There are no moderate Republicans in the House of Representatives.
Oh, no doubt some members are privately appalled by the views of Mike Johnson, the new speaker. But what they think in the privacy of their own minds isn’t important. What matters is what they do — and every single one of them went along with the selection of a radical extremist.
yep ’ liberal conservative’ === ’ conservative democrat’…
like, if these groups sat down they would realize they have the same agenda. but the ‘party’ gets in the way of actual discourse… of actually getting things that need to be done accomplished.
i know, cuz i hate them both. they fucked over bernie. im at the ‘let the world burn’ stage of my life after hoping for 40 years.
looking back, after what obama and pals did to usurp the last movement in bernie, the united states deserves the cluster fuck that is what trump hath wrought.
Yeah, fuck all those many, MANY people who will suffer terribly! I’m upset about Bernie so let it all burn. /s
Yeah enjoy the civil unrest and insecurity. Remember the toilet paper nonsense when covid kicked off? There are members of congress who’ve openly talked about political violence being inevitable. Things will probably get much worse before they get better.
I’ve been legitimately telling my trans/PoC/whatever friends that now is the time to arm yourself and start networking with like-minded people because the right has been doing it for decades. They have connections and established support, both material and propaganda. They do not believe people different than them should exist or should exist as a “lesser” class.
I for one am not looking forward to going underground and trying to survive/resist the Christian Fascism that’s trying to grow up in America. Go vote and take your friends with you. Agitate for change, the silent majority never existed, they’re just a loud minority.
I’ve been learning a foreign language in preparation for emigrating for 3 years now.
I’m not giving up on my home. Injustice anywhere is unacceptable, and while I can’t blame people who do what the must to survive, I personally won’t leave the US.
Yeah, I’d feel the same way if I didn’t have a mixed-race family to worry about.
Where would you go?
Well, I’m not sure. I’m learning French, but that’s less because I have specific goals for Metropolitan France and more because, as a silver lining of colonialism, there are a bunch of French-speaking tropical islands evenly-scattered around the world. Even before Trump, I was thinking of early-retiring onto a sailboat and visiting some of them.
In a shorter term, “flee the US” sort of situation it’d be more about finding a job in any first-world country that would have me, whether I knew the language or not. (Paris or Montreal would be high priorities though, since I like what they’re doing with their bike infrastructure and such.)
Oh that’s cool, yeah a French speaking country would be my first choice too (if English isn’t an option) because I grew up in a family that sometimes spoke it. I’m super rusty though.
Thanks for the answer!
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That’s horseshoe theory bullshit. Republicans just elected a speaker of the house who is proud to be an enemy of the first amendment. They are opposed to any effective use of political capital by the government. Wake the fuck up.
So long as you accept this is a shitty, selfish position. The kids who never voted don’t deserve fascism. Even most fascists deserve better than that abusive, parasitic, ideology. I can’t blame you for being conditioned into learned helplessness, but not helping when you can is not a virtue.