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If you’re continuously stunned by the behavior of gerrymandered GOP representatives in the world of Citizens United, don’t be.
Here’s how to think of them:
They are no longer public servants.
Improving public outcomes is not their goal. Nor do they do better in life…
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If you’re continuously stunned by the behavior of gerrymandered GOP representatives in the world of Citizens United, don’t be.
Here’s how to think of them:
They are no longer public servants.
Improving public outcomes is not their goal. Nor do they do better in life…
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life in a corpocracy.
This is observable in bth parties
Capricious gerrymandering + the corrosive influence of $ in political campaigns is what got us here & fixing thos 2 issues is the only thing tht will get us out
In fact, if they serve the public interest, they will likely be primaried. And lose.
Think of them as the servants of certain private interests. See that they are in public office to use public power to benefit those private interests.
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When those public outcomes fall, it doesn’t impact them at all.
Because they’re in districts they can’t lose.
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That’s basically the career path of people like Jon Husted. (Now Ohio’s Senator). Disastrous public outcomes but pleased and enriched private interests.
We lose. He advances.
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It’s just a giveaway: public power and public assets enriching private interests.
Once you see that that’s their role, everything flows from there.
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They are there to hand over public power to private interests.
That is what they will do.
And they will be rewarded for doing so, and punished for serving public outcomes.
Once you see that…
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privatize profit, socialize loss
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Cut any service that educates or protects people, especially if it can be profited upon via privatization once it is ruined. Generate fear, then outrage. Blame Dems for what you did. Protect the oligarchy. Rinse and repeat.
insecure white males hanging on their high school “glory days” protected and carried by the donors (boosters) as long as they win
the good ole boys club
It will take a lot of effort and some fundamental changes to repel & reverse da situation.
We need to look at what other countries have done, copy the best parts of theirs and toss our outdated relic.
Autocracy (with them on top)
Pleasure (for them)
Pain (for others from which they derive pleasure)
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no idea why Ohio lost its mind. i guess last of FDR generation dying off killed it.
The only good Republican is one who doesn't hold office and doesn't vote.
1. Reverse Citizens United
2. Remove Felon & cronies from WH & Congress
3. Get new SCOTUS with a modicum of ethics
We have some work to do!!
1) The Roberts Court
2) Trump/MAGA
3) The DNC
All of these are major enemies
of the working class, and they
all gotta go.
Gobsmacked. We've handed the nation, thereby most of the free world, to 7th grade boys, without either self-restraint or an a$$kicker of a Mom to stop them.
And the world's leadership is mostly "derp."
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