To be fair, it was a much more effective electoral strategy than the follow-up:
we’re not going to do shit if you vote for us!
actually, doing nothing would be way better than what we were planning, not to mention way harder to buck our lobbyists that want us to do the terrible things, so we’re going to fuck things up pretty bad if you vote for us. but the other guy might fuck things up slightly more, and it’s your fault either way! but we won’t do anything to stop it, because that’s too hard/we don’t care, good luck fuck you!"
To be fair, it was a much more effective electoral strategy than the follow-up:
we’re not going to do shit if you vote for us!
actually, doing nothing would be way better than what we were planning, not to mention way harder to buck our lobbyists that want us to do the terrible things, so we’re going to fuck things up pretty bad if you vote for us. but the other guy might fuck things up slightly more, and it’s your fault either way! but we won’t do anything to stop it, because that’s too hard/we don’t care,
good luckfuck you!"Plus
we’re gonna give even more money to the military instead of helping people