Why do Republicans keep sending these unserious, comical morons to Congress?

[kentuck]

They serve no purpose except to spread rumors and conspiracy theories and to create havoc within the House of Representatives.

Please stop voting for those people.

You know who they are.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. Because they think the system of governmenet we have is unserious and comical.

[NCjack]

2. Why do they? They send their best.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. I think it's to simply disrupt the process of legislation and democracy.

A bunch of rodeo clowns to distract and to disrupt.

[malaise]

4. Because likes on Social Media are more important

than knowledge or competence

[BlueJac]

5. Politics are a game to them!

But they keep playing their losers!

[madaboutharry]

6. I also wonder why this is.

Look at the intellect of Democrats in elected office. Many are brilliant, at the very least these representatives and senators are very smart.

Compare them to elected republicans. They are idiots. Gaetz, Greene, Boebart, Gohmert, Ernst, Noem....the list is endless. Yes, there are exceptions. Liz Cheney is well educated and very bright. So is Adam Kinzinger. Mitt Romney is pretty smart. Lisa Murkowski is smart. But this is a handful of people in a sea of morons.

[NewHendoLib]

7. Qpublicans hate to govern. Only grift.

[Shellback Squid]

8. Kyrsten Sinema

[CrispyQ]

16. Your response implies both sides do it, yet you listed only one name.

Their side has dozens of crazies.

[Shellback Squid]

24. true

[LonePirate]

9. Republican voters are motivated by spectacle, not by ability to govern or legislate.

They are the others distracted by the shiny object and the Republican politicians running for office know this.

[USAFRetired_Liberal]

10. Because

Their voters are unserious, comical morons.

[brooklynite]

11. Define "Republican"

The "normal" Republicans have largely quit the Republican Party in the deep Red districts these people come from.

[JHB]

12. Talk radio and FOX

30-40 years of people pushing their hot buttons from media has left them hungry for grandstanders who will do the same from government.

[COL Mustard]

13. They Show That Republicans Aren't Serious About Governing

And appear incapable of appropriate behavior in most social and professional settings.

[The Magistrate]

14. Because They Vote For People Like Themselves, Sir

And the people they elect do exactly what they would do themselves were they in office.


"Every normal man must at times be tempted to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin cutting throats."

[essaynnc]

15. I disagree with all of you...

DISTRACTION. Pure and simple.

contrary to what most believe, Republicans are not stupid. they have literally spent the past 50 years working on the long game of authoritarian one party rule in this country. sure we barely dodged the bullet in 2020, but that just shows how close they really are. whats changed since then?? not much, just a lot more statehouse under their control, and more money and years of gaslighting the entire country.

while we're spending all day running after Goetz and company, distracted by "squirrel ", what other crap is being planned? while we're fighting voter suppression and standing for abortion rights and lgbtq rights and minimum wage and human dignity and climate change and all the other REAL ISSUES, I fear they're upgrading their plans for their one party rule, because they came sooo close to pulling off a coup here last year. and all they're doing is planning and scheming and getting ready for the next time around. They don't care about issues or morality or rule of law or fairness or people or lives, they care about only one thing...EXPANDING THEIR POWER.

and if history has shown us anything, its that they're in it for the long haul, incremental improvements that lead to their goals... Call me an alarmist, no, don't. call me a realist.

[Tadpole Raisin]

17. Nothing will change until they can stop disinformation

Don’t think Democrats will be able to do this until they get more members in Congress but one or more of these things need to be done

1. Break up large companies that spread disinformation
2. Require companies like Facebook to follow the same requirements as news organizations.
3. Require news organizations opinion divisions to vet what they are saying and comply with news division requirements
4. Change requirements to make suing these opinion people easier for egregious lies
5. Change the laws that allow media companies to own so many news outlets (yah not going to happen). What is it now - 6 corporations own 90% of news outlets?

What do you think is doable? Is there anything that can be done outside of Congress (executive orders) that is not a pipe dream?

Sorry, I just get so frustrated!!!

[mrsv]

18. Republican voters

Vote for who best represents them. This is who they are as people. Deplorables.

[Polly Hennessey]

19. Because republicans are unserious comical morons?

That would be my guess.

[Hekate]

20. Contempt, that's why

[GoCubsGo]

21. Well, they're supposed to be representaiive of their constituents.

Which tells me the majority of voters in their districts are also unserious, comical morons.

[ananda]

22. You mean all of the Reeps except for two or three?

QED

[Wounded Bear]

23. Preaching to the choir. Most folks here know that...

If only we could reach repubs in red states.

[Salviati]

25. Because when you decide to make your party for morons...

You inevitably turn your party into one of morons

[apnu]

26. They purged everyone else in the early 2000s

The W era and the 9/11 fever resulted in a purge of anyone reasonable or principled. Then the Tea Party came along, Libertatian Astro turf that it was, and purged nearly all who remained. The political take over of the party was completed with Trump.

[Chainfire]

27. The voters keep sending them to Congress because,

"They are just like us and they tell it like it is."

People get the government that they deserve.

[Johonny]

28. There is no other alternative candidates for them to run

There is simply no thoughtful, intelligent, serious Republicans left. They all left the station twenty years ago. That party used to use race baiting, and name calling to herd in the rubes for votes. Now the rubes they used to joke about in private run the party. The people that thought they could "control" the rubes have lost control to them or worse lost their minds.

It's no longer a political party, it's a attention whore feast. They care more about likes and follows than any agenda.

[dixiechiken1]

29. Gotta go with your strengths...

[moondust]

30. Sabotage?

"Big gubment" haters? Neoconfederate/Neonazi racists and lawless profiteers? Bigots 'N Pigs?

[Iggo]

31. Because they're estupid.