” while Republicans are more prone to “forge partisan ties based on common ideological beliefs, encouraging party officials to pursue broad rightward shifts in public policy." Accordingly, "Republican voters and activists are more likely than their Democratic counterparts to prize symbolic demonstrations of ideological purity and to pressure their party leaders to reject moderation and compromise."
Asymmetric Politics was published in Sept. 2016, and the GOP has gotten worse since then. Totally predictable, since Reps get into politics to own libs and chase AOC through the Capitol, while Dems get into politics to make the world a better place for everybody. It's hard to see where it ends.
The next step for the Republicans to give up on is simple - the Republic itself. If they can't run and control everything to their satisfaction, they will do everything possible to trash our laws, institutions, economy politics, etc. until everything collapses. This creates a chaotic environment like Afghanistan and Somalia where literal and political right-wing terrorists can run wild.
For example, the whole rhetorical effort by prominent reactionaries like Tucker Carlson and Ron Johnson (who very likely have been vaccinated themselves) to claim that the COVID-19 vaccines are deadly is designed to allow the virus to continue damaging the country. It's just a dressed up version of the whole accelerationist ideology that white nationalists and neo-nazis push for the country's downfall so they can create their white supremacist playground.
Make no mistake - they would rather burn down the country before sharing its political and economic resources. That's why they don't need to espouse any policies or serve the truth. It's just raw power or nihilism for them as their only choices just like the spouse who murders the children to spite the other spouse. This is why the GOP must be crushed if we are to save the Republic.