I ran across a thread yesterday that is the perfect description of the Republican Party. They want to tell everyone else what they can and cannot do, but ferociously guard against anyone telling them what to do - (see covid-19) - all of this in the name of "freedom"?
I ran across a thread yesterday that is the perfect description of the Republican Party. They want to tell everyone else what they can and cannot do, but ferociously guard against anyone telling them what to do - (see covid-19) - all of this in the name of "freedom"?
Voters in Missouri have been repeatedly “silenced” by a Republican controlled state government. Everything from Health care expansion to puppy mill regulation passed the electorate handily, but the Republican government obstructs absolutely. In Kansas the R party simply determined (like several state R parties) to not hold a presidential primary in 2020. The party would select the candidate (DT didnt carry the 2016 pres primary here as decisively as one might think). Why do even intelligent people decide that their party id dictates their vote? I know of lawyers who, while chagrined by the party’s candidates, shrug and say (helplessly), “Im a Republican. I cant vote for the other guy.” Why not?
But your party chooses to tell you whats best - says & does exactly what its power structure
demands - and calls it “defending freedom”. The disconnect is astounding. The acceptance is disheartening. Clearly democracy requires way too much personal responsibility (& knowledge?). Civics education is almost non existent, even in our most highly rated school districts. We are free to be ignorant, ignored and manipulated, I guess.
I ran across a thread yesterday that is the perfect description of the Republican Party. They want to tell everyone else what they can and cannot do, but ferociously guard against anyone telling them what to do - (see covid-19) - all of this in the name of "freedom"?
Voters in Missouri have been repeatedly “silenced” by a Republican controlled state government. Everything from Health care expansion to puppy mill regulation passed the electorate handily, but the Republican government obstructs absolutely. In Kansas the R party simply determined (like several state R parties) to not hold a presidential primary in 2020. The party would select the candidate (DT didnt carry the 2016 pres primary here as decisively as one might think). Why do even intelligent people decide that their party id dictates their vote? I know of lawyers who, while chagrined by the party’s candidates, shrug and say (helplessly), “Im a Republican. I cant vote for the other guy.” Why not?
But your party chooses to tell you whats best - says & does exactly what its power structure
demands - and calls it “defending freedom”. The disconnect is astounding. The acceptance is disheartening. Clearly democracy requires way too much personal responsibility (& knowledge?). Civics education is almost non existent, even in our most highly rated school districts. We are free to be ignorant, ignored and manipulated, I guess.