Lol, welp, sounds great. I am a pretty big fan of conservatives being right there in your face with their shit. Don't let them hide behind some low tax small government excuse. I hope they culture war hard on this and their anti gay and trans stances. Make people take a hard look at themselves and their views.
As much as I personally dislike it in practice, I find the bare-faced power grabs and occasional blurting of scabrous truths to be refreshing, compared to the daily mental sheep-dipping they give their voters / parishioners / employees.
Sanity requires that I remember that ALL the noise is coming from the OVERTHROW party and its operatives (who amount to ~27% of eligible citizens): the relentless, blatant fabulation & history-erasure employed by the Overthrow party chips away at every ‘conservative’ voter…and a lot of principled older people - the long-term core of the republican party, the ones who learned civics in school - find themselves hard-pressed to ignore that, more and more, the people and policies they’re expected to vote for are diametrically opposed to everything they grew up believing about the USA.
Commentators & analysts consistently ignore the fundamental rift in a base of support that only deepens and widens under the continued assault on American values being pushed daily by the domestic enemies of the Overthrow party, which now rules the Republican Party(tm) lock, stock, and barrel. The public display of naked avarice for power and control put on daily by the usual quislings constitutes the most outrageous barrage *against* ANY sort of honest feeling of national pride ever applied to any population in the ‘free world’…and the danger that poses to the rickety shack we call the GOP voter base is ignored - the very great danger to the public waved away as wishful thinking in a Trump-dominated world…which is, frankly, bullshit.
One thing we can be sure of is that ~70% of the legendarily loyal GOP voter is in turmoil as the J6 investigation moves toward public hearings, and as the lunatics wrest control of state after state away from saner, steadier hands & women face the clear and present danger of their personal autonomy being reversed….
I’ve gone on at some length about GOP voter reaction to the Watergate hearings, so I won’t repeat; I will tell a short story about my dad.
He was a staunch conservative, a proudly white southern man of the sort who came back alive from WW2 battlefields, a man of education, of training, of what they used to call ‘good moral character’. We never saw things the same, and the fights started when I was 7 or 8, but we can skip those; he never backed down, he never doubted himself…so mostly we agreed to stay away from things that would start fights.
Cue the Watergate. Spent a lot of time watching the hearings, sometimes with my dad, mostly not. one day, I was watching Sam Rayburn dig into one of the White House staff about the outrageous cover story of the moment - the hearings were knee-deep in investigating the coverup at that point. Dad came in sat down, listened for a while - in silence, as we’d never talked about any of it up to that point.
Following one particular effective stab, “I don’t believe it!” Came tumbling out of his mouth. I was astonished - how could he POSSIBLY believe, at this point, that Nixon knew nothing about any of it???
”I just can’t believe Nixon knew nothing. It’s just not possible, he couldn’t have avoided knowing, its bullshit!” The first time I ever heard him cuss. Now I was even more astonished: the hearings and their revelations battered away his ability to pretend he wasn’t seeing and hearing what he was seeing and hearing.
GOP lost BIG in the next 2-3 elections. Because of people like my dad. He didn’t change his politics, or most of his views, but he changed what he was willing to put up with from his own party.
Note - news cycles are distorted by polls. Political polls are designed to get the answers desired by those burying the poll. If you’ve ever taken any, you’ll know just how little they care about the actual views or opinions of those they poll.
Don’t be distracted.
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