Comment on Groceries are expensive and they're too busy talking about culture war
SwissArmyKazoo@lemmy.world 4 days ago
GOP rather discuss ethnic ostracizing and its non-existent values than bring up the affordability crisis and inhumane immigration enforcement tactics being plagued on to their own nation and responsibilities.
MAGA is zealously a dictatorship movement
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
I’ve seen ads from / in favor of a number of GOP candidates from around the country lately. More and more of them are running with affordability crisis talking points. Hypocrisy, sure, but what’s new?
For an uninformed voting populace, being the cause of and the solution to major problems is a viable plan.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Politics are so broken you can just say whatever and it doesn’t matter anymore in the US.
You are completely right about being the problem and a pretend solution. The conservatives love to do this with the deficit. Run it up and ignore it completely and then start screaming about it when the other party takes over.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I mean, it does matter, because it does impact domestic policy.
You’ve got a large portion of the population that’s been innoculated against state regulation of business as a fundamental idea. And that same core group has been agitated to believe they need a massive (heavily privatized) police presence to protect them from poor, gay, brown, non-Christians
Doomsider@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It does matter if it gets to the policy level. Most of the time, it is just lip service to get elected though.
You certainly have a large part of the population that is clueless to important concepts such as regulatory capture. The government is no longer functioning as anything else than a mouthpiece for corporations.
Liberty is for the wealthy and their corporations by extension. Anything else is just propaganda that props up a system where your value is only determined by the wealth you have. This means the majority of people have no value in the current system.
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Because they know they’re going to lose and want to say “I could have made things affordable but you guys elected a democrat” when the issue isn’t immediately solved - this will probably happen at every level of government