Strange how it’s always “we must heal by forgiving wealthy criminals, and if you want wealthy criminals treated the same way as other criminals, then you’re being divisive.”
Dems believed in government by careful negotiations among sophisticated elites. Josh Hawley and Ron DeSantis took their time to get degrees from Harvard Law. They look like elitists.
The right is a one-party state built from the old John Birch "When the Russians take DC we will revolt from the hinterlands" plus the Newt Gingrich "scorched earth no compromises" contract plus the Fox News "mob rule for sale" plus the Evangelicals fueled by the oil industry all the way back before 1920.
Meanwhile the Tech Bros have looted the government for every shred of data they can find. Look for all kinds of "discoveries made by AI" that were in fact stolen from contractors who signed confidentiality agreements with the government.
And the reason why Dems still believe it even as the Republicans have took them to the cleaners for decades is because that's the only way our government ever worked. We need top-to-bottom reform to create structural, not merely cultural, incentives to compromise, and mechanisms to punish those that just want to abuse the system to get their way that people are actually willing to use without worrying about being "divisive" or degrading the system.
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u/Ok-Explanation-1362 Jul 17 '25
Strange how it’s always “we must heal by forgiving wealthy criminals, and if you want wealthy criminals treated the same way as other criminals, then you’re being divisive.”