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Republican primary poll for Michigan
Trump 45
DeSantis 42
Trump 45
DeSantis 42
Something that the youtube has thrown at me.
Cynicism in general is a corrosive force. Every act of injustice that goes unpunished erodes people's belief, their faith, that the social institutions set up (the laws, the courts, the police, the prosecutors, the defense lawyers, and finally the legislators and politicians): 1) to prevent acts of injustice, 2) to punish the acts of injustice that do happen and 3) to redress the damage to the extent that it is possible from acts of injustice committed.The committee, across these eight hearings, has built a case – more political than legal — that Trump, who continues to lie about the election and teases that he will run again in 2024, is not fit to hold the office...The bottom line is Trump knew what was going on, and could have taken action, but chose not to, for hours. It was three hours and seven minutes from the end of his speech to when he finally put out the video telling the rioters to go home...Trump's criminal culpability, if any, is for the Department of Justice to determine. It's becoming clearer after several of these hearings, that the committee's goal is less legal and more political...
Only Nixon can go to China.
Perhaps she is looking for some new company to invest in. Oops, I mean for her husband to invest in.
Logan Act.
I've heard many attribute this issue to poor education in the US, which refers back to the OP.To finally answer this. As I said I find it kinda "cringey" when people in US call GOP conservatives. Since I really don't see what is all that conservative in that party. Conservatives should be about law and order and Reps want to flood the whole society with guns, so that everyone can make their own justice on the spot. What in my own book is more like an anarchy than some kind of law and order. The same thing is with economy, everything has to be deregulated even if the half products are made and customers are cheated or poisoned ( since they don't have a lab worth 200 million that would determine flaws of the product). Conservation of environment: zero points. Conserving people's health, not really. Deficit control: not really at this point. Organizing clean and fair election and respecting institutions: the government is the problem .... etc. etc.
My general dislike of GOP is there exactly since this in my book isn't a conservative party by almost any means. But some kind of a anarchy-business-theological hybrid that is a story for itself. It is not really a secret that I am not American but I really don't understand why in US this is considered to be conservative position. In my book the Democrats are much closer to what I would consider conservative, especially if we don't count the hard-core wokers. Conservatism for me requires one sense of order and justice and GOP isn't really on board here. Some see me here as some kind of a HC liberal, while in fact I am no stranger to watching my own local right wing evening news (which would be rated as pretty progressive by US standards). Not to mention that I am for cotrolling deficts, I don't mind market as long as basic human rights are respected, I am straight ... etc. But as soon as you advocate for more compact order or science you are seen as some kind of a far left nut that will end liberty for the rest of eternity. I know culture is a messy concept but here there seems to be so much disconnection that numbers just don't add up here towards conservatism (in my book). In other words they as a party are bad at fixing most stuff exactly since they for the most part are impulse driven as a culture. While to me that is the opposite from conservative. For me conservatism is more surgical in approach and most Reps aren't really there. However as the world became complex there are lesser and lesser chances that reactive improvised logic will get it right and that everything will be ok. Therefore for me defining their position is more like stubborn than conservative. It is almost as US culture doesn't really understand that you can be on the right while not being evident economic libertarian, religious fanatic or ultra nationalist. What in my book are more like extremist positions than conservative ones, which should be thought through.
You can can call them crypto-fascists since that is what the majority of Republicans/GOP/conservatives/right wingers embrace. Not outright support of course. That's still too risky at the moment but it won't be for long. In the end, in the US, the fundamental distinction between conservatism and liberalism is the former’s commitment to moral inequality. Conservatives are simply more comfortable with the idea that people are unequal, and so should be treated unequally. US conservatives feel too many people—immigrants, women, minorities—had cut in line and obtained benefits and government mandated advantages that they did not deserve. The same was true of Reagan and his tirades against “welfare queens” in the 1980s. In circumstances where too many gains have been achieved by liberals and leftists, conservatives will engage in anything from radical reforms to outright counter-revolutionary efforts to restore the "right" kind of social hierarchy to society. And that is what we are seeing and why.To finally answer this. As I said I find it kinda "cringey" when people in US call GOP conservatives. Since I really don't see what is all that conservative in that party. Conservatives should be about law and order and Reps want to flood the whole society with guns, so that everyone can make their own justice on the spot. What in my own book is more like an anarchy than some kind of law and order. The same thing is with economy, everything has to be deregulated even if the half products are made and customers are cheated or poisoned ( since they don't have a lab worth 200 million that would determine flaws of the product). Conservation of environment: zero points. Conserving people's health, not really. Deficit control: not really at this point. Organizing clean and fair election and respecting institutions: the government is the problem .... etc. etc.
My general dislike of GOP is there exactly since this in my book isn't a conservative party by almost any means. But some kind of a anarchy-business-theological hybrid that is a story for itself. It is not really a secret that I am not American but I really don't understand why in US this is considered to be conservative position. In my book the Democrats are much closer to what I would consider conservative, especially if we don't count the hard-core wokers. Conservatism for me requires one sense of order and justice and GOP isn't really on board here. Some see me here as some kind of a HC liberal, while in fact I am no stranger to watching my own local right wing evening news (which would be rated as pretty progressive by US standards). Not to mention that I am for cotrolling deficts, I don't mind market as long as basic human rights are respected, I am straight ... etc. But as soon as you advocate for more compact order or science you are seen as some kind of a far left nut that will end liberty for the rest of eternity. I know culture is a messy concept but here there seems to be so much disconnection that numbers just don't add up here towards conservatism (in my book). In other words they as a party are bad at fixing most stuff exactly since they for the most part are impulse driven as a culture. While to me that is the opposite from conservative. For me conservatism is more surgical in approach and most Reps aren't really there. However as the world became complex there are lesser and lesser chances that reactive improvised logic will get it right and that everything will be ok. Therefore for me defining their position is more like stubborn than conservative. It is almost as US culture doesn't really understand that you can be on the right while not being evident economic libertarian, religious fanatic or ultra nationalist. What in my book are more like extremist positions than conservative ones, which should be thought through.
I've heard many attribute this issue to poor education in the US, which refers back to the OP.
Some have even speculated that the weakening of education is a deliberate choice by oligarchic interests to strengthen their own position in this way.
You can can call them crypto-fascists since that is what the majority of Republicans/GOP/conservatives/right wingers embrace. Not outright support of course. That's still too risky at the moment but it won't be for long. In the end, in the US, the fundamental distinction between conservatism and liberalism is the former’s commitment to moral inequality. Conservatives are simply more comfortable with the idea that people are unequal, and so should be treated unequally. US conservatives feel too many people—immigrants, women, minorities—had cut in line and obtained benefits and government mandated advantages that they did not deserve. The same was true of Reagan and his tirades against “welfare queens” in the 1980s. In circumstances where too many gains have been achieved by liberals and leftists, conservatives will engage in anything from radical reforms to outright counter-revolutionary efforts to restore the "right" kind of social hierarchy to society. And that is what we are seeing and why.
And there is no one on earth that hates America more than right wing/conservatives/Republican Americans. They absolutely despise the promise of secular government, of anyone striving for equality, the freedom others are granted the same as them, for all. That's why they scream about the idea of states rights (which also brought slavery among other things). Of course there is huge disconnect. Decades of right wing media has hammered that into their heads and no they have no idea that you can personally be conservatives without the Third Reich haircuts and ideology. Human and civil rights should never be negotiated and whatever the fash and their supporters have to say should be crushed as they are a threat to all humans world wide. Would have thought the two world wars would have made that very evident.