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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 12:05 AM Jun 2018

I Really Wonder If The GOP Will Really Pay For This Mess. They Have Gotten Away With So Much.

The GOP has been damaging and sabotaging the country even before Reagan. Reagan put their destruction on the fast track. I just don't get it. I do not understand how they got this far.

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I Really Wonder If The GOP Will Really Pay For This Mess. They Have Gotten Away With So Much. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Jun 2018 OP
nope, they will collaborate with putin to steal elections instead AlexSFCA Jun 2018 #1
Oh brother. John Fante Jun 2018 #7
You should see the conversations I am having on facebook. LuvLoogie Jun 2018 #2
40% of this country are reptilian brained robots... Moostache Jun 2018 #3
No they won't hibbing Jun 2018 #4
It depends what the democrats do. rockfordfile Jun 2018 #5
The Democrats Are Pretty Powerless To Do Anything. TheMastersNemesis Jun 2018 #6
The vast majority of Americans oppose this. John Fante Jun 2018 #8
the vast majorities of which states? AlexSFCA Jun 2018 #9
Certainly They Do. It Will Take Massive Marches & Shutting Down Congress. TheMastersNemesis Jun 2018 #10
Not to mention gun control. This is a center-left nation John Fante Jun 2018 #11

Moostache

(9,897 posts)
3. 40% of this country are reptilian brained robots...
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 12:11 AM
Jun 2018

20% of this country is "centrist", which in all honesty means they vote for whoever seems to have the best chance to win or the most resonant populist 'message' (policies be damned)...

The right wing has been exposed as amoral power monsters...they seek only control and at ANY cost or consequence.

That's "How"...the "why" is even easier....because they are infected with greed for more of all things than they can ever use and less for everyone else on the wrong "team" or "color"...

hibbing

(10,116 posts)
4. No they won't
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 12:24 AM
Jun 2018

I'm back to being a major pessimist with no hope. Reagan had Iran Contra and established a whole new generation of life long Republicans. W, the endless war in Iraq and tanked the economy. That party gets in power again and starts implementing the exact policies that screwed the economy. I could go on and on, but preaching to the choir.

Peace

 

TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
6. The Democrats Are Pretty Powerless To Do Anything.
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 12:31 AM
Jun 2018

They can disrupt Congress and go ballistic, but the lame stream media would eat them alive. It is up to the public to put the pressure on, but we seem to have a lot of Americans Who support this policy.

John Fante

(3,479 posts)
8. The vast majority of Americans oppose this.
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 12:34 AM
Jun 2018

When the real horrors going on inside these camps are exposed, the support will drop further.

 

TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
10. Certainly They Do. It Will Take Massive Marches & Shutting Down Congress.
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 12:38 AM
Jun 2018

Even though most American appose this policy I wonder if they will change it. There are a lot of progressive policies that Americans support but the GOP has gone in the opposite direction. People want health care but the GOP is still taking it away.

John Fante

(3,479 posts)
11. Not to mention gun control. This is a center-left nation
Wed Jun 20, 2018, 01:23 AM
Jun 2018

pretty much every issue, yet here we are. You make a good point.

There's something so vulgar, despicable, and EVIL about this policy, that something will have to give, and give quickly. It could get ugly though.

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