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Have You Ever Noticed How Republicans Seem to Screw Everything Up?
And then Americans blame the Democrats when they get to fixing things again
I love listening to Republicans today speak about how they are shocked at what has happened to their Party. They can’t believe how extremist and even looney it has gotten. What I find annoying about these comments is that they are made by people who, until just recently, supported Trump, MAGA, McConnell, Lindsey Graham, the takeover of SCOTUS by the religious right, etc.
Now, they look around at the criminal neglect of elected Republican representatives and act as if they had nothing to do with it. “Yesterday, everything was so normal. How did things get so bad so fast?” To be a Republican in America, the firings and twitchings in the brains that permit people to understand things like opportunity cost and the consequences of one’s actions must be dimmed— they don’t fire and twitch, thus creating a void in comprehension.
These people just don’t understand that if you do A, then B, C, or D could happen. Republicans do “A” and accept that “A” will continue to be the result forever. Take the tax cuts that are endlessly given to the super-rich. Since 1980, when Ronald Reagan declared war on the middle and working classes, economic inequality has exploded in our…
