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shillyshally t1_j4ial47 wrote

Reply to comment by MansourBahrami in A GOP postmortem: What went so wrong in Pennsylvania? by newzee1

That train left sometime in the Eisenhower admin. It's been nothing but veiled racism and protecting the rich and wannabe rich since then.

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MansourBahrami t1_j4imelr wrote

I hate that you’re right and I just probably didn’t pay much attention for so long. The funny part is Trump outspent every president before him, and it all benefited cronies. Why it took that to get me to wonder if my party was really for fiscal conservatism is honestly kind of shameful.

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SuperUltraHyperMega t1_j4ji33t wrote

Most have selfishly lived in a bubble as they weren’t affected by the financial shiftings. But now the middle class has been carved out and it’s quite obvious what others have been complaining about all along. Unfortunately most people don’t see a problem until it finally bites them.

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invisiblearchives t1_j4li4rd wrote

Impressed by the self-awareness on display here.

I've been saying for years, as a conservative member of the far-left, that conservatives are great people with good priorities, unfortunately being taken advantage of by far-right and reactionary forces.

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MansourBahrami t1_j4lmnw5 wrote

What’s really funny is in terms of my positions on labor, I’m pretty far left, same with gay marriage.

I’ve always been a “I think roe v wade is a nice middle ground” guy and some of the recent stuff where women have rotting fetus in them to comply with new rules about abortion is just like, you know what that’s ridiculous.

I figured gay marriage was settled. Nope, People are trying to take that back

I thought for sure we were done with talking about interracial marriage. Evidently that’s on the table?

What the fuck is been going on? You know, I don’t even want low taxes, just reasonable ones, and reasonable gun laws. Once Trump signed off on red flag laws I was like, man this guy is possibly the worst of all worlds.

Sorry to rant, I’m just, man like someone said I guess I didn’t watch news, I was maybe an Eisenhower Republican, which is weird I’m only 40.

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invisiblearchives t1_j4lsaph wrote

>I was maybe an Eisenhower Republican

I feel you on this, since the party that was closest to my views was the radical reconstructionists. Only 150 years off on that one.

>What the fuck is been going on?

The actual answer is fascism. For the last 100 years, monarchical and corporate forces have been manipulating popular bigotry and class divisions to ensure that the levers of societal power aren't lost to people who would dismantle the existing power structures and actually fix or address issues (which exist because it assists the powerful)

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