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Yeah, they have an answer to the families struggling, one answer for all of it:
"Fuck you for being poor. Should have been rich, they're doing great. In fact, better than ever. But you choose to be poor? Fuck you."
Denying half the population healthcare doesn't seem like a solid platform, worst of luck with that >

They ran on a platform of denying most of the country healthcare before and their efforts would have worked if it wasn't for John McCain. So, don't think it will hurt them as bad as you might think. Once the spin factory gets a hold of it, they will make it seem like women being forced by the government to give birth to their rapist's baby is the only fair and honest thing to do. >

I disagree. Women and young voters punished Republicans pretty badly in this last election. Nothing I’ve seen has shown me that this issue will be going away anytime soon. It’s  one thing to TALK about denying people healthcare, but another thing to do it and shrug as people die. No amount of spin is going to convince the Pro-Choice movement that carrying a rapists baby to term is somehow moral. >

I get what you're saying, but the very first issue the republicans in the house tried discussing was cutting social security.
In some cases, people get well over $1 million dollars in total compensation from medicare/medicaid/social security.
Why any person would vote for that party is totally beyond my comprehension.
From a purely financial perspective, it's completely moronic. It's like voting to set yourself on fire financially.
You would be financially better off taking your money to a casino then being subjected to Republican policy making.
I don't even know how to go about doing something like convincing somebody to vote against their own best interests like that.
You have to give it to the republicans there... They're really, and I mean seriously good at manipulating people into doing things that are an absolutely terrible idea.
There definitely has to be a very major disconnect between their voters and reality. >

I used to think there was a disconnect. I don't think there is one.  Their base is okay with setting themselves on fire if it means certain people (anyone who is not them) will get hurt or suffer. >

For some of them, you're correct, but others have told thing me things like "my grand dad voted for republicans, my parents voted for republicans, so I vote for republicans," and I am talking to a person that does not understand the basics of US politics. I mean things like, how the electoral college elects a president, or how bills become laws, as examples. >

That’s that sweet Alpha Serf mentality the GOP wants! >

"So the problem with 2022 is that we didn't lose hard enough" >

That's exactly what I was thinking. McConnell urged GOP members to NOT talk about abortion and focus on other issues back in 2022. Unless they're taking a 180 on the issue, they really haven't learned from the past. At least they are consistent with their rhetoric. >

Lol Republicans don’t learn >

They have learnt.
They have learnt that they can gerrymander and restrict voting with impunity. They have learnt they can lie and use half-truths to stampede people. They have learnt that anti "woke" works, and demonising the "radical left" is a popular policy.
2024 will be a sh*t storm, and I see the GOP winning both the house and senate if something is not done about the broken electoral system in the USA.
Trump will get the nomination if he is not in prison, and if he is free still, he will use this to play the victim again. Why you might ask, well the GOP desperately wants to win again and at the moment no one is stepping up. I think DeSantis will step back, he's clever enough to realise the pain of going against Trump's base at the moment. >

I agree that the election systems are broken at the state level in some red states where gerrymandering is horrific, but in 2020 the presidential election and blue state congressional elections were pretty uneventful, and the Dems performed great. 
America is tired of Trump, and if Republicans run him again in 2024, his loss will be even greater and even more humiliating.  Unfortunately, the GOP has no choice but to let him continue to hold the party by the balls, because if they attempt to kick him out, he takes his loyal MAGA voters with him and the Republicans can't afford to lose any votes. 
Demographics are looking extremely bleak for the GOP. Their base of elderly conservative whites is dying off as a younger generation of diverse progressives is rising in their place. 2020 was very likely their last chance at the white house for a generation, and they flubbed it. 
The smart people within in the GOP realize this, and are planning accordingly. They know that their chances of controlling the federal government are further shrinking with each election cycle, and so they've instead banked on a new strategy: defang the federal government so that red states can return to a pre-civil rights order in which they ruled like oppressive mini confederacies without federal intervention. 
We're going to see the GOP hunker down in their fiefdoms as a regional party, lobbing political and legal attacks on the feds and promoting sectarian violence on blue urban centers, daring the feds to take action. 
A lot of rational people are rightly confused when they see the GOP continuing to attack civil rights, free speech, and reproductive rights when those issues cost them nationally in 2020 and 2022. But that's because those people don't understand the plan. >

They're intentionally targeting a fast growing demographic that is showing up to vote them out - young women. I will not be surprised if they go after birth control next. Precedents can clearly be overturned with this SCOTUS. My darkest take on this - young men will get even less consensual sex from young women because of these GOP policies. Then, the GOP will use this rejection and isolation and frustration in young men to drive more authoritarian values that require women to be suppressed for men to have better lives. They're banking on angry men saving them. >

Totally agree. Sexually frustrated young men are a terrifying demographic. And rather than teach them how to improve themselves and have healthy, respectful relationships with women, conservatives double down on these young men's frustrations and resentments. It's incredibly dangerous. >

Example ~ all the white boy’s shooters >

It’s almost funny how they don’t learn or understand. Then I look out from my perch and see how that ignorance and cruelty reigns. >

On one level they don't care about, or even want, the responsibility of governing. As long as they can grift, wage culture wars, own the libs, and pass the occasional tax cut, they're totally satisfied. >

And given that stroking their ego is a job in itself what do they actually accomplish? The world could burn and they’d still be unsatisfied >

Look we Republicans have to focus on social issues like abortions, wokeness,  transgenders, etc to evoke grievance, fear and hatred of the Libs. We have no answers to pressing problems like unemployment, National health insurance, lowering prescription drug costs, improving education, tax fairness, immigration etc. /s >


We have no answers to pressing problems like unemployment, National health insurance, lowering prescription drug costs, improving education, tax fairness, immigration. 

Yes, they do, no taxes on corps, high taxes for the rest, no healthcare for the masses, abject poverty for the majority, minorities where they should be.... That's the GQP way, fucking regressives.