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In reply to the discussion: Just curious about what your thoughts are on the number of Republican candidates. [View all]F4lconF16
(3,747 posts)It's becoming unpredictable and self-destructive as people begin to actually believe in and fight for the ideology introduced in the waves of conservatism in the 80s. Big money is still in the hands of the uber-capitalists, but it's beginning to sponsor the Democrats, as the capitalists seek stability. In the meantime, the right is useful in that they whip up half a country into a solid rightward pulling voting block that helps to implement the capitalists' demands. Wealth doesn't care what they do or say, because they have reliable candidates elsewhere. So the conservatives pull harder rightwards for the personal and ideological gains they can use to control their people, and the capitalists get an easy way to pass blatantly facist laws. It's an ingenius system, when you get down to it. It also results in a wide variety of complete and total dumbasses making fools of themselves to the general horror of the nation at large.