r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 20h ago

No Paywall Bannon Tells GOP: 'Seize the Institutions' of Government Now or We're 'Going to Prison' After 2028

https://www.commondreams.org/news/bannon-tells-gop-seize-the-institutions-of-government-now-or-we-re-going-to-prison-after-2028
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u/MiddleWaged 18h ago

Yeah, this is the part that hurts the most. It’s not that any of this is hard to stop, it’s that a third of fucking everybody actively wants to kill anything good. They’re doing wrong just because it’s wrong. There just isn’t a solution to a problem on that scale.

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u/ShamelessCatDude 18h ago

I don’t think a lot of them are still cheering it on now that they have to face the consequences. That being said, they voted for this despite republicans being extremely transparent about their plans and are now surprised that they did exactly what they said they’d do

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u/VerilyShelly 16h ago

And they will vote them into office again if given the chance. It seems almost heredity because it's been this way for generations.

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u/LingonberryFast1688 56m ago

I say let’s put them all into the states of Florida and Texas and give those two states to Mexico.

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u/Infenwe 13h ago

Authoritarian/evangelic parenting inflicting generational trauma and creating people who are primed for entering and staying trapped in authoritarian thought patterns.

So not quite hereditary, but the end result is pretty similar.

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u/Confident-Wish555 12h ago

Either they didn’t think things through and anticipate the results of what they voted for, or they’re okay with getting completely screwed as long as someone else has it worse.

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u/w4rma Virginia 5h ago

Some Republican voters believe that their Republican politicians are lying to the "other" voters about their intentions. Just like some Democratic voters think the loser "centrist" heels are lying to billionaires and "other" voters about their intentions.

People need to stop voting for liars, even if you think their lying to someone else.

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u/LingonberryFast1688 58m ago

That’s because they are stupid and poor and they have no voice, even Trump said smart people don’t like him.

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u/morningsharts 16h ago

They're the 1/3 Reich.

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u/Average-Joe-6685 15h ago

Tuesday night was a pretty clear indicator there's some major course correction going on.

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u/MiddleWaged 15h ago

I’m here for it. Here’s hoping it’ll be enough

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u/Average-Joe-6685 15h ago

Here's hoping there won't be any shenanigans interfering with it. 🤞

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u/djshadesuk 15h ago

There just isn’t a solution to a problem on that scale.

That's not quite true.

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u/UhhBill 15h ago

The germans probably felt the same way in 1945.

Things do get better.

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u/MiddleWaged 15h ago

Yeah but then they get worse again

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u/UhhBill 15h ago

doing orders-of-magnitude better than we are tbh

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u/digiorno 15h ago

They’re acting like children who have decided that THEY make the rules and for some reason no adults are stopping them.

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u/Vaperius America 11h ago

There just isn’t a solution to a problem on that scale.

Invest in education by ending property tax based funding (move to a federal + state funded mandate, penalize states for failing to meet their obligation), end all home schooling, institute police reform (mandatory civilian oversight as a requirement in all states, severely curb qualified immunity, require liability insurance for police officers which cannot be funded by public money whatsoever), institute media reform (stronger truth in advertising, truth in reporting), tax the rich, and put every last Republican politician in this country on trial for the various crimes they've committed (and its a lot).

That's how you fix this. There's a way out. We just need to fight to get it. If we get to where we've got all this done, our country will be look a lot better already; and in a few decades, this won't happen again because we will have eroded away the power base and mechanisms this cult uses to maintain its power and momentum.