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MineralMan

(146,311 posts)
Tue Jan 3, 2017, 04:10 PM Jan 2017

If Republicans Were Smart, They'd Do Something That Would

ensure they win for many years to come. Something like Medicare for All, a very popular concept. But, they're not smart, so they won't do that. Instead, they'll stiff ordinary people with some sort of scam healthcare thing and lose lots of voters.

They're motivated by the wrong things, so they do the wrong things.

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If Republicans Were Smart, They'd Do Something That Would (Original Post) MineralMan Jan 2017 OP
the repubs have lost the desire to govern Angry Dragon Jan 2017 #1
Silly mineralman! You think they lie, cheat, and steal in order to pass good laws? unblock Jan 2017 #2
See. That's how stupid they are. MineralMan Jan 2017 #3
Oh I expect them to. briv1016 Jan 2017 #4
I really do not think politics is a rational exercise. It is more of a tribal identity or something. RadiationTherapy Jan 2017 #5
Well, Republican politics is that way for sure. MineralMan Jan 2017 #6
I am not sure democrats are an exception. RadiationTherapy Jan 2017 #10
And if my Aunt had balls, she'd be my Uncle. 11 Bravo Jan 2017 #7
they are doing things that will ensure that they will win for many years to come bowens43 Jan 2017 #8
Nixon would have done something like this... First Speaker Jan 2017 #9
"If Republicans Were Smart" Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2017 #11

unblock

(52,235 posts)
2. Silly mineralman! You think they lie, cheat, and steal in order to pass good laws?
Tue Jan 3, 2017, 04:29 PM
Jan 2017

Hah! They do it precisely so they can make loot the treasury and pass laws they could never sell honestly!

briv1016

(1,570 posts)
4. Oh I expect them to.
Tue Jan 3, 2017, 04:34 PM
Jan 2017

50 state voter ID, end all early voting, "modernize" (paperless) voting and finally implementing "Authorized Poll Watchers."

Not what you had in mind?

RadiationTherapy

(5,818 posts)
5. I really do not think politics is a rational exercise. It is more of a tribal identity or something.
Tue Jan 3, 2017, 04:35 PM
Jan 2017

The important thing is to poke, jab, or hurt one's ideological rivals - not to improve quality of life.

RadiationTherapy

(5,818 posts)
10. I am not sure democrats are an exception.
Tue Jan 3, 2017, 04:47 PM
Jan 2017

However, even if they were, I believe it was Hume (or Hegel - I only watch youtube vids about philosophy...hahaha) who said that beliefs come first and then we look for ways to rationalize second. Furthermore, one is unlikely to be able to change their own or others beliefs through rationalizing.

But we gotta do something....

11 Bravo

(23,926 posts)
7. And if my Aunt had balls, she'd be my Uncle.
Tue Jan 3, 2017, 04:38 PM
Jan 2017

Repugs are voracious predators. They will be unable to restrain themselves in their zeal to enrich themselves and their backers, while fucking over the American people.

 

bowens43

(16,064 posts)
8. they are doing things that will ensure that they will win for many years to come
Tue Jan 3, 2017, 04:39 PM
Jan 2017

gerrymandering
voter suppression
vilification of the press
stacking the courts with right wing extremists

etc

First Speaker

(4,858 posts)
9. Nixon would have done something like this...
Tue Jan 3, 2017, 04:46 PM
Jan 2017

...he was totally evil, but a shrewd sonuvabitch. Today's GOP is simply too stupid and ideologically blinkered to consider it...

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,986 posts)
11. "If Republicans Were Smart"
Tue Jan 3, 2017, 04:50 PM
Jan 2017

There in lies the problem. I look at todays GOP as a bunch of overgrown frat boys.

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