Casar: One of the most important things I learned is how so many of the most right-wing elected officials break things, do not want services to work, and then campaign on them being broken in order to gain political power.
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Yep entirely too many dams have gone right along with it and done nothing to defend public institutions. Not all, but so many that it taints the entire party. They need to get a handle on it. Primary the regressive losers. Support the ones who really bring results for labor.
This isn’t new thought process for the MAGA’s…it’s always the “let’s create a bunch of fires…that can’t all be put out at once, but after they’re mostly out w/o their help, they sweep in & act like they saved the day…& in DJT’s words “Only he can save/fix” things🙄🙄🙄whatever dude…the🇺🇸is already great
Certainly doesn't speak well to the citizens who see this, who experience this, who know this and STILL VOTES FOR THESE PEOPLE! Exactly, who are these people and please ask them why the self inflicted, whiny do overs. Damn, we've had enough. Pls have ENOUGH now!
LOL, it's been that way for years. You would think Democrats would say: "YOU BROKE THIS, the thing you are complaining about YOU BROKE IT!". Instead they play defense and it's why we are in the state we are in. You had Trump blame everything everywhere on the Democrats and they just took it.
It's arson. Breaking it on purpose to prove it doesn't work. Can you imagine using sabotage at your job and getting away with it? No, I'd be shown the door!
Sadly many private sector companies do this. It’s their mantra to succe$$. And what’s horrifying is they destroy so many people’s lives along the way.
Resist this playbook in our Government!
Privatizing adds a profit motive so you either get less service for the same money or you get the same service for more money. Makes no sense to me, at all.
PRIVATIZATION OF EVERYTHING IS THE DECREE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, SINCE REGAN THEIR FAVORITE MOTTO
HAS BEEN. WHAT'S THE MOST TERRIFYING STATEMENT EVER
Yep. Idiot team owner near me got two different states to fund a practice facility that he then abandoned, claiming the city didn't provide enough sidewalks. What. The. Fuck.
Breaking government (USPS, SSA, Medicaid, NOAA [the weatherman], even NASA) is part of the oligarch/GOP strategy to privatize and profit from things we get for our taxes at very efficient returns! With 'accountability' from those in charge.
Good grief... what are these “dreams” such diabolical people have? That countless millions of oldsters will be forced back into the workforce? That untold numbers of old people will simply die because they can’t afford their meds? That the homeless population (which they despise) will soar? Madness.
Diabolically evil. I see them making a move to privatize SS the same way they stuck their greedy bastard fingers into Medicare with the "Advantage" plan, which is rife with fraud and only serves to enrich the robber barons while they deny coverage for things that are covered under Parts A & B.
I often hear that as an explanation, but it’s unrelatable. Not being a dreadful sociopath or hubristic and maniacally evil person, I just cannot grasp the concept of “controlling” other people to enact my will. The very thought of it is repulsive, both on a visceral and intellectual level.
I often think that we wouldn’t be in this situation if the rest of us had been able to really grasp what it is these people are trying to do. It’s just so unimaginable. But it’s real.
I am constantly amazed by the number of people who didn’t (and maybe even now still don’t) take this man seriously AND literally and continue believing the fiction that “it can’t happen here” despite the abundance of evidence of their eyes and ears that we are witnessing a fascist coup in progress.
Presidential power. Those are the dreams they've been working on since Reagan was in office and Trump even employees some of the same people Reagan did.
A single person is easier to manipulate and control than a Congress so they've been consolidating power. The office of the pres should be hobbled
As it was meant to be via the separation of powers. Something which, now, unfortunately is being trammeled over with abandon (that is, when not willingly surrendered).
A “reasonable” Congress… Hmm. What a curious notion. Being a representative body, that would by nature require, what… a “reasonable” electorate? Is such a thing likely to happen in present-day America where misinformed idiots prevail? Time will tell...
It's all about convincing people the best thing to do is to privatize EVERYTHING & let the oligarchs own @ control our country. Think kings & serfs in Medieval times.
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The last DECENT republican was Ike.
The Republicans developed a severe mental disfigurement with Goldwater- a fascist ahead of his time. (or 40 years too late; take your pick)
They don't want public services to work because - while they might benefit society at large- they can't make any money from them. Chomsky says the standard technique of privatisation is to defund, make sure things deteriorate to the extent people get angry and then hand it over to private capital.
Honestly it backfires for everyone but the utmost propagandized (by family old religions, fox news zealhate addiction etc. all at once) who also happen to be too busy to care or notice real events. That's the only target. Everyone else knows better, sees reality or can read people even a tiny bit.
I'm in my mid-40s, and we have spent ~87% of my life with either Republicans in control or split government (president one party Congress another, or split Congress).
And 23 states are Repub trifecta vs 15 Dem.
So while voter suppression is a big issue, I question it's to blame for 100% of that.
Not my own chart, I should say, but it explains why this works so neatly.
If we ever actually learned how to blame Republicans for when Republicans break or obstruct things, it just would flat out no longer work as a tactic. They'd be forced to actually help do things.
30 years of being beaten down by cries of "LIBRUL MEDIA!" and billionaire takeovers, and now your media is absolutely PETRIFIED of the idea of blaming Republicans for anything. Notice that when the Repubs are in charge, the problem is always "Congress"?
Hence why I said 30 years. It goes back to Gingrich and his "paint Dems as the enemy and call the media 'the liberal media' at every opportunity" plan to win House control.
That's why I like Carney in Canada. He just states the facts, he doesn't even have to make the stuff up, but he says it. He calls the buffoons out. He corrects things right away, and he doesn't give into journalists who left their integrity in a suitcase under the stairs.
Exactly, they rig things so that the agencies can't function properly, or the services or whatever. Then, when they fail to work, because they were set up to fail, then the Republicans say they need to be shut down because they don't work anyway. Musk is doing this now with Social Security.
Since Reagan this has been a prominent tactic: also, tank the economy but effects used to take until late in their terms so they could blame the recession on the Dem that inherited it. Then W came along: they couldn't wait long enough, the crash happened before he left. Every Repub caused recession.
Politicians would rather have a crisis to win elections than a working public service to actually help people. Sounds like a clever, if devious, campaign strategy. The 'broken system' card, played to win power instead of fixing the real issues.
Both parties are guilty of doing zero about the issues till election time, including democrats doing nothing to stop the years of corporate price gouging, she was "going to fix on day one", & Biden vowed to codify roe in the 3rd year, but only if voters showed up to let them win. It's why they lost!
The democrats didn't lift a finger to help the people, & instead helped the genocidal maniac Netanyahu as he murdered children & babies & families for 4 years, instead of codifying roe, raising minimum wage, expand the Supreme Court, or stop 4 years of corporate price gouging! That's why they lost!!
Sure. They know just the people to fix what’s broken. Privatize, do it poorly, pay their workers less, and somehow have it cost more in the end, while they enjoy their kickbacks and tax evasion.
That's it in a nutshell. Break government and claim that it doesn't work, and only they can fix it. How many more times will the ignorant American electorate fall for that. Rinse and repeat!
Right wing cynicism has developed for decades, since before the Tea Party Republicans (arguably MAGA's predecessor), at least since the oligarchic invention of the "trickle down" economic idiot lunacy and Grover Norquist "shrink government enough to drown it in a bathtub" sentiment.
The US Constitution was conceived under armed guard and sworn secrecy to frame a "limited monarchy" that would protect the "well bred" against a "tyranny of the majority." And Madison only reluctantly added the Bill of Rights as an afterthought.
Texas politics in a nutshell. “Elect republicans so we can fix the government!”
Bitches, y’all had the state government locked in as republicans for the last few decades, YOU broke it!
The one thing they will never have is love or the ability to behold beauty or anything else that makes us human. They can't be loved so they compensate by forcing others to bow to them. It is a twisted form of jealousy.
Like their plan to defund public schools. They've been planning this for a long time. They want an uneducated peasant class working for the 1%. That's their plan and it's been their plan for as long as I can remember. I taught college from 2006-2019 and saw the steep decline in literacy. It worked.
Once a conservative is able to truly open their eyes to all of this it’s reminiscent of the scales falling from Saul’s eyes or Neo using his eyes for the first time. Allegorical.
I believe I used to live in his district…check out that gentrification on your own. Just wow.
"The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it."
Greg Casar is a 35 yr old freshman representative from Texas this is his first term He is the chair of the progressive caucus & fighting alongside AOC & Bernie
I’ll say he is doing fantastic & we need more of him
Man, that teared me up. That's an articultae woman right there. She should run for office.
I don't know what to do to get people to stop blindly supporting the MUsk-truMP, aka MUMP, regime. The tsunami of catastrophe that is coming is going to kill a lot of people.
Yes, they claimed the Biden was allowing too many immigrants in at the border. The plan to fix was the border was broken by Trump. So he could say that Biden allowed too many immigrants in. It's a self-licking ice cream cone.
I trued to explain this tactic to people all through the 1980s & 1990s, NO ONE LISTENED.
I have been sounding multiple alarms for over 4 decades. I do not understand why people won't listen to me with my proven track record of correct analysis.
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We've never gone 100% in.
We've had zero social programs/education and semi-funded social programs/education. Neither worked. Let's try fully funding things the way they were intended to be and see if that is better!
(It will be!).
Too bad religion and disgusting ideologies get in the way.
In the last 3 elections the largest demographic for the Republicans were white men and woman who's greatest educational achievements are that some of them have a HS education. That's who elected Trump - Ppl with college degrees are outnumbered.
The largest demographic for Dems has been post-grads.
They sure did and the entire nation is getting a lesson in how important it is to vote right now. I bet the mid-term breaks records for mid-term voting.
If he sends out stimulus checks you might be right but they can only afford to lose a few seats or they lose control of Congress. It's possible for them to take the House and the Senate and if they don't, his second half will be much worse.
America's great "rugged individualism" makes us selfish.
Yep conservatives are the reason we can't have nice things... or anything. I'm sorry but if you're not a millionaire or billionaire and you vote republican you are stupid with respect to politics. Just remember you don't get to bitch about anything. You deserve every bad thing that happens.
No, the real problem is that the government does a lot of things precisely *because* they're not profitable so the private sector won't do them. There's a reason USPS is the last leg of the journey for a lot of rural deliveries from places like Amazon.
"The Lost Liberal Decade, when housing costs skyrocketed". Reality:
Housing cost increases under Liberals: 45%
Housing cost increases under Conservatives: 70%
Pierre was the Housing Minister during the above; his JOB was to lower housing costs.
That's been a long term R strategy going back to at least Reagan. Underfund and cripple an agency then claim government doesn't work when they're the ones who hobbled it. 🙄
Trump employs, literally, some of the same people who worked on consolidating power under President Reagan. They worked for HW and W Bush too. Project 2025 has been in the works since Reagan.
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I just bought a picture frame from Michael’s. I go home to hang it myself. Elon breaks into my house, walks over, breaks the frame in two and takes my hammer.
Trump rides in to rescue;
Over promises, under delivers, goes on rampage to blame his predecessors.
If miraculously fixed by others, takes credit for his genius solutions.
Lies and takes credit for fudged results, comes out smelling like a rose(wearing loaded depends).
Ignores problem using WHPS
Exactly!! Remember all the GOP Congress people taking to social media last year yelling at Biden for not releasing FEMA funds? You know, the ones THEY voted AGAINST having in the budget? Meanwhile, Biden was happy to sign it but it had to pass Congress 1st.
FOX NEWS: Trump views Cat 5 hurricane damage that devastated 5 southern states. He helped by tossing rolls of paper towels from a helicopter. Later, during his press conference, he blamed Biden & Obama for singlehandedly dismantling FEMA 4 red states ONLY.
Especially considering the people who have formed Maga are those most likely to shoot minorities crossing a bridge after a hurricane. So we will see right wing violence used as an excuse for government violence. We're in a very lovely predicament.
They want to privatize EVERYTHING that’s the point. The more things they can “break” the more they can monopolize and capitalize on it. Gov gives free regulated services to everyone. It’s the bane of their existence
Tell democrats to find a better audio system while doing this if not theirs then tell them to start traveling around with one we live in 2025 make the message loud and able to he heard and understood.
The missing part is how they funnel all of our hard earned money into their own pockets in the process, while also buying up everything they broke for pennies on the dollar.
That' the playbook of a totalitarian regime. 'Only I can fix it', and they they get voted in, and then everybody has buyer's remorse but it's too late.
The Trumpist “Republican” party is cynicism in its most purest form. Basically, just a bunch of arsonists criticizing the Fire Department, which they’d previously underfunded and deliberately hobbled in a myriad of ways that prevent them from responding effectively.
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They break it, then criticize as terribly run (... by them...), and argue its rrwaon to privatize.
Resist this playbook in our Government!
HAS BEEN. WHAT'S THE MOST TERRIFYING STATEMENT EVER
( IM FROM THE GOVERNMENT AND I'M HERE TO HELP )
The right-wing media echo chamber must be shattered thru whatever means will break it and don't give a fuck about legalities.
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Privatisation is theft.
Many politicians play that game.
Calling them on it every time is the best way to defeat them.
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A single person is easier to manipulate and control than a Congress so they've been consolidating power. The office of the pres should be hobbled
The Republicans developed a severe mental disfigurement with Goldwater- a fascist ahead of his time. (or 40 years too late; take your pick)
Our voting results in my lifetime that were majority in favor of Republicans, shows otherwise.
And 23 states are Repub trifecta vs 15 Dem.
So while voter suppression is a big issue, I question it's to blame for 100% of that.
If we ever actually learned how to blame Republicans for when Republicans break or obstruct things, it just would flat out no longer work as a tactic. They'd be forced to actually help do things.
Paul Krugman was making observations about the "Cult of Centrism" in our media that favored Republicans back in *2011*.
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Not gonna end well.
If we do survive, another free and fair election is held, and Dems regain power, my sign will say “Least first everywhere!”
When you win the war but lose the revolution...
Bitches, y’all had the state government locked in as republicans for the last few decades, YOU broke it!
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/peaceful-parenting/202102/narcissism-and-the-hero-and-victim-complex
I believe I used to live in his district…check out that gentrification on your own. Just wow.
P. J. O'Rourke, conservative journalist
I’ll say he is doing fantastic & we need more of him
It’s SO much easier …
just to bitch about stuff …
than to actually work on things and focus on solutions.
I don't know what to do to get people to stop blindly supporting the MUsk-truMP, aka MUMP, regime. The tsunami of catastrophe that is coming is going to kill a lot of people.
I have been sounding multiple alarms for over 4 decades. I do not understand why people won't listen to me with my proven track record of correct analysis.
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Their need to belong to a mass, to worship someone, to be commanded, & to hate the "other".
US vs Them. Screaming at sports teams.
The lack of empathy for the "other".
Odd...
We've had zero social programs/education and semi-funded social programs/education. Neither worked. Let's try fully funding things the way they were intended to be and see if that is better!
(It will be!).
Too bad religion and disgusting ideologies get in the way.
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This attitude & result is decades in the making. The US electorate proved them right.
The largest demographic for Dems has been post-grads.
There is a whole swath of population that don't care about anything or anybody but themselves.
People are fickle, desperate & broke. They love their instant gratifications. We'll see.
America's great "rugged individualism" makes us selfish.
The Nazi loving cult is out to destroy America.
How very strange.
Housing cost increases under Liberals: 45%
Housing cost increases under Conservatives: 70%
Pierre was the Housing Minister during the above; his JOB was to lower housing costs.
Don’t forget that George W Bush tried to privatize Social Security in 2005.
I just bought a picture frame from Michael’s. I go home to hang it myself. Elon breaks into my house, walks over, breaks the frame in two and takes my hammer.
Then he says “That’s broke, I can fix it.”
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Sounds about right.
Sounds like I need to kick his ass out of here.
Over promises, under delivers, goes on rampage to blame his predecessors.
If miraculously fixed by others, takes credit for his genius solutions.
Lies and takes credit for fudged results, comes out smelling like a rose(wearing loaded depends).
Ignores problem using WHPS
They are SUCH tools.
My suspicion is that Drumph will use that as his excuse to cancel elections and send the military in.
They will fall for it hook line & sinker
It’s the conservative playbook: break something, then campaign on fixing what is broken (while blaming everyone else for it) to stay in power.
They are nothing if not predictable.
MAGA agenda 101
Find something that works very well.
Break it.
Hand it to your cronies to loot.
great for capitalism
not so much for government
Get smarter, dumbasses.
#IntegrityCounts