Qasim Rashid, Esq.Mar 12, 2023
What GOP will regulate:
•Guns❌
•Banks❌
•Railroads❌
•Mortgages❌
•Food & water❌
•Toxic dumping❌
•Carbon emissions❌
•COVID safety rules❌
•Billionaire tax rates❌
•Campaign donations❌
•Dialogue on racism✅
•Women’s bodies✅
•Contraception✅
•History books✅
Show threadLucius Annaeus Seneca
@QasimRashid
Small government for lobbies and special interests, huge government to enforce while male supremacy and fundamentalist theocracy. That's the #gop for you.
Mar 12, 2023 at 9:04pmWeb
Show threadBruce Heerssen Mar 12, 2023
@Annaeus @QasimRashid It's been said that modern conservatism rests on one premise: that there is an in-group which the law protects but does not bind, and an out-group which the law binds but does not protect.
Show threadLucius Annaeus SenecaMar 13, 2023
@bruce @QasimRashid
In other words, back to feudalism. Tech billionaires instead of kings, barons and priests. Minimum wage earners instead of serfs.
Show threadRufus T. FireflyMar 13, 2023
@Annaeus @bruce @QasimRashid Pretty much, yes. The emergence of the middle class was what sparked the Enlightenment and the Long 19th Century. The right wants to bring back the Middle Ages.