Someone explain it to me like I'm a toddler

[EnergizedLib]

Why do these nut jobs keep doubling and tripling down on the said rhetoric that costs them elections they might otherwise win? The Democratic Party right now is performing, I’d reckon, better than most parties do when they hold the White House.

- Every forced birth ballot initiative has lost at the ballot box.

‘Let the people decide! Wait, no, not like that!’

So, what do they do? They try to stop their constituents from voting on the issue or they go ahead and don’t respect the will of the voters anyway.

- The American people rejected election fraud claims in 2022, so the lead challenger to try to win the White House back for Republicans is the same person they’ve hung that their hat on for nearly 10 years now despite three losing election cycles in a row just because of the fluke that was 2016.

And now, I’m seeing this, though I sure hope it won’t happen:

https://www.newsweek.com/janet-protasiewicz-may-impeached-gop-after-wisconsin-election-win-1792602?amp=1

This came after Dan Kelly whined last night after finding out Wisconsin voters just aren’t that into him - a male Martha McSally, if you will.

- Oh, and remember when we thought this was as crazy and extreme as it got?

Link to tweet

?s=46&t=1PCV34mcOYPfqOq_ehw4NQ

She ain’t worth much and is a pretty awful, but give the devil their due. Someone as abhorrent of a human being as is Ann Coulter is realizes this is a losing issue for them.

- So, they continue to double and triple down on such extreme rhetoric, and why?

Unless they’re satisfied with just winning primaries, if the people were asleep in 2016, they sure as heck aren’t asleep now.

The modern GOP have become the Principal Skinner meme in a nutshell.

- And rather than change positions and abandon some extreme rhetoric, just like the Dems eventually abandoned the New Deal when the country drank Raygun’s Kool Aid, they just want to make it harder up vote.

By all means, I’m down for Republicans losing elections all day, every day, but it’s still nauseating to see them try to force this crap on us that we’ve repeatedly established we do not want.

[Irish_Dem]

1. Because as they keep rigging the system and cheating, they won't need votes to win.

All they need are just enough votes to provide cover for their cheating.

The use of propaganda, gerrymandering, taking control of the state legislatures, voter suppression,
dark money, Supreme Court, etc is all they need.

In the meantime they keep flooding Americans with their fascist doctrine, and hope to
convince Americans to give up their democracy.

[EnergizedLib]

2. Americans are, thankfully, fighting back

Even though they cry election fraud because special little snowflakes can’t grasp their position is unpopular with the electorate.

[uponit7771]

17. +1,

[Irish_Dem]

18. Americans must decide if they want to live in a free, open democracy.

Or a closed, restricted fascist system with white male christian minority rule.

But first of all they have to face some hard reality.

[EnergizedLib]

19. To me, the hard reality came in 2016

Just knowing the kinds of values of so many people we share a country with.

[Irish_Dem]

21. Yes we knew then, but we didn't know exactly how bad it would get.

And all the mind blowing events.

[uponit7771]

16. THIS !!!! ☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾

[mucifer]

3. Sometimes I think someone

:Is paying them to destroy our country.

That’s what it feels like they are slowly doing

[EnergizedLib]

4. They're doing an incredible job

[chowder66]

5. Shhhhhhhh.

[maxsolomon]

6. Banning 'bortion is a long-term GQP goal.

It's why many GQP pols entered politics in the 1st place, and the only reason many of its voters choose the GQP (I have a cousin who's motivated solely by 'bortion).

They are going to strike while the iron is hot, future consequences be damned, and let the FedSoc Judiciary hold the line.

[BlueCheeseAgain]

7. Honestly? They probably believe it.

They genuinely want to ban abortion, so they keep doing it.

[Karadeniz]

8. My opinion: Ego functions out of the same brain that triggers the survival instinct. Completely

selfcentered. With little input from society or soul, sense of oneself gets all the attention. To some people, facts or respect for otherness feels like a life threatening personal attack. Those people seek out news programs, friends, churches, anything that confirms the rightness of their ego values. Anything contrary to their ego values is felt as a real threat.

[Initech]

9. Because the right wing has thousands of talk shows and web shows.

And they also have 3 dominating news sources. People like Marjorie Greene say and do crazy things because it gets their name in the news, and they say the things that the right wing wants to hear. So just like Trump, they're playing to the right wing like a fiddle. As long as they keep saying what the right wing wants to hear, they'll keep getting elected, no matter how much crazy shit they say or do.

[SharonClark]

13. Well said.

[Sogo]

10. This is evangelical thinking.....They have God on their side, and

they are on a crusade to destroy anyone who gets in their way. They see themselves as divinely entitled to rule.

[EnergizedLib]

12. Like Kari Lake, TFG and Dan Kelly

And they cry fraud when they don’t win.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

24. Bingo!

That is the biggest part of it. It's no different than battling fundamentalists in any religion. They are all the same. This is just the flavor of nuts we're plagued with in the USA.

[Orangepeel]

11. because GOP primary voters are true believers in that extreme rhetoric

[Marius25]

14. Because they have no other options.

Nobody except the Neo-Nazis, racists, fascists, and Christian extremists like their policies.

They can't win Democratically based on their policies, so they have to eliminate Democracy to stay in power.

[EnergizedLib]

15. This right here is what I'm talking about

Link to tweet

?s=46&t=nXJ0LkIS-sbciX1RD6fL_g

These cretins live in such denial.

[ProfessorGAC]

20. He Didn't Write This

Unless Kelly came to kiss the ring, he wouldn't know who he is.
Kelly didn't & TFG did not even know about this race.
This is a sycophant doing the bidding.

[Lonestarblue]

22. The idea of no Republicans left made me dizzy for a moment. What a lovely thought!

[JustAnotherGen]

23. Shhh

Don't tell them. Let them keep it up.

[NowsTheTime]

25. Who cares why, as long as they keep it up? Our focus needs to be on independents...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1017&pid=818166