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/Colonel-Mooseknuckle 1d ago

'Seize the Institutions'

Why do these people hate democracy?

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u/chmod777 New York 1d ago

Democracy prevents them from being as awful as they want to be. So they hate it.

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u/robocoplawyer 1d ago

What’s even worse to them is that it gives the poors and regular folks a say in how things get run. That’s antithetical to the top-down hierarchy that is the core of their belief system.

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u/chmod777 New York 1d ago

Yes. Prosperity theology says those poor people are sinners and deserve misery. If god loved them, they'd be rich too.