• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Trump is a symptom, not a cause. You might say, a secondary illness thst causes other things like organ failure.

    Republicans have been working towards this since Nixon.

    That includes people like McCain and Susan Collins.

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      11 hours ago

      It all boils down to Barry fucking Goldwater. He made a game plan with a swappable villain, started with the southern strategy, where the villain was black people, as things changed the plan stayed the same and just kept switching their villain to appease single issue voters/fucking idiots.

      If you can get people to vote for, or more importantly against, one specific thing without considering anything else then everything else you want to do is added to the free space slot.

      Edit: This should be conspiratorial nonsense, but luckily Kissinger and Nixon were recording everything the other did, including all of both of their political plannings with Goldwater, and these meetings are very well documented and archived. It was a terrible plan, but a solid one, and it worked and is still working. Everyone telling you not to vote is a part of this very plan, regardless of how aware they may or may not be. We have always lived in a clown country.

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        7 hours ago

        shes a republican through and through, she just had to trick the boomers in maine enough to say shes not like these other republicans.

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        17 hours ago

        As an example of someone opposed to Trump? You’re right. Good luck finding a republican today that fits that.

        As a republican often cited as “one of the good ones”, though? She’s perfect.