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There's been a segment of the GOP that have, over the past decade (?), taken this path of cheating-lying-etc because they feel it's the only way for their party to win a majority. On the other hand, there are perfectly sane and reasonable GOP party members out there. Most of the time we don't hear about them because they aren't causing controversies that news platforms love to cover for clicks-money-etc.
All of this USA political bullshit and shitshow matters fuck all to me. When I learned about the 400 people that control everything on Earth, then all this shit just became 'smoke and mirrors'.
I'm not prepared to call anyone still associating themselves with the GOP "reasonable" at this point. That's like joining a neo-nazi militia and claiming that you're just a member but not a neo-nazi.
Ditto for the people who voted for the Nazi party for "economic reasons" while turning a blind eye to... Fucking everything. They were not innocent. Very far from it. However 'normal' and 'socially acceptable' their day to day behavior may otherwise have seemed to those around them. Evil can be as banal and understated as anything.
Past a certain point, you just can't declare affiliation with an organization, make-nice with its 'more extreme' members and overlook their behavior and actions, etc, and still claim that you're uninvolved and not participating in and enabling what the organization has become as a whole.
Especially not when the GOP - in congress and in state houses - votes in near lockstep when it comes to their vilest culture war talking points. These supposedly "fringe" points that have such a mysterious tendency to become less and less and less fringe within the party as time passes and the line of what is or isn't "acceptable" (or even encouraged) is shoved farther and farther out.
Any actually reasonable members of the GOP bailed and became right-wing dems or independants or libertarians ages ago at this point.
That's my stance on it as well. If they still call themselves a republican, then they're complicit. If they don't admonish and distance themselves from the GOP, then they are complicit.
Well that was depressing. I agree though. I've always thought that after a certain amount, nobody needs more money. Most depressing of all was that this was just Americans. There are plenty more worldwide.