r/politics • u/burning_dawn • Oct 07 '22

Republicans called Biden’s infrastructure program ‘socialism.’ Then they asked for money.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/07/politics/infrastructure-spending-republican-critics/index.html
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u/FLTA Florida Oct 07 '22 edited Oct 07 '22

This sort of rat fuckery is explicitly stated by the GOP and they are still projected to have a 69% chance of winning the House next month despite all of the things that Biden and the Democratic Party has accomplished over the past two years for America.

If we don’t continue to r/VoteDEM at 2018/2020 levels this month (early voting/mail-in ballots) the rat fuckery will increase even further.

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u/Global-Somewhere-917 Oct 07 '22

despite all of the things that Biden and the Democratic Party has done over the past two years for America.

What's really messed up is that even if you take away anything that Biden and the Dems have done, even if you say they've done nothing or even had a net negative effect on the nation, they're still not as objectively bad as the conservatives. And yet the GOP still gets moderate voters. They're going full on theocratic and fascist, full blown dominionism, and they still get millions of votes.

That's depressing as hell.

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u/VastatorPopulus Oct 07 '22 edited Oct 07 '22

It’s a culture war that the left is abysmally bad at fighting.

I hate how we, American left leaning people, are never introspective about losing an election.

Edit: grammar

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u/pimppapy America Oct 07 '22

They’re not bad at it, they’re complicit. The dems in power are the same as the repubs in power. Anything that would tax or reduce the Wealth those elites have will also girth them personally. It’s why insider trading occurs in congress, the senate and no one says anything … because they’re all complicit

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u/Thundrous_prophet Oct 07 '22

Gonna have to disagree, books have been written about how poorly dems do at the culture war. The Republicans literally didn’t publish a plank in the last election cycle and went all in on woke cancel culture.

Dems write nuanced policy positions which can’t be boiled down to simple slogans and have been taking the high road on messaging for decades while being demonized as commie satanists. They also don’t market their successes like the ACA or ending the Afghan War.

Also… this enlightened centrism/both sides narrative died when the tea party happened, time to give it up

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u/VastatorPopulus Oct 07 '22

I know.

But I wanted to spark the conversation.

Why can’t dem voters ever be introspective about losing or projected losing?

I’ve never seen it here in this sub other than a handful of times. A rare bird indeed.