The Democratic party and the Grifters Only Party have both been picking the pockets of bourgeoisie in America since well before any of us were born. Let's not kid ourselves. That said, since early 90's the gop has just gone farther right and become extremely adept at selling their line of bs. They also made a project of winning State House majorities. Screwed up the economy every single time they got into office since 2002 and STILL half of the public think the Republicans do better on finances. But Trump has totally fucked upped all the work the gop did to stay afloat. Now they are following acon artist down the road to perdition.
It self defeating. I don't get it.
C’mon, Vince! You do “get it”! It’s all about creating a cadre of low-information voters who are conned into voting against their own interests via distractions like appealing to their prejudices and belief systems through buzzwords, jingoism, and ersatz populism rather than statements that have any real substance or value. And it’s about using those voters to get and keep power.
As long as these kinds of (amoral, transactional, power-mad) people feel that they need votes, we’ll see this kind of political dynamic: deceitful and untrue propaganda employed crudely to appeal to uncritical/credulous voters. It’s all about maintaining the power of a group that’s swiftly becoming a minority as a result of inevitable/inexorable demographic changes.
Which means it’s also all about fear. And the world has already seen the horrors that fearful people can initiate and implement—slavery, genocides, the Crusades, other various religious wars, and on and on and on.
NCbear (who’s worried about what we’ll see when these same kinds of people consolidate sufficient power that they not only feel that they no longer need votes but in actuality do not need votes—unbridled power is truly terrifying)