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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsElected Republicans are about one thing and only 1 thing.
Redistributing money from the bottom and working people to their pockets. They will use any means necessary to achieve their objective.
Their only loyalty is to $. Not their country or democracy.
Casady1
(2,133 posts)Officials? It is the entire party.
onecaliberal
(32,783 posts)GoodRaisin
(8,908 posts)their vote only counts on election day. After that, the Republican shills work only for the plutocrats who control them and keep them in office.
mahina
(17,622 posts)Check it! I (obvs?) was for HRC. Still.
While we must strongly support Democrats we have to work this wedge. It will protect democracy for all of us, red, blue, purple.
mwooldri
(10,301 posts)onecaliberal
(32,783 posts)These people ARE above the law.
Silent3
(15,148 posts)...but that a desire to maintain and increase power is the most shared characteristic. Individuals Republicans have more differences among them about what they want to accomplish with that power, and how important money is to them.
I think most Republicans are simply in politics for themselves, and don't have higher principles apart from personal gain. They are Republicans because they see the Republican base as the easiest rubes to manipulate to get what they want .
Don't forget, however, that some Republicans are True Believers in their pursuit of power, justifying to themselves that all manner of deceit, all turning a blind eye to Trumpian corruption, is an excusable means to the end of preventing (gasp!) Democratic control of government. Some elected Republicans are just as crazy and/or bigoted as their followers. Some are Dominionists who want to turn the US into a Christian theocracy. Some are just as afraid of TEH SOCHCULISM!!11!! and of being "replaced" as the typical Tucker Carlson fan.
onecaliberal
(32,783 posts)Silent3
(15,148 posts)My only point is that their refusal to concede elections will be due to a mix of ugly motivations.
onecaliberal
(32,783 posts)kimbutgar
(21,056 posts)Its the liberals who want to take everything from them and give them to minorities I tell you!
The working class who vote repuke are the chickens who root for colonel sanders.
onecaliberal
(32,783 posts)abqtommy
(14,118 posts)in jail/prison. It's been this way since Nixon.
onecaliberal
(32,783 posts)Hear, hear!