• Tigbitties@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Some of these people need an enemy so bad they can’t see past their own clenched fist. I also believe they’ve put so much effort into clenching they think it would be a waste to unclench it before hitting something. You could offer then a lifetime of peace and prosperity and they’d turn it down. The worst part is that they’re dragging good folk down with them.

    • crusa187@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I think it’s more so that Rs don’t have any popular policy proposals whatsoever. Fuck up your kids’ access to education and healthcare? Strip you of every last dollar and funnel it all to the billionaire ruler class?

      These are incredibly unpopular positions, so instead they galvanize support by strawmanning “the others” as some kind of threat which must be stopped.