Why the Republicans don't bother running on anything

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Problems, for the Republicans, don’t need policy solutions. What are they going to stand for when the problem is multiracial democracy?

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Why the Republicans don’t bother running on anything
Problems, for the Republicans, don’t need policy solutions. What are they going to stand for when the problem is multiracial democracy?
12:34 PM · Oct 5, 2022

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In 33 days, voters will decide which party controls the Congress. As the time ticks down, I’m not the only one who’s noticed that the Republicans, for all their Sturm und Drang, don’t appear to be running on anything. What will they do with control of the House? It’s hard to say. Whatever the Democrats do, do the opposite?

Again, I’m not the only one to notice a conspicuous absence of a positive policy program. So has Kevin McCarthy. That’s why the House minority leader staged a big reveal of the Republicans’ new agenda, “Commitment to America,” in Pittsburgh last month.

“Commitment to America” is sure to appeal to the former criminal president’s supporters. It has things like increased border security and repealing recent legislation that boosts funding for the IRS. But McCarthy is aiming higher than Donald Trump’s gutter sludge.

He knows that the Republicans must appear to care about public policy in order to win over white suburban women who are already hella mad about the Supreme Court killing Roe. “Americans are going to face a choice,” McCarthy said. “We have a real alternative here.”

Not really.

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[onecaliberal]

1. They have told us. They'll investigate and impeach. They'll pass tax cuts for wealthy and

Take away social security and Medicare.

[Mad_Machine76]

2. Unfortunately

Their voters care about only one thing: Power over others. To that end, the Republicans work fine for them.

[Wounded Bear]

3. Their policies are universally hated in the polls. They can't run on issues...

[moondust]

4. Trust Us!

(to establish a permanent fascist apartheid state.)

They can't say it out loud but they don't need to.

[Cyrano]

5. And if they establish a fascist apartheid state,

can concentration camps be far behind?

Many will treat that as hyperbole. In the 20th Century, many who didn't "get it," or couldn't escape, ended up in gas chambers.

Can any sane human being doubt that today's American Republican/Fascist Party would go that far? Sorry, but if you don't see that possibility, you're either incapable of grasping reality, or a total fool.

[moondust]

7. "Hope Lives When People Remember"

- Simon Weisenthal

Danger lives when people forget. With every passing day more of the living do not remember the horrors of fascism. As time passes maybe nothing can be ruled out, at least until the next chapter of horrors.

[RockRaven]

6. Republican politicians don't need to run on anything because half of American voters are shitbags

who will vote for them because they have no policies other than hating the "others."

[Hortensis]

8. Right. Their overwhelming goals are destruction of the Democratic Party

that heads up all who believe in and protect multiracial democracy and the liberalism whose core principles include equality of all individuals, individual rights and freedoms, and justice for all individuals. An irrational, mindless but intensely focused negativism.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. Hate radio and the Fascist Oligarch eXtremist network conditioned R voters to vote R regardless.

The only thing registered Republicans consider is party affiliation. The vast right-wing propaganda network has reduced everything to that.


Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!

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