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NanceGreggs

(27,835 posts)
Sat May 20, 2023, 12:21 AM May 2023

How STUPID do you have to be ...

... to support the party that is willing to crash the economy in order to force the poor further into poverty, while maintaining tax breaks for people who own yachts and private jets?

Talk about "voting against your own interests", Republican voters apparently have that all sewn up.

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pansypoo53219

(21,642 posts)
8. faith based politikks. its a bent. my phd cousin is entralled by ditto, alex jones + the tangerine
Sat May 20, 2023, 01:21 AM
May 2023

twat. his farther listens to shit too.

diva77

(7,880 posts)
9. Many are evangelical sheep - steeped in their bubble of religion including all social activities
Sat May 20, 2023, 01:36 AM
May 2023

They're in an alternate universe. Zombies on auto pilot. Some are highly educated but are in that bubble. They admire pillow man and believe he is a great healer with his drug rehab programs.

If the bubble could be burst maybe we'd see some change. They need to be exposed to the truth -- replacing their diet of lies. We need a mass media intervention.

diva77

(7,880 posts)
15. That's a start - communicating with them with references they can understand
Sat May 20, 2023, 01:55 PM
May 2023

but how do you get them to replace their false prophet with the truth? (not sure I completely understand the message of Matthew 7:15 )

Initech

(101,554 posts)
10. The republicans are literally Kevin Bacon's character from Animal House.
Sat May 20, 2023, 01:41 AM
May 2023

Like no matter how much abuse the republicans hurl at them, even if it means killing their own children or bankrupting them, they’ll sit there and take it, because they won’t listen to any other side, despite that it might be better.



diva77

(7,880 posts)
11. maybe the ones in government have a form of Stockholm Syndrome
Sat May 20, 2023, 01:46 AM
May 2023

A weird mix of power-hungry people who are also beholden to the dark money special interests

Pototan

(1,861 posts)
12. Voting against one's own best interest is not new
Sat May 20, 2023, 02:40 AM
May 2023

Here is a link to a group that did that and must be considered the worst political choice in human history.

The Association of German National Jews (German: Verband nationaldeutscher Juden) was a German Jewish organization during the Weimar Republic and the early years of Nazi Germany that eventually came out in support of Adolf Hitler.


Link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_German_National_Jews

COL Mustard

(6,806 posts)
13. An easy solution to this problem is
Sat May 20, 2023, 02:55 AM
May 2023

To mint a $1 trillion coin. In fact, mint several of them. The West Point mint has the platinum, and the coinage is already authorized, so let’s do it.

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