The right’s view of rights, laws, and rules, is that there exists some in-group (them) that should be protected by power and an out-group (you) that should be bound by power.

That’s it. That’s the motivating idea. Rules, laws, principles do not exist to be consistent, logical, or defensible. They exist to give them what they want at your expense. There is no compromise you can reach, no shame you can provoke them to feel, only your submission to their domination.

Do not take the words these people say seriously except when they are explaining how they intend to hurt you. That’s the only time they’re telling a consistent truth.

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Well knowm paradigm : apply extreme violence, terror in order to get obedience.

Much more serious than hypochrisy.

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Please include anyone you know or see who comments in support of the GOP... Family. Friends. Community people, especially church people. I'm just DONE with all of them.

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I hope this is used to shout them down every time they open their mouths for at least a decade

@HeavenlyPossum 40% are supposed to like the current situation, so this will happen again and they will learn how to take elections.

So what should happen if Democrats win the next election (if there will be one)?

@HeavenlyPossum @dennyhenke Well put.

I read this and had some questions for myself about why it is that this kind of thing from people in power, like politicians and talking heads on news (or “news”) shows, still bothers me anyway. And I think(?) it’s that they know what they’re saying is bullshit.
And we know it’s bullshit.
And they know that we know.
And yet instead of fessing up or showing any sign of feeling the least built guilty or caught in the lie, *they keep doing it anyway*.

Shame and humiliation has normally had an effect on people, if only broadly speaking. But sometimes that even gets all the way up to people in power, like politicians. And sometimes it even has an effect.
It wasn’t crazy for politicians of old to either step down from their positions or be removed from them when even a whiff of scandal involving them made them realize what was the right thing to do.

But more and more that doesn’t happen. They’ll keep lying about it. And now it’s to the point where people are not just not embarrassed about getting caught having done something wrong or lied about it… they just double down on it and forge ahead.

Hell, sometimes they not only don’t get admonished or punished for it but actually rewarded for just sticking to the lie (see certain recently confirmed Supreme Court judges for example).

… and then it spreads. It not only becomes their lie and dodging of any shame about it, but it becomes the lie of their administration. It becomes the lie of an entire party. It becomes the lie that *tens of millions of people* either gullibly believe, or know it’s a lie but boldly repeat anyway to toe the party line. And if they’re lucky, they get tens of millions of dollars a year for going on their “news” network and say it with a straight face.

I think a big part of the problem for me is seeing people in power lie or flip-flop almost as a matter of course, with zero acknowledgment of what they’ve done (but they damn well know it) and no longer even avoid feeling bad about it but revel in the fact that they’re getting away with saying it and may even be rewarded for it.

(As a total side note, this seems to have trickled down to everyday society as well… when’s the last time people around you — your family and friends and coworkers — admitted they screwed up? More and more I’m hearing that this person caused the issue, or that person did something wrong that led to my doing something wrong. Admitting wrongdoing and feeling shame about it, which gives a chance to make up for it socially, seem to be things of a bygone era, and it should damn well be brought back.)

That’s my two — okay, two and a half — cents.