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Status quo bias is difficult to overcome. Republicans are using several techniques to win 2024 and destroy our democracy. Chief among them is making government ineffective by gumming up the works with all their crap.
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What do you think? Are the Republicans resigning from the House being courageous leaders putting the country first or are they being cowardly and allowing MAGA to continue running amok?
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The entire country is stuck in a miasmatic malaise of endless government shutdowns, obviously corrupt judicial decisions, legislativeless Congresses, shrinking Civil Rights, and continual climate disasters all against the thunderous backdrop of gun violence, murder, and mayhem, which had eroded our collective mental health.
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Everybody is losing their minds over Election 2024. Trump won SC by DOUBLE DIGITS! He’s UNSTOPPABLE! If he’s convicted he’ll lose 30% of his voters. The vote in SC was meaningless. Convince me I’m wrong.
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It’s pretty simple, to stop a Nazi, you punch them with votes and the truth. We have to frame the 2024 election as the certain loss of our democracy if not only Trump wins, but Republicans have control of either House of Congress. The electorate must take the risk of returning Biden and the Democrats to office. Always punch a Nazi… with votes.
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When House Republicans show you that they are anti-democratic election denying authoritarians, we ought to believe them and punish them for it at the polls, don’t you think? Make 2024 the last election the authoritarians are viable. Vote them out!
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Recharge your batteries, top up your phone, it’s time to call your members of Congress. We need a clean continuing resolution and we need it now. Then we need the GOP to comply with their budget agreement. Calling works. Here’s how.
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As cultural multilevel selection predicts, declining cooperation and increasing distrust and dissatisfaction precedes social collapse, but it also sets the stage for the inner authoritarian of all the snowflakes to meltdown and grab our democracy by the pussy.
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As much as I enjoy watching an asshole get his comeuppance, the problems that the Republicans are having in electing a Speaker of the House foreshadow much bigger problems to come. Cultural Evolution, Cultural Multilevel Selection, and the importance of cooperation for social success predict as much.
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We are watching the fascification of America in real time. We watch our society become increasingly violent. We watch as Republican politicians stoke violence and scapegoat groups. We know this path leads to authoritarianism.
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That’s the boogeyman that Republican mothers and fathers have been scaring their children with by telling them that it is lurking under their beds and inside their closets and will take them away if they aren’t good and give all their money to the very very rich millionaires and billionaires who feel like they don’t have enough and deserve even more.
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The problem with the Republicans and their authoritarian pusch is that voters, and I mean white voters, won’t punish them for their anti-democratic ways. We see it EVERY election, a majority of white voters vote fascist.
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If America is ever going to make a more perfect union, white people have to confront their inner racist and make peace with whatever the fuck it is that responds to the GQP’s dog whistling Southern Strategy politics.
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Using recent sociological research into gaslighting, we gain insights into how Trump gaslit MAGA Nation, the Republican Party, and the nation.
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Short version: As it turns out, the GOP really is deliberately screwing their base and the rest of us for their own gain. Hunh?
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The first of a two-part series on examining the reasons Americans don’t vote for politicians that support the issues they tell pollsters they support. Abortion is a good case study. Part two looks at the psychological reasons people don’t.
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The lies the GQP tells just keep getting taller and taller. Soon they will tower above the clouds. Surely this amount of lying will have some detrimental effect. Surely shamelessness cannot be healthy.
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How likely is it that the Dems are going to hold on to the majorities in Congress? There are lots of reasons to be optimistic that the 2022 election will defy history and leave the Democratic party in charge of Congress, the most prominent one being that Trump isn’t running but he’ll be trying to help the GQP campaigns.
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Yao! TL;DR! But, it is so worth it. There are six categories of conservative and they are oh, so illuminating in explaining the dysfunction that they are forcing on us in order to wreck our democracy. Lots of food for thought in this one.
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As the Trump insurrection riot and TOO response makes clear, our democracy is under direct attack. The GOP really is actively trying to destroy our democracy. It is now all hands on deck. We all have to fight against the conservative authoritarian power grab. One way to do that is to be an engaged, informed, and organized voter. It means keeping up with what your MoM is doing and contacting them frequently. Luckily Indivisible has just the guide to show us how.
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