Until and unless we have a way to artificially enhance intelligence - or find some other way to push human nature forward - we will likely always be stuck with some significant minority of the deplorables. The trick is to not give them any power or say whatsoever, though.
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Americans have been electorally mercy killing the GOP for forty years, they invented moving the goalposts in response.
There may still be a less electoral way to mercy kill the GOP.
Americans have been electorally mercy killing the GOP for forty years
Feeling incredibly happy every time a cockroach dies of old age, because I'm pretty sure this means I'm beating them.
There may still be a less electoral way to mercy kill the GOP.
Unfortunately, the folks with the highest proclivity to try and run a rival's campaign bus off the road aren't in the liberal party.
They have been killing them with the popular vote. The GOP wins the electoral votes often actually.
It will be a “shock and awe” campaign visited upon the American people.
This subject does not seem to be receiving the warranted attention it deserves
This is another framing suggesting that the Republican party was a legitimate party until Trump, they have been the party of racists since, at least, Nixon and the implementation of the southern strategy.
Trump isn't the root of the evil of the party, the party has been evil for 60 or so years, trump is the logical conclusion.
Calling it a mercy killing erases all the evil done for so long. The party doesn't need a mercy killing, it needs to be held accountable for the evil it has done for decades.
Republican party doesnt need a mercy kill.
It needs a legitimate, in depth, non-partisian federal criminal investigation and convictions against every one in the party that has betrayed their office and sold America out to foreign powers... Or have fucked kids.
Which, unfortunately for them, seems to be a significant chunk of them.
Start with all the ones that I've been balls deep on Putin.
Fitting. American democracy began with Mad King George III and will end with Mad King Trump I.
mercy-kill
I don't see why they deserve any mercy.
Because not all sheep deserve to be slaughtered. There's a lot of people who vote out of fear because they don't know any better. It's the Republican party that needs to be done away with.
The Republican Party simply represents the voters, they’d get no votes without that.
So no, they don’t deserve mercy. The average conservative voter is the very reason we have this problem to begin with.
Politicians need someone to represent. They found it in America’s racists and nationalists.
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I think it's important to clarify here that "the Republican Party" (see also: "the GOP") refers to the party leaders and political figures. It doesn't (usually) refer to the voters, although you might hear "Republican consituency" or "Republican voters", or even "Republicans". But "the Republican Party" is generally agreed to mean the leaders, or the organization that presents them as leaders. I think you agree with that point because you seem to be making the same clarification in your last sentence. My comment, and the article headline, are referring to this group.
I think I agree with you that the sheep don't need to be slaughtered, although they are going to need some very tough medicine.
The people who led them to this point? No mercy.
exactly.
Whether we like to believe it or not, no one is the villan of their own story. I won't deny that the Republican party courts the worst of the worst types of scumbags around us, but their propaganda machine gets so many people in so many different ways.
They managed to get my otherwise amazing gay cousin to vote for Trump by his displeasure with the Israel/Palestine conflict (this was well before the current genocide) The media he was consuming framed everything in terms of Democrat support so he was lead to believe the Republicans have the "compassionate" resolution. He votes against his own well being because of propaganda... :(
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