Ages ago, politics was a matter of “Well, we both want to improve the country, but it seems we disagree on the approach.”
Now, politics is “I would like to improve the country” vs “I would like OVER HALF THE COUNTRY TO GET FUCKED IN THE ASS because they’re all LEECHES AND FILTHY RATS. Just look at these studies that are all blatantly hallucinated lies I made up.”
One of the most consistent features of conservative “politics” is their ability to get lots of ordinary people to vote against their own interests.
Sure it was nice when the rank and file weren’t cheering on the New American Gestapo (good band name?) but the money > humans goals behind the policies were the same. The bigotry and tribalism and other-ing have always been tools in their propaganda machine. We’re witnessing those chickens coming home to roost.
Who could have known it would be a bad idea to systematically poison american culture so that a handful of old white dudes could hang on to the dream of dying as billionaires instead of pleb-ass run of the mill multimillionaires?
I think this is just a difference on the form, and not on the content.
When over half of the country is actually ducked in the ass because of either poor working conditions, womens absence of right, slavery, etc., saying “I don’t think we should change anything” seems like a calm way to say “we disagree on how to improve the country” when really it’s just saying “i want people to get fucked”. Betterment, even little, of life for those people makes assholes say out loud the hate they could hide in the statu quo previously.
Ages ago, politics was a matter of “Well, we both want to improve the country, but it seems we disagree on the approach.”
Now, politics is “I would like to improve the country” vs “I would like OVER HALF THE COUNTRY TO GET FUCKED IN THE ASS because they’re all LEECHES AND FILTHY RATS. Just look at these studies that are all blatantly hallucinated lies I made up.”
I long for the old conversation.
Did they though?
One of the most consistent features of conservative “politics” is their ability to get lots of ordinary people to vote against their own interests.
Sure it was nice when the rank and file weren’t cheering on the New American Gestapo (good band name?) but the money > humans goals behind the policies were the same. The bigotry and tribalism and other-ing have always been tools in their propaganda machine. We’re witnessing those chickens coming home to roost.
Who could have known it would be a bad idea to systematically poison american culture so that a handful of old white dudes could hang on to the dream of dying as billionaires instead of pleb-ass run of the mill multimillionaires?
I think this is just a difference on the form, and not on the content.
When over half of the country is actually ducked in the ass because of either poor working conditions, womens absence of right, slavery, etc., saying “I don’t think we should change anything” seems like a calm way to say “we disagree on how to improve the country” when really it’s just saying “i want people to get fucked”. Betterment, even little, of life for those people makes assholes say out loud the hate they could hide in the statu quo previously.