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    1 year ago

    I don’t understand why they could not concentrate on providing support for issues that relate to rural voters… issues related to providing affordable health care

    The last 13 years the Republicans have been railing against the Affordable Healthcare Act (ACA, aka Obamacare). To come out now and say that affordable healthcare is an issue that needs additional resource and effort would destroy their carefully cultivated narrative against the ACA.

    They really just need to look at the nation and see what the problems are and make solving them their platform.

    The problems the Republicans appear to champion are:

    • what clothing people wear
    • how they choose to engage in sex among consenting adults
    • what bathroom a person chooses to relieve themselves in
    • what mates they choose to marry
    • what regulations can be removed to increase corporate profits
    • whitewashing history which would otherwise reflect the reality of the USA’s checkered past
    • legal support for entrenched companies in their industry against alternatives

    Most of this can be viewed easily through the lens of Wilhoit’s law:

    “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”