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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI am so tired of...republicans
Holding back American progress. Tired of being held hostage to republicans personality disorders.
Why do they vote for the abusive shit they vote for?
Why do they use fear tactics?
Why do they like making the poor suffer?
Why do they think in terms of black and white?
Why do they play victim when obviously they are not being victimized?
Why are they so closed minded?
Its all about who they are, their personalities,and an outer locus of control.
And America is being held back by the way republicans are. We democrats owe them nothing. They are not entitled to anything.
Dems remember that please.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)RANDYWILDMAN
(2,868 posts)Fear the immigrants (even though basically we are all from immigrants)
Fear the border
Fear welfare for poor people, but not for ultra mega rich people and corporations, cause they EARNED it ?
Fear the liberals and their ideas (reasonable health care, debt relief for common folks not million/billiionaires, etc)
Fear the cities and the taxes they bring to rural areas
Fear the LGBTQ (unless they are your family, then they are ok but not those other people, talking to you cheney fam)
Fear the educated (WTF)
Fear the vaccine
fear the people who question the military, anything, budget, should we invade foreign countries, don't ask...troop salary ETC
Fear the people who question religion
Fear the people who don't show their patriotism the way I do
Fear the business regulation....every massive financial scandal of my lifetime an R has been in charge or has made it worse
Fear the people who question the police (law and order is a propaganda pro police show...so are many others)
Fear public schools (unilke private schools can't exclude anybody)
Fear taxes (if WE ALL payed our fair share most people would end up paying a lot less, hint hint)
Fear the media (owned by mega corps, still selling even more people FEAR and Hate of poor people) rich peeps and corps are still and have always awesome.....
Fear Climate change, cause we really CAN"T do anything about it according to the fossil fuel industry
Joinfortmill
(16,353 posts)Warpy
(113,130 posts)into people with certain personality traits, such people will always be with us.
The way their brains are wired so differently makes me wonder if we're in the process of a species split. We're overdue for some sort of change.
PatrickforB
(15,100 posts)Golden Rule - to do unto others as they would have others do unto them? The Wall Street greed-lizards definitely would not know how to even deal with that. Nor would Madison Avenue, the Pentagon, publicly traded corporations and a host of others.
Because make no mistake - Republicans pretend to be Christian, but the reality is they worship the Golden Calf (bronze bull) of Wall Street. That is America's real God.
Rizen
(801 posts)They're horrible people.
Conjuay
(2,076 posts)sorry, sometimes I just cant stop myself!
calimary
(84,176 posts)Only ONE side is the bad guy.
Mysterian
(5,193 posts)Weak-minded, gullible morons who need a "strong man" leader to protect them from imaginary evils.
NBachers
(18,102 posts)samplegirl
(12,051 posts)Some days it's just hard to face another day of their bullshit!
ShazzieB
(18,553 posts)They assume being poor is one's own fault. It's related to the just world hypothesis:
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
This world view is of course based on a lot of incorrect assumptions, but it is nonetheless held by many people, consciously or unconsciously.
Unfortunately, those who believe people get what they deserve tend to see poor people as undeserving, thereby relieving themselves of any obligation to share what they regard as their own well-deserved wealth.
chowmama
(501 posts)It was on a different subject (rape) but applies across the board. To paraphrase (because I'm too lazy to look it up) -
As long as they can point to some behavior, fault or failing that they can claim caused the condition (in this case, poverty), they can be comfortably righteous. Superciliously superior. Not at risk and definitely off the hook.
If those things aren't a factor, well then, it can happen to anybody. It could happen to you. That's just too terrifying to face.
And if you face it, you have to try to do something about it.
Diamond_Dog
(34,534 posts)Excellent post.
DENVERPOPS
(9,881 posts)these are not the "ol Guard" Republicans we think of. They have been overtaken by this group of "New" Republicans.
My father and all his cronies, who were staunch Repubs back in the Ike days, are all rolling over in their Graves.
Some French guy back in the 1700's when we were first forming this nation as a Democracy said:
"A Democracy will last only until some individuals or group figures out that they can vote themselves money"....And here we are!!!!!!
c-rational
(2,863 posts)as such, they impede and resist until they try and steal the next election.. Best we finally recognize the futility of any rational discourse. Do not be discouraged. Let us keep our eye on the ball.
AllaN01Bear
(22,995 posts)my late mom was on mcarthys black list for attending the model united nations in sanfransico.
Hikerchick57
(168 posts)SleeplessinSoCal
(9,652 posts)It's so very hard when you haven't been brought up by hard line conspiracy nuts.
If you think Marjorie Taylor Greene is nuts, you should meet her dad
https://www.rawstory.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-father/
But given rumors of Bank failures leading to worthless dollars going back centuries, it's wise to protect your sanity. They didn't.
ThoughtCriminal
(14,271 posts)For the same reason sociopaths become CEOs
Society rewards them for being assholes.
appalachiablue
(42,856 posts)NanaCat
(2,332 posts)They're stupid bigots.
That is why they do all that they do.