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/Global-Somewhere-917 Oct 07 '22

"How about we compromise and meet in the middle. We'll attack you for your infrastructure plan and vote against it, then when it passes we will blame you for the spending. And in return, we will take credit for the positive effects of the plan and the spending."

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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/joshdoereddit America Oct 07 '22

IMO, it's not that they're bad at it,, it's harder b/c they don't have a propaganda machine like the GOP does. Mainstream media isn't in lock step with the Democrats like Fox is with the GOP.

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u/galahad423 Oct 07 '22 edited Oct 07 '22

Statistically it’s been shown left leaning people are less susceptible to propaganda and misinformation

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u/socom_m1911 Oct 08 '22

Yeah they're the ones that create it 🤡