The GOP Is the Party of ‘f**k You’

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Unless you're cishet, white, Christian, then yeah. They're like f**k everyone else basically.

I didn't suggest one can't resist language changing, but fundamentally it's impossible to do much more than note your disagreement while accepting what the word means in common usage. There comes a point where digging in on the disagreement over nomenclature becomes counterproductive; eventually the conversation will just cease to include people who refuse to accept the jargon because they don't contribute anything of value, just needless distraction.

As for 'policing', pointing out reality doesn't force others to accept it. One can deny the notion of white privilege all they like, it just reduces their credibility. Denying reality makes one's opinions seem detached from reality and not worth considering.

People are entitled to dismiss opinions they don't feel are grounded in reality. This might be hurtful to one being dismissed's feelings but since when was that the same as policing another's opinions?

It won't be the first time I have been an outlier about something which is probably true of most people here, so I do understand the many disadvantages of going one way when the rest of the world is going another way. But sometimes one has got to do to be true. I may be wrong but don't think "privilege" has gotten to nearly the lost cause status of "colored people" or 'Negro".

Policing goes on all the time be it in the office wherein a lot of it goes way beyond don't curse or speak badly of the company. Then there is social media where "I am just trying to explain something to you" is often disingenuous


And no matter how Packman defines "woke" I still don't think the country is as much on the same page as him as he thinks they are.

Republican candidates have long competed against one another and the Democrats over who is the most hardhearted. This is a party that sees a lack of empath as a virtue, and celebrate how many people they judge as leaches and eaters they can punish by leaving them with nothing.

The GOP was ruined for me once the Tea Party took it over.

Today, even W would be considered a "woke socialist".

I think even their patron saint, Ronald Reagan, wouldn't be electable today.

the right wing is itching for another civil war.

Yet people will keep voting for them.

Aside from the swing states, how can we get the super-red states (Mississippi, Idaho, Nebraska. etc) to turn blue?

Florida voters are well off retirees from other states. This allows them to form an effective voting block.
Voters that are easy to appeal to with hard right policies that ignore liberals and moderates.

Many of the workers are immigrants that can't vote, except with their feet, by working in other states.
This skews voting in a number of states on the southern border of the United States.
You have a low working class with no voting rights in elections.

In fairness, even traditional Republicans would call Romney a RINO, as per the original definition. It's not just Trump with him; even pre-Trump, during his days as governor of Mass., traditional Republicans saw Romney as a Republican-in-name-only. Poor example.

They played themselves into a corner. They GOP and it's base and conservative news have constructed an echo chamber where having the government do anything is evil, regulating corporations are evil, and liberal social changes are evil. But what are they going to suggest the government do? The government actively trying to solve the GOP base's problems would be, to them, socialism and therefore evil. But they're slowly realizing that corporations are not going to fix their problems, regardless of how hard they try to elect people to slash corporate taxes. So the GOP have nothing left to believe in except Got-Mine libertarianism and nationalism.
What solution do these people expect from the GOP--even if it decided to stop being the dismissive, anti-solution party of F*** You? Businesses don't pretend to care about them. The political class is too moderate for them. The media despise them, except conservative media which makes money making them more and more outraged with everything.
If anybody sees a way for the GOP to get out of this self-imposed, ideologically incoherent tailspin, then please tell me.

Covertly colonize them with droves of voters from blue states.

Hope their kids grow up with fewer toxic ideas.

they are out-reproducing everybody else, and successfully brainwashing their kids with hate and class snobbery.

People in blue states are boycotting the red states, and their power is hindered by voter suppression.

Supposedly, many people that are relocating to Texas are moving from California, but there's a huge divide between cities like L.A. and San Francisco, and cities like Bakersfield (Kevin McCarthy's home base) and Fresno. I don't know of any info that states what parts of Cali they're coming from.

They'll be back at it soon, wanting to make it mandatory. It's a holy war to them.