Oh lord, the Republican Party attempted to end the republic? How can I take you seriously now?
Yes, and the fact that you don’t realize this shows why you’re part of the problem.
The former president of the United States when confronted with a lost election manufactured false claims that it was stolen from him and then attempted to have election officials alter the vote counts to make him the winner. When they refused, he then attempted to have the Vice President and Congress refuse to certify the election so that the states could then overturn the election. A large percentage of elected officials were on board with this. What do you call the chief executive trying to extralegally overturn the results of an election he lost?
All of this is uncontested fact. You never answered me before, but I think it might help you understand the situation better. If Republicans control Congress and the presidency and we have an election identical to 2020 where the Democrats win are you certain they will turn over power? I’m definitely not.
Every thing I listed earlier is part of the growing dysfunction. If you think the Dem party hasn't heavily contributed to our current political shithole over the last few decades, then I'd just suggest that people who are the problem can’t see the problem. Yep, the GOP is worse... but if you think I'm going to support a lousy party because the opposition is worse, well, I'm not. I demand better.
For those of you who are pleased with a party and/or its candidate, there is not much for me to say. Congrats. I am not arguing petty politics, and if people like their candidate, then good for them. If you like Biden and you like half of Congress... whatever (but wow). I am reaching out to the non-partisans that realize our horrible state of politics in general is the result of a crooked two party system (and all those things on my list) that has created polarized gridlock and endless conflict that drags down our economy, our discourse, and our spirits. We understand that being forced into 2 increasingly shitty choices is tearing this country apart. The Dem Party cannot fix the toxic dysfunction and make things better. It'll be people like me or it'll be collapse.
You can’t fix the problem because you can’t see or understand the problem. Really, you’re part of the problem because you’re enabling it.
Like I said in my first post people like to think that the enlightened position is to #bothsides this issue because they think this makes them non-partisan. What it really makes them is naive.
Let me suggest you check this book out. It explains what I’m talking about in more detail.
en.m.wikipedia.org
The authors describe the [Republican] party as "an
insurgent outlier – ideologically extreme; contemptuous of the inherited social and economic policy regime; scornful of compromise; unpersuaded by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.”
That is the problem, right there.