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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNancy nails it.
We dont have shared values. Thats just the way it is.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, quoted by Politico, on negotiations with Republicans over a coronavirus relief bill.
https://politicalwire.com/2020/07/31/bonus-quote-of-the-day-1367/
uponit7771
(90,329 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I'll take a swing at spelling it out: Democrats want to treat the pandemic as a public health emergency; Republicans want to game it for political and financial gain.
Blue Owl
(50,331 posts)Fuck McConnell.
handmade34
(22,756 posts)2 different species... it seems
Harker
(14,008 posts)Sharers and hoarders.
handmade34
(22,756 posts)human/non-human
ok... they are human in the biological sense but not in anyway I think of... and certainly not humane
Behaviorally inhuman and inhumane, certainly.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)They have no cortex.
BComplex
(8,029 posts)It really does seem like we're 2 different species.
I don't see how we can possibly find common ground with this bunch! They are willingly brainwashed, and they're ADDICTED to their brainwashing. They have NO capacity for logic or foresight to see where their bone-headed ideas would take us.
crickets
(25,959 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,737 posts)The Republicans have for decades appealed to voter's greed, ignorance, authoritarianism, fear, and bigotry.
The Democrats appeal to compassion, logic, tolerance, equal rights and worker's rights.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)KS Toronado
(17,187 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,116 posts)You cling to the positions of your opponents when it can do something for you, like convince a few percentage of their voters that you're ok too.
When you are pushing the opposition away, isolating them, they are toxic. Republicans are on a sinking ship and we are wise not to offer a lifeline.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)gademocrat7
(10,651 posts)OMGWTF
(3,949 posts)To that I would add: coddling the rich, colluding with our enemies, and general asshatery.
PatrickforO
(14,569 posts)Right she is. The Republican party does not value people so does not share values with us.
niyad
(113,213 posts)Bluethroughu
(5,148 posts)jaxexpat
(6,815 posts)on which that society rests. The original feather-touch pavement slam that WILL leave a bruise.
maxsolomon
(33,279 posts)we used to share basic things like the Golden Rule. now they DGAF.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)FoxNewsSucks
(10,428 posts)Americans and Republicans do not have any shared values