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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe are beginning to enter the RW endgame
For 30 years the RW in this country has planned for and laid the groundwork for what we are seeing unfold today. For too long it was thought of as fringe and not taken seriously. They would listen to their talk radio and and watch Fox News but still they were a minority in power. Over the past 14 years in the post Sarah Palin GOP it didnt matter as long as you were a militant Republican going to D.C to basically turn over the tables and fight the libruls. People in Congress and the Senate became less intelligent, less worried about governing or leading but rather fighting the Dems and mucking up the government.
Still for the most part Democrats still tried to govern by playing by the rules. Even while the SC seat of 2016 was being held up for a year the Democrats didnt throw a royal fit like they shouldve. It was like dont do that but never truly held them to account, mostly because I dont think anyone thought Hillary would lose, so shed rightfully make it right. Then Trump wins, the GOP does away with the filibuster and crams 2 justices through quickly, then a 3rd when it went directly against their own prior policy of 4 years prior. Still though I think many wanted to believe the justices as they testified that they believed prescedent was the law. However, living in conservative America I always thought this was the endgame. Get in power and if you get the Supreme Court youll see massively right wing policies coming out of red states
massively. The court will likely side with them as they were just put there for that. They are justices, they are right wing politicians in robes. So whatever you think they wont do, theres a good chance it will. Gay marriage? Up to the states. Federal regulations? Unconstitutional. Probably more that Im forgetting, but we are now unfortunately living in the end game of 40 years of planning and scheming.
Initech
(100,068 posts)One that will be next to impossible to get rid of. Fuck that shit.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)But, do you feel like they are coming to the endgame in a position of power? Cause, Im not sure Im feeling that.
They seem weaker than Ive seen them in years. Wracked with scandal, heckled in public, begging for pardons, subpoenaed, last president was a twice impeached weirdo who attempted an actual coup!
Five old penguins had to take a swing at the big tuna to get all their crimes out of the papers.
They seem to be limping to the endgame.
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ymetca
(1,182 posts)have declined in the "rust belt" and "heartland" states, and folks started migrating South and Southwest, the anger at those "carpetbagging" "coastal elites", who "sold all our jobs down the river" has risen. Unscrupulous AM radio hate-hucksters and televangelist sociopaths have filled in the picture --it was THOSE people who took it all away from you! And only Guns, God and lily white babies can get it back!
And all of this There will be blood! has been financed entirely by Big Oil. That coalition of Big Polluters and Big Slave Master Jesus is as old as them thar hills in this land.