• snooggums@midwest.social
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    7 months ago

    The GOP is frequently parroting the stupid opinions of their voters, so it isn’t that they are fooling the people as much as feeding into their voter’s stupidity.

    Conservatives saying “If people care about [place] they should go live there” is something I’ve heard for decades, because I live in a backwards US state.

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      7 months ago

      Ahhhh, the old “If you love that inanimate object so much, why don’t you marry it?” response. This playground reaction tracks pretty well with my understanding of major party politics. Goddamn, I miss the days when the masks were still on and policies on both sides of the aisle still had some redeeming qualities.