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IFightPolarBears t1_j0834pt wrote

>Both sides gerrymander

I mean, up until the last 2election cycles Dems were pushing for neutral gerrymanders that are fair. GOP took it to court and had it throw out a long with the protections for African Americans that came with it. Courts protected the gerrymander as is and then Dems hard committed to gerrymandering in order to not give ground for free. Dems now gerrymander as hard as republicans do because they had to in order to keep up with republicans.

I hard disagree that Dems gerrymandered as hard as the redwave software that was used in 2006+(maybe 2008, don't remember)

>Maybe, but remember the tea party? Kinda nuts. Fizzled out

They didn't fizzle out. First off, the tea party was funded by billionaires from conception to what it became was all funded by billionaires.

Once the tea party had enough people that the GOP was bending over for corporations, the funding for the tea party dried up. And they went away. But the refusal to touch corporate taxes had remained. The tea party was retired once it did it's job.

Billionaires were fine with funding lunatics as long as they protected they profits.

Look at Peter theil, he's a billionaire that during interviews has discussed America being better off not being democratic, how it should be "run like a business", supporting a strong authority takes control of all branches of government. He doesn't say he hopes it's him, but he does stop just short. But he's in favor of a dictator at the head of the US. He's currently the one dumping cash into the craziest of the GOP. Now the Senate has people talking about Jewish space laser, going to white nationalist conventions. There are currently enough lunatics in the Senate that they can dictate who the head of the GOP is. And they are negotiating currently about how much power they'll have. They are as we speak demanding they have the power to recall the speaker at any point, by any person. That just means the craziest representatives have that much more power.

>Trump seems to have changed for the worse. But he isn’t getting any support and everyone he supported lost. Let him be blowhard. Who cares. He will fade to obscurity.

Right. But this ain't about trump. It's about the authoritarian fascist leaning of the GOP. Trump clearly has authoritarian dreams. Happy the republicans are seeing it. But...who is 2nd? Desantis is being whispered everywhere.

Desantis is also a fucken authoritarian lol so like, good on the GOP for catching up. But they aren't learning a lesson. The lesson they learned was trump lost us elections, keep the fascist part, drop the trash. As far as I can tell. Right?

Desantis used the power of government to punish a company because he felt like it was the right move politically. He used the power of government to punish brown people he didn't want in his state. And it was cheered on.

Again. I ask you, of the list of fascist government tendencies, how many did the GOP tick off for you?

>Did the brown boys beat many people up? I feel they were/are morons, but there are cameras on them most places and when they broke the laws they got arrested, didn’t they?

They did sometimes. Other times they were not arrested at all even if they were on camera. They learned masks work.

>In the end, I think the country is too strong for any fringe group to takeover.

Why is America so special? Why were other countries unable to resist fascism?

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Revolutionary-Toe789 t1_j08507o wrote

Both sides do questionable shit. In mass when the gov is Republican and senator dies, they change law so gov can’t pick senator. I have no affiliation to either party, and don’t think they are all that different. Both are self serving.

I have no issue with people becoming rich. I think it’s great if you can amass a fortune by adding value to society. But who cares what one guy wants? He can have his opinion. Whatever. I’m sure there is a poor person who would also like to be king of America. What does that matter?

As I have stated I don’t really watch the news, so I didn’t see videos or read about the morons beating people up and not getting arrested. Entirely possible it happened. They should get arrested if they assaulted anyone. Just like anyone that assaulted them should get arrested.

I do think America is special. But I support a democratic and capitalist society. So, if nothing else, there is too much money here for fascism or socialism to take over, IMHO.

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IFightPolarBears t1_j08a7rx wrote

>I have no issue with people becoming rich

Neither do I.

But we've allowed rich people/corporations to dump unlimited money into our government. That alone is one of the most corrupting forces in government.

>cares what one guy wants? He can have his opinion.

Well, neo nazis do. Nazis want what that guy is paying for. He's literally paying for neo nazis to get into government.

>I’m sure there is a poor person who would also like to be king of America. What does that matter?

Poor person can't pay for his views to be made reality.

>So, if nothing else, there is too much money here for fascism or socialism to take over, IMHO.

This is what was said about WW1 being impossible to break out due to how much money was being made. Lol if you think fascists care about money I've got a Kanye to sell you.

Also both Hitler and Mussolini had their major corporations taking over by supporters. So the money never really stopped flowing.

Also lol @ socialism taking over. What's that look like?

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Revolutionary-Toe789 t1_j08cwda wrote

There isn’t much left so say.

I guess one of us will be shown right. Either country continues on as is for a while longer, or a fascist takes over.

Time will tell.

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