Why Republicans live in fear

Ricter · Sep 16, 2021

Frederick Foresight said:
He posited on the fear of death, no?
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That's the one. The Denial of Death. A must read for anyone who wants to step out of the maelstrom for a spell imo.

Cuddles · Sep 16, 2021

piezoe said:
I might agree that fear is not the dominant feature of modern Republican politics, but it is certainly one of the dominant features. Other features are party members' preference for job training over education, anti-intellectualism and mistrust of academia. Most troubling is the party's latent White Nationalism which has been awakened by it demagogic leadership. This spells trouble for a country demographically becoming browner, and rapidly so. The last major nation where White Nationalism became a dominating feature ended up being bombed into the dust.

The U.S. sorely needs healthy opposition in its politics to prevent one political faction or another from becoming either tyrannical or ineffectual. Where will that healthy opposition come from? Certainly not from the Republicans, who are working so hard to marginalize themselves. The danger they represent to the rest of us is their only feature keeping them from irrelevancy.

I suppose the independent voter will now be called on to fill the void left by the Republicans who consciously abandoned integrity and reason and instead declared war on truth and embraced lies and nastiness in what is likely to be a futile attempt to hold their dwindling flock together.
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that's all fear though. Fear of inadequacy for lacking education, fear of enlightment, fear of anyone non-white, fear of anyone non-christian, fear of anyone non-GQP, fear of the vaxxed, fear of democracy enshrining any of the above, and on, and on...

Wallet · Sep 16, 2021

Pot calling the kettle black.....

What have the Democrats ran on the last several election cycles?

They’re going to:

Take away your health care,
Take away your social security,
Wreck the Climate,
Starve Grandma,
(my favorite)
Gonna put you all back in chains,

List goes on.....

They campaign on FEAR.

Cuddles · Sep 16, 2021

Wallet said:
What have the Democrats ran on the last several election cycles?
They’re going to:
Take away your health care,
Take away your social security,
Wreck the Climate,

They campaign on FEAR.
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No, that's campaigning on facts.

Bugenhagen · Sep 16, 2021

Wallet said:
Pot calling the kettle black.....

What have the Democrats ran on the last several election cycles?

They’re going to:

Take away your health care,
Take away your social security,
Wreck the Climate,
Starve Grandma,
(my favorite)
Gonna put you all back in chains,

List goes on.....

They campaign on FEAR.
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As here for Cuddles said, fact based concerns. What's 'Starve Grandma?'

Buy1Sell2 · Sep 16, 2021

Wallet said:
Pot calling the kettle black.....

What have the Democrats ran on the last several election cycles?

They’re going to:

Take away your health care,
Take away your social security,
Wreck the Climate,
Starve Grandma,
(my favorite)
Gonna put you all back in chains,

List goes on.....

They campaign on FEAR.
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SO CORRECT!!

Wallet · Sep 16, 2021

Cuddles said:
No, that's campaigning on facts.
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More like psychological projection.

Wallet · Sep 16, 2021

Bugenhagen said:
As here for Cuddles said, fact based concerns. What's 'Starve Grandma?'
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I think it was actually throw or push Grandma off a cliff.

Ricter · Sep 16, 2021

Dems and reps should stop fearing each other and start fearing the plutocracy.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cons...orporate-donations_n_61422b06e4b098770fd28f72

Cuddles · Sep 16, 2021

Wallet said:
More like psychological projection.
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It took a man dying of brain cancer to stop Repugnicons from stripping millions of healthcare. Who lobbies against climate change? Trump tried to cut payroll tax that funds social security. What bizarro parallel universe are you living in?