What Does the G.O.P. Have Against America?
What Does the G.O.P. Have Against America?
Self-proclaimed patriots keep trash-talking their own country.
Nice try, New York Times
You can’t pretend you all of a sudden realized that Trump is a threat to all of American democracy and relay it to us like it’s breaking news and hope we’ll be gaslit into thanking you for informing us because we were not aware, and forget about all the coverage up until yesterday where you were explicitly favoring him for some horrifying reason
It's Paul Krugman. He's been talking about how awful Trump is since at least 2016
were explicitly favoring him for some horrifying reason
I'm at work on a short break so I can't pull up the source, but the guy whose family "runs" the NYTs has said he's looking to court conservative readers. He has denied this somewhat recently, but the trend matches the behavior we witnessed l. I found this by trying to figure out who owns the NYT to begin with so maybe start with the wiki on NYT
Although I don’t at all agree with its central thesis about the Times, this article goes into a good bit of the history and the behind the scenes. I talked in the comments about what I think is mistaken about the article, but you can still learn a lot about the Times from reading the facts it is basing its incorrect conclusions on.
They hate America as it is, but they love America as it used to be, or, more accurately, they love the sanitized, propagandized version of how America used to be. They want to return America to its former supposed glory.
Frankly, I hate America as it is, also, but I don't want to go back to some fantasy golden era, I just want the country to be better.
Sometimes I feel like I'm sitting in a dirty, cluttered, dilapidated house with two other people. I say to them, "this place is a mess, this is totally unacceptable, we need to clean this place and fix it up." The person in the middle says, "What are you talking about? Everything's fine." The person on the right says, "If this place is a mess, it's because you two strayed too far from this household's traditional values, and if we're going to return this home to its former glory, you two must embrace those values. If you don't, I'm going to kill you." It's frustrating, depressing, and terrifying.
So, if I'm understanding your meaning with this comic, you would say that I, the person on the left, don't recognize that the house is actually in fine order, and that I want change for the sake of change, or because I'm just a malcontent, and if I try to bring about the change I want, I will end up creating chaos and disorder?
The real answer is that over the decades of progressively more ossified leadership, Republicans have moved to the conservative position of ruling rather than representing. If something prevents them from ruling, then they dismantle it. The final obstacle preventing them from ruling is democracy itself.
A movement which sees affinity in strong-man governments around the world. They view Putin (or Orban/ Kim / Xi, and even Modi now) as a model for what they’d like to bring about domestically.
Single party rule, sometimes with the facade of an opposition party. This is their end goal.
They're jaded because America has largely rejected their social platforms and failed economically under their policies.
The GOP is unpopular, vilified, and hopelessly devoid of merit or integrity. They've decided that the only way to win America is to beat her into submission.
They're sore losers; they're losing at history, and at governance. This is their revenge.
I don't think they have anything against America specifically. They just seem to want to cash in as much as possible, which is fairly standard for politicians in general.
Seems like the big difference is that they're increasingly able to get away with stuff that would have otherwise ended their political career or straight up put them behind bars...
I don’t think they have anything against America specifically.
Depends on who's america you're referring to. A vibrant diverse multicultural melting pot? HAHA NO.
A white christo-fascist theocracy? The GOP's down for that.
My take is that they think that by sharing the cake with others, it means less for themselves. It's self serving greed and an inability to grasp that we are better as a joint community than as a collective of individuals.
They want "America" to mean "cis white straight Christian males are at the top, and everyone else is either second class or dead."
No, they want corporations to rule and line their pockets, even more than they already do.
Racism, religion, sexism, and all the other fear & hate, are just useful tools to rile up voters, and pull the wool over their eyes.They want both. There are many in power who are true believers of the religious stuff, as evidenced by the SCROTUS decision to ban abortion, which has no monetary benefit. There would, however, have been a benefit to keeping it legal, as outrage fuel for the base. Now that the dog's caught the car, they've lost that benefit.
You can't manipulate the laws easily enough,and dirty money is traced and collected.
The GOP wants this to be more like China and Russia, they see these untouchable oligarchs and their little crooked dicks get hard.
The elitists that provide the funding behind movement conservatism and their think tanks, professors, etc., have long had it in for everything America is really supposed to stand for. They hate this country and most of the people in it.
It's ironic because cons are associated with symbolic manipulation (things like bits of colored cloth and songs and associated ritual movements) that leads (low-info) people to think they are the patriots that are for freedom and love the Constitution.
How the hell do you expect their "fix America" message to land if it isn't broken in the first place?
