Facing a difficult midterm landscape, there's a growing view in the GOP that revisiting election grievances risks distracting from the issues that matter most.
Just what are the issues that matter most to conservatives?
Men in women’s sports? Deporting all the brown people? Starting multiple wars and assassinating foreign leaders? Taxing Americans with regressive taxes to push away our allies? Destroying NATO? Ballrooms? Arches? That pedophile’s name being smeared onto buildings? His visage on Mt. Rushmore and on coins?
I absolutely can’t stand it, but realistically it’s often just the appearance of “lower taxes”. I know people who DONT PAY TAXES who want lower taxes. They are stupid and I want to scream. It doesn’t matter how many articles or studies or videos you show them, they just associate republicans with lower taxes and that’s what they want. They don’t particularly care about human rights, or outcomes for citizens, just the idea of lower taxes. Capitalism has made class solidarity so hard. These people have no idea who really has aligned interests and are in a constant bubble of misinformation that they refuse to do even the slightest thing to escape from. You can spoon feed them facts and they will spit them out. It’s like trying to feed a baby, but at least one day the baby may grow up and be able to feed itself. These people are incurious rubes who are ruining the world and are often not the ones suffering most from their decisions, though to be clear, they’re often not benefiting either. Also a bunch of Christian nationalists, and fascists, and run of the mill racist, sexist reactionaries.
Just what are the issues that matter most to conservatives?
Men in women’s sports? Deporting all the brown people? Starting multiple wars and assassinating foreign leaders? Taxing Americans with regressive taxes to push away our allies? Destroying NATO? Ballrooms? Arches? That pedophile’s name being smeared onto buildings? His visage on Mt. Rushmore and on coins?
The conservatives are entirely unserious people.
I absolutely can’t stand it, but realistically it’s often just the appearance of “lower taxes”. I know people who DONT PAY TAXES who want lower taxes. They are stupid and I want to scream. It doesn’t matter how many articles or studies or videos you show them, they just associate republicans with lower taxes and that’s what they want. They don’t particularly care about human rights, or outcomes for citizens, just the idea of lower taxes. Capitalism has made class solidarity so hard. These people have no idea who really has aligned interests and are in a constant bubble of misinformation that they refuse to do even the slightest thing to escape from. You can spoon feed them facts and they will spit them out. It’s like trying to feed a baby, but at least one day the baby may grow up and be able to feed itself. These people are incurious rubes who are ruining the world and are often not the ones suffering most from their decisions, though to be clear, they’re often not benefiting either. Also a bunch of Christian nationalists, and fascists, and run of the mill racist, sexist reactionaries.
They are miserable and everyone else must be miserable. For Jesus’s sake. 🙃