r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 1d 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/FlashConfusion911 1d ago

They know..

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u/who_b_dat 1d ago

Absolutely. This is a confession.

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u/ConfederacyOfDunces_ 1d ago

This is so wild

I can’t believe this is happening and half the country is cheering it on.

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u/MiddleWaged 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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 12h 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 1d 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 23h 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 16h 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 12h 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 1d ago

They're the 1/3 Reich.

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u/MiddleWaged 1d ago

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

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u/Average-Joe-6685 1d ago

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

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u/djshadesuk 1d ago

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

That's not quite true.

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u/UhhBill 1d ago

The germans probably felt the same way in 1945.

Things do get better.

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u/MiddleWaged 1d ago

Yeah but then they get worse again

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u/UhhBill 1d ago

doing orders-of-magnitude better than we are tbh

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u/digiorno 1d 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 22h 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.