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Torgo posted...

I think it's because republicans have been lead around by the nose by the worst people in media, religion, and politics... and they are now completely divorced from any ethical obligations to truth, intellectual consistency, patriotism, or basic humanity.

You can try and defend the "official" platform and say you just want lower taxes and "state's rights" - which has also been shown to be a fair weather belief - but the rest of that party is embracing religious extremism, white nationalism, bigotry, misogyny, chaotic foreign policy, embrace of dictators, anti-science, and so many more bad positions.

This is right, but it is even worse than that. The GOP isnt just embracing bigotry, misogyny etc. when the Party realized no one in the mainstream was going to vote for their dumb platform, they sought out extremists and embraced them as sort of an untapped pool of voters. The anger stoked by the GOP wasnt just a random thing-they actively started tailoring their message to draw in voters who hold vile beliefs.

It is a fine distraction I am making here, but I think an important one. The GOP didnt just evolve into a party of deplorables. They saw bringing extremists in as a way to cling to power when the majority of society rejected their dumb policies-and spent decades actively reaching out to the kind of gullible, hateful moron who would participate in an attempt to overturn a fair election.

The GOP actively chose this instead of, you know, coming up with some policies a rational person might actually support.