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It is your father’s Republican Party. They’ve ~~always~~ (since before your dad was born) been about power for the in crowd (and nothing else). They’ve just gotten farther than ever with their goal.
Edit: fixed timeframe
Well, not always, but long enough back that it's probably not a meaningful distinction anymore.
Today's Republicans are yesterday's Dixiecrats.
Kinda sad that Republicans put all their bets on racism and won with the southern strategy.
eh, I feel like "won" is an exaggeration. The Republicans have discovered that you can keep like a third of Americans on your side just by being racist, even if your policies mostly hurt that 33%. That's terrifying, sure, but if Democrats hadn't sold out the working class in the 90s to corporate interests, the remaining 66% could successfully keep them out of power.
What we're seeing is the natural end result of ignoring many different issues. It looks good for the Republicans now, since they have no competition, but that other two-thirds keeps growing and getting angrier.
That's the problem with the 2-party system, isn't it? One party can decide to be objectively terrible, and the other party discovers that it only needs to be ever-so-slightly better, because what are the 66% gonna do— vote for the greater evil?! And there's a lot of personal benefit to the party insiders to be had! Trouble is, when the margin between the two parties is so small, electoral fuckery by the terrible party, and stochastic events mean that they sometimes win.
Which seems awfully familiar.
Here fucking here, I'm tired of this revisionist history that only now are the Republicans Nazis. I've been hearing all the same propaganda from my dumbass father for my entire life, and I'm 34 now. Every racist I've met in those 34 years has been conservative, every person I've encountered that owns swastika/confederate memorabilia has been a conservative, they have always been proud to be the ones who wish death on everyone who isn't Christian, and they are the people who have been against everything even remotely off course of completely heterosexual (gays existing to gays marrying to now trans people existing). They are every form of bigoted, hateful and ignorant and it's not even REMOTELY new.
this is what happens when you softball confederates and german nazis for corporate profit