Hello Micawber,
Originally Posted by
Micawber
To an extent yes, but the Republican party is a fascist rogue anti-democratic White nationalist party.
Parties that oppose democracy should not be allowed to participate in it. Parties that oppose government should not be allowed to
participate in it. In both cases the only reason they participate is to destroy it.
So Dems don't maximize the interests of their constituents and do engage in fraud waste and abuse, but Republicans are
antithetical to almost all of the most bedrock tenets of American life: honesty, decency, law abiding, democratic, pluralistic, and equality of opportunity.
Republicans are a menace to the United States, a cancer from within. And worst still, most members don't believe this despite that it is patently obvious,
so they can't fix themselves. It's simply a horrible situation we are in. It all goes back to Trumpism. Their cowardly sniveling leadership
can't tell the truth because of Trump's stranglehold on the base, so they partake in the disgusting fascist and vote suppression agenda,
patent racist policy and rhetoric and the Trump crime spree and treason protection racket.
That's a good assessment but it leaves out the Putin factor.
Vladimir Putin is ex KGB and a very dirty player. He is totally corrupt and is bleeding Russia of wealth and productivity.
Things are so bad in Russia, that Putin cannot allow the USA to do well and become functionally effective in progress.
Putin would have a tougher time clinging to power if people in Russia could look at the USA and see how it's done with fair democracy.
For this reason Putin needs to disrupt American democracy, throw a wrench into our monkey-works.
If America is bitterly polarized and rife with hatred, this works to Putin's advantage. So he brings that about.
If people in Russia think they have it bad, all Putin has to do is point to the USA and say: "You think they have it any better?"
Why should Putin attack Americans when he can get Americans to attack themselves?
Years ago we were told that future wars would be cyber wars.
We all wondered what form that would take.
Now we have our answer.
They use social media to get us to fight ourselves.
And it is working.
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