• greenskye
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    1 year ago

    I miss those kind of conservatives. The ones with brains and principals.

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      1 year ago

      That’s the problem with the modern GOP - it’s not compatible with having brains or principles.

      …but if you like perpetually terrified dumb, bigoted culture war nonsense, have I got a bridge to sell you.

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        1 year ago

        The GOP has been braindead my entire adult lifetime… So over 30 years AT LEAST. Some would argue it goes further back than that.

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          I personally think they went through a meaningful shift from being evil but effective in their own way (in advancing their own agenda not in solving actual problems) to transparently stupid, and - genuinely unhinged Jewish space lasers, nuking tornadoes, drinking bleach, buying Greenland, and staring directly into the sun.

          They’ve gone from cynically exploiting culture war nonsense to advance class war to believing their propaganda and losing the plot - I think the rise of the tea party was the inflection point.