The Republican Party is drifting not further to the right, but further from the real.

[kpete]

A pattern has emerged in Republican politics over the past several years, a three-part system by which to generate a cloud of uncertainty about certain things. One component is to suggest a failure to treat something unserious as serious is a reflection of an unwillingness to debate, that the party considering the unserious thing as unserious is somehow afraid to confront it. Another is cherry-picking from huge pools of information, using isolated and usually misconstrued claims to construct alternative narratives. The third is the existence of a sympathetic media and social universe that collectively agrees the unserious and unproven thing is, in fact, both proven and serious.

Link to tweet

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/06/21/after-seven-months-debunking-false-belief-that-biden-won-because-fraud-hasnt-budged/

[Raven]

1. Doesn't sound like "drifting" to me. They know exactly what they're doing. n/t

[blm]

2. Cold, calculating, and succeeding

to a certain extent. How far they manage to succeed will depend on Dept of Justice, a diligent media, and Dem vote turnout in 2022.

[Wounded Bear]

3. They were drifting since Reagan, they aggressively accelerated under the Former Guy...nt

[Buckeye_Democrat]

4. They've been more concerned about power than truth...

... for as long as I remember.

It's why most scientists aren't Republicans anymore.

Pew polling from 2009:
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2009/07/09/section-4-scientists-politics-and-religion/
Most scientists identify as Democrats (55%), while 32% identify as independents and just 6% say they are Republicans.

[Thomas Hurt]

5. again, fascist selective populism.

[RAB910]

6. The right-wing built a very effective propaganda/hate machine

The more it's used and refined the further the right and GOP are removed from reality

I have right-wing friends and relatives that I have spoken to for years. Never has their view of reality been more skewed that it has been over the last year or so

[Ocelot II]

7. He has a point. The GOP no longer seems to have a defined ideology any more

apart from low taxes and deregulation (which are just ways of keeping rich people rich). This became obvious when they decided their party platform for the 2020 election was whatever Trump wanted it to be.

[SamKnause]

8. Lies are their platform.

They are evil, conniving, lying, cruel, theocratic, fascists.

They are the greatest threat this country has ever faced.

This has been planned for decades.

Trump was the catalyst that shifted them all in to overdrive.

They have morphed into an evil, dangerous, cruel cult.

They have infested every corner of this country.

They have infiltrated the military, police, and government.

They have attacked every institution of this country.

They corrupted the judiciary.

They have weakened this country.

They have divided this country.

I don't want bipartisanship.

I don't want to reach across the aisle.

They are evil and cruel.

You do not give in to terrorist that are trying to destroy this country.



If they are not held accountable (from top to bottom) this republic 'democracy' can not survive.

[lagomorph777]

9. Reach out across the aisle with a taser.

That's how I feel about it.

[Caliman73]

10. This is exactly what happens when you drift to the right.

There is nothing material that backs the ideas of the right. They believe that certain people are "ordained by God" to lead. No evidence that they are worthy to lead, no consent from the governed, just some belief. They try to create a mythology rather than look at material history and analyze what has worked for populations and what has not.

The whole ideology of the right relies on a suspension of disbelief and an acceptance of a made up story.

That may sound general and oversimplified, and it certainly is a very simplified version, but the fact is that right wing ideologies like conservatism and fascism want to promote the virtues of authoritarianism, racial, gender, and religious stratification, and package oppression into a fairy tale based on the kings and queens of old. That is how conservatism started, defending monarchy.

[czarjak]

11. Bullshit-Believers believe the darnedest things.