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  • UncleGrandPa@lemmy.worldEnglish
    701·
    7 months ago

    Anyone notice how many news stories nowadays start with "Republicans block or halt or shut down or remove something… They aren’t doing anything… Just keeping anyone else from doing anything

    • Funderpants @lemmy.caEnglish
      312·
      7 months ago

      People are probably getting sick of me saying this by now, but of course Republicans aren’t doing anything, this is their philosophy. Their core beliefs are in conserving traditional hierarchies and norms. God over man, men over women and children, white over black, rich over poor, cis-het over LGBT people and other hierarchies.

      Their actions are best understood through the lens of conservative philosophy and the maintenance or restoration of socio-economic hierarchies.

      To achieve their goals, they really only need to do a few things legialativly,

      1. Stop progress and change
      2. Rollback change

      You see 1 all the time, they dont even need to be in power to do it. They just need to get in the way. If they get power, you see 2, and since they’re trying to rollback generational change, not even decades old precedent is safe (see Roe vs. Wade).

      • jasondj@ttrpg.networkEnglish
        2·
        7 months ago

        The best part is that they got us fighting each other so much. They’ve managed to divide us across whatever line you can think of.

        All of this is a distraction. While racism and sexism absolutely exist, they fortunately aren’t the cornerstones of our hierarchies anymore. Thats great, but now we have a caste system, and nobody wants to acknowledge it.

        • Funderpants @lemmy.caEnglish
          9·
          7 months ago

          Seems clear to me that my explanation covers pretty well the reasons white power groups and orthodox/conservative Christians are right wing. They aren’t the same groups, necessarily, but they both want to conserve their respective hierarchies.

      • grayman@lemmy.worldEnglish
        610·
        7 months ago

        Democrats suck ass and do the same thing. Two parties my ass. It’s a game and we’re the pawns.

    • IHadTwoCows@lemm.eeEnglish
      61·
      7 months ago

      I am tired of Republicans being referred to as a political party instead of what they actually are: a violent terrorist ideology on the level of ISIS, Taliban, Al Qaida, Khmer Rouge, Bolshevik Soviets, etc. They are not a “differing opinion”; they are a terrorist insurgency bent on destroying America and it’s representative democracy. Those who refuse to acknowlege this and who disparage those who advocate defending against them are equally violent and evil.