Why do you think it’s just a couple “Democrats” changing sides or caving when Republicans need them to?
They are playing good cop/bad cop but they are both cops.
Sure maybe 49% of Democrats might have the best intentions but along as Republicans stand strong with their 51% they control basically everything.
It’s naive to think that the rich controls everything except for the Democratic party. They do a lot of work to make it look like they don’t own the good cop.
“Adequately explained” does a lot of heavy lifting in Hanlon’s Razor, and it’s supposed to. It’s adequate to assume that the few people who always break with the GOP are on the take, and the ones who aren’t doing anything about it are just incompetent. Sure, the oligarchy is buying up whoever they need, but they don’t want to waste money on directly buying a politician if they can just Citizens-United their useful idiots into office.
Assuming malice in even 51%–while possible, sure–I just don’t think is necessary.
Why do you think it’s just a couple “Democrats” changing sides or caving when Republicans need them to?
They are playing good cop/bad cop but they are both cops.
Sure maybe 49% of Democrats might have the best intentions but along as Republicans stand strong with their 51% they control basically everything.
It’s naive to think that the rich controls everything except for the Democratic party. They do a lot of work to make it look like they don’t own the good cop.
“Adequately explained” does a lot of heavy lifting in Hanlon’s Razor, and it’s supposed to. It’s adequate to assume that the few people who always break with the GOP are on the take, and the ones who aren’t doing anything about it are just incompetent. Sure, the oligarchy is buying up whoever they need, but they don’t want to waste money on directly buying a politician if they can just Citizens-United their useful idiots into office.
Assuming malice in even 51%–while possible, sure–I just don’t think is necessary.