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They threaten/shit down the government every other issue… Like a toddler having a tantrum.

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shit down the government

I don’t know if this was a typo, but it’s rather appropriate either way.

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Typo but I’m gonna keep it. Like you said it works

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a toddler throws a tantrum when it thinks it can get something it wants from the adult and democrats have a history of giving these toddlers what they wanted when they tantrum-ed hard enough; their current party leader literally used to brag about doing so in his 2020 campaign.

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Republicans choose conservatism over democracy, and they lose the more people vote.

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I don’t think they are conservatives, although they call themselves that. Democrats are conservatives.

Classic conservatives conserve: this is a mob who could not individually list one thing they want to keep from changing. They want as much change that makes them the most money

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Preservation of an existing thing and conservative political ideology aren’t actually linked. No matter how much conservatives try to tell you they are. Classic Conservatism was just how 17th and 18th century political philosophers referred to monarchies and top down systems that impose order on the masses. This was in opposition to Classical Liberalism which was a bottom up imposition of order. I.e. by the people, for the people.

In many ways the South came out of the revolution still subscribed to classical conservatism. They favored a heavy class system, different rules for the elite and workers, and were loathe to expand voting beyond the elite. Even after the civil war they made the antebellum period their golden age. It wasn’t until the post world war 2 era offered Neo-Liberalism that they really gave up trying to go back to the antebellum period. There were even slave-like conditions called peonage right up to the mid 1940s.

One of the biggest differences in classical conservatism and liberalism was what they called, the state of nature. Liberals saw all men as inherently good, but taught to be evil by oppression and stressful environmental factors. Conservatives saw all men as inherently evil and in need of strong control. Their theories followed pretty well from those base assumptions. Although there was also a healthy dose of Divine Rule in conservatism.

I’m mentioning this because I hope everyone reading this can realize the Republicans of the cold war, as racist and hateful as they were, were still inside classical liberalism. They still believed in democracy, rule by the people, for the people. Since the end of Bush’s presidency though they’ve increasingly decided classical conservatism is more attractive.

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I’m mentioning this because I hope everyone reading this can realize the Republicans of the cold war, as racist and hateful as they were, were still inside classical liberalism. They still believed in democracy, rule by the people, for the people.

Considering the war on drugs I question that. The war on drugs was just the new Jim Crow

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republicans are trying to conserve billionaires money, democrats are trying to conserve the larger federal system. Nobody is trying to fix the system atm.

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They’re dixiecrats, they took over the Republicans during the party switch.

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7 points

Mint the damn trillion-dollar coin

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Do it, yah fucking whinny-ass man-child.

Shut the fucking government down because you’re afraid of fucking democracy.

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I think “fucking democracy” is their end goal here.

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Pretty sure that’s how you catch liberty… and they think it’s an std

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Sexually transmitted democracy eww 🤢

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I get the sentiment, and am also so, so tired of this. But. It’s an election year and Biden is currently president. In other words, these freaks will absolutely shut down the government, actively harm the economy, and reduce our national security because they can then blame democrats and it will help elect Trump. Please vote, donate, and volunteer accordingly…

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only idiots see that.

Everyone else sees that they’re actively fucking everyone over. there’s not enough idiots to sway, if everyone gets out to vote.

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They would never. They can threaten all they want but what they are really risking is the dollar as the dominant currency. If it becomes commonplace or even somewhat likely that a shutdown can happen, the rest of the world sees that as instability. These fools don’t know what levers they are messing with and the second someone actually pulls it they will shit their pants crying because they made a booboo.

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Dems need to draw a line in the sand here and do some of the campaigning on this

“They are so afraid that they would rather shut down government than allow votes”

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I suspect the redhats would just interpret the votes being blocked were for “illegals” and that this was a good thing. Because they’ve been told this repeatedly.

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The Republicans are trying to prevent college students from voting with this bill.

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OK…?

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