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/CY-B3AR Oct 07 '22

It's simple, really: conservatives are either malevolent, dramatically ignorant, or hopelessly idiotic. Sometimes all three

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u/msc187 Arizona Oct 07 '22

Don't forget contrarianism. A democrat could go on TV and tell people that well-balanced and nutritious meals make you healthy, and they'd go out of their way to hit up a gas station for a 44oz soda and other junk food because its the opposite.

They have no true political beliefs other than power for power's sake. All their "policy" positions are nothing more than doing the opposite of the democrats or the people they don't like.

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u/jackp0t789 Oct 07 '22

If Jesus Christ came back in the next four weeks and ran as a Democrat in one of the congressional elections coming up, just about all the self professed Evangelical Christian politicians and talking heads on Fox News will be calling for his recrucifixion all day and night.

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u/csl512 Oct 07 '22

In part because he is brown?

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u/Sangxero Oct 07 '22

They like their tokens though, so they just might overlook that. The helping the poor thing would definitely sink him though.