Why is it that every time I read about that political party the narrative seems to be that they are categorically evil and against the common man? I am seriously asking this because I just can't reasonably believe that a political party like that could retain the position of power that it has. It just does not pass the common sense test.
So what am I missing?
The GOP is the party of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich. This has been true pretty much since Lincoln died. But as the US is, mostly, a 2 party dominated system, both major parties had to have some widening of appeal in order to have any real chance of election. For 50 years after Lincoln died, the Republican coalition was most of the North, and most of the West. Because the South were the traitors everyone remembered fighting. So while the GOP was the party of the Elite, which they've been ever since, they were also gaining votes from Northern and Western ordinary people.
Fast forward a bit into the Progressive era, and there was a Progressive wing of the Republican party. But the Elite opposed that successfully enough so that the Democratic party started to make gains in the North, and there came into being a Progressive wing of the Democratic party. Even though the majority of the Democratic party remained the Confederacy. The Old South.
This is how FDR came to power. He spent his whole time in office, longer by far than any other president, walking a tightrope of getting as much progressive stuff done without driving the Confederates into full opposition. And so from the 1930s to the 1970s, the Democrats had the balance of power in Washington. But it was always an uneasy alliance. The Democrats had been out of power nationally since the Traitor Confederates started the Civil War. So they'd put up with some progressiveness in order to be in power on other issues.
But then the Civil Rights movement came along. And if FDR didn't help that himself personally, he set the stage by which it became possible. And this broke the Democratic coalition of Progressives and Confederates.
It's not an accident that you can pretty much map the solid Democratic voting patterns of 60 years ago with the solid Republican voting patterns of today. It was called the Southern Strategy, and it was a deliberate, and quite open, effort by the Republican party to draw in the Confederates.
And then you had the anti-abortion movement. Which was, and is, a movement of racists, by racists, and for racists, to draw Evangelical Christians into being one issue voters for the Party of the Rich, By the Rich, and For the Rich. Because it does not matter to the anti-abortion voter how much evil they support, so long as they oppose abortion.
So yes, the Republican party is a party of evil. Every bit as much as the Nazi party. Because in order to be a Party of the Rich, By the Rich, and For the Rich, they first have to get elected. So they bring out the racism, and they whip the God Botherers into a frenzy of righteous misdirection. But the whole of their actual policy program is to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. Ultimately, anything else is a means to an end. As long as the Confederates and the racists and the Traitors and the Heretics are getting what they want, they'll be motivated to vote for the Elite. At their own expense, and at the lives of their children. Because people who are driven by hate are not rational.
Gori, that is below the worst of the worst here and you are not that, are you?
He's literally saying what Republicans are literally saying.
Nothing. It's nonsense. The GOP just wants to find a way to pay for necessary programs without endless money creation. Democrats do not believe in the word unsustainable. They do believe in magic monetary theory.
Democrats are rational on it. It's the Republicans who keep cutting taxes, and then acting surprised when they get deficits.
Nobody is!
