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marylandblue

(12,344 posts)
1. Many of them do not want to live in a democracy
Tue Apr 3, 2018, 07:00 PM
Apr 2018

Democracy is messy and requires thinking and compromise. Better just to be told what to do. And if you don't agree, they have ways of taking care of troublemakers like you.

Gothmog

(145,288 posts)
3. This quote is from the idiot who founded ALEC and the Heritage Foundation
Tue Apr 3, 2018, 07:01 PM
Apr 2018

Voter suppression is part of the GOP game plan

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
4. Yeah, that is a classic for sure. I guess the true answer is they dont
Tue Apr 3, 2018, 07:04 PM
Apr 2018

a. care about democracy

b. know what it is

c. care about anything but themselves

and

d. dont realize voting for the GOP is suicide

AJT

(5,240 posts)
5. Back in the day the republicans, the 1% and corporations, loved fascism
Tue Apr 3, 2018, 07:20 PM
Apr 2018

they were big Mussolini fans. There was even a plot led by some corporate big wigs to overthrow FDR.

VOX

(22,976 posts)
6. Vintage right-wing internet chestnut: "America isn't a democracy, it's a republic."
Tue Apr 3, 2018, 07:40 PM
Apr 2018

Of course it's both, but they don't give a shit about the democracy part. They want their lives ordered, and want to be told what to think and do. They are intellectually dead, and have no interest in finding out things for themselves.

When it comes to their religious choices, they want the Old Testament "Gawd-duh," who kills and torments people, and makes them slog through all sorts of demoralizing tests to prove their love and loyalty. Which brings everything around to Trump, and why they adore him.

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