That might be the most ill-informed take I’ve ever read about the state of American politics. In fact, I’m 99% sure most of these high volume posters are simply bots to do some wacky spin jobs, propagate anger and tension, and thereby increase engagement.
Maher is a liberal, progressive who supports the ACLU (small ‘L’ libertarians) and is simply not obsessed with identity politics and virtue signaling. Democrats are fiscally conservative… the way they govern, to be metaphorical, can basically be likened to preventative care. If you’re responsible, get regular checkups, dental cleanings, oil changes for your car, etc, then sure, you’re doing a lot of SPENDING. But everything’s gonna be relatively stable, so you do some taxation along with it and you may balance the budget sometimes. Republicans are instead the equivalent of wrecking ball behavior, chain-smoking, pussy-grabbing, being lazy, gluttonous and obese. Then they end up in the ER being told they need a $100,000 procedure to prevent chronic pain or fatal illness. Or, asking a relative to put up their house for bail money. That’s Weapons of Mass Destruction. Regime change in Iraq. Withdrawal of Paris Climate Accords. “Mexico is gonna pay for it.” The January 6th insurrection.
Does anyone really believe that we’re 30 trillion in debt because of food stamps, Medicaid, and homeless shelters serving soup?
Deregulation and corporate welfare is the root of the Republican Party (and Libertarian) folly, and it always costs more money in the end when the shit hits the fan.
Also, censorship is not a government policy. Citizens are allowed to be woke or advocate wokeness. This is not some socialist agenda that is part of the Democratic Party platform. Basically, by “cancel culture” you’re talking about personal private or commercial boycotts, essentially. These are individual citizens or private institutions doing what they please such as banning Trump from their social media platform or not inviting Milo Yiannopolis and Ann Coulter to give an undergraduate orientation. Who cares? You can find their trash manifestos in the public libraries if you desire. To argue against this, whether with Executive, Legislative or Judical policy would be fascist or otherwise some form of criminal authoritarianism that encapsulates the current state of GOP talking points.
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FilmBuff (6738)
3 months ago
There's nowhere even to begin responding to this. You have such a warped and inaccurate sense of how things work that it would be impossible to even find common ground on which to start discussing anything. I'm sure you'll dismiss everything I'm writing and smugly tell yourself how right you are and how wrong I am, but all I see is an unfortunate victim of a lifetime of believing what his TV has told him. You're living proof of how invasive and ruinous the media is.
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