I think the "something making them resort to seriously sordid acts of desperation" is POWER. This march to gain control for the minority in America has been carefully planned for decades by rich Republican donors and organizations like the Federalist Society. They saw that white males would be in the minority in the foreseeable future …
I think the "something making them resort to seriously sordid acts of desperation" is POWER. This march to gain control for the minority in America has been carefully planned for decades by rich Republican donors and organizations like the Federalist Society. They saw that white males would be in the minority in the foreseeable future and have worked for decades to build up and radicalize their base using made up issues like abortion rights (which had not been a Republican issue before) and white male grievance, while also carefully inserting Republicans into state legislatures and onto various courts across the country. The ultimate result was their ability to shove radical right wing lawyers onto the Supreme Court until they had a majority AND to impress their Republican politicians that if they wanted white Republican males and right-wing rich corporations to exert maximum control over America, they had to do whatever it took to gain and hold power. So the overwhelming motivator for the politicians is not hate, it's power. It's not virtuous religious beliefs or morality that motivates Rusty Bowers, Mike Pense and Brad Raffensperger. They don't want to "violate" their oath of office to gain power, but they don't mind voting for a president that violates his oath of office and everything else he can get his hands on so they can gain and keep power. So that's my answer, Jay. POWER and the belief by Republicans that they stand to lose it, possibly forever, if they don't lie, cheat and steal their way into top positions in the United States. The results of this Republican lust for power at any cost has many victims in its wake, one such group are the severely radicalized, out of control cult members of the base, who do ooze with hate for anything that they have been programmed to see as bad, which includes many progressive ideas.
I think the "something making them resort to seriously sordid acts of desperation" is POWER. This march to gain control for the minority in America has been carefully planned for decades by rich Republican donors and organizations like the Federalist Society. They saw that white males would be in the minority in the foreseeable future and have worked for decades to build up and radicalize their base using made up issues like abortion rights (which had not been a Republican issue before) and white male grievance, while also carefully inserting Republicans into state legislatures and onto various courts across the country. The ultimate result was their ability to shove radical right wing lawyers onto the Supreme Court until they had a majority AND to impress their Republican politicians that if they wanted white Republican males and right-wing rich corporations to exert maximum control over America, they had to do whatever it took to gain and hold power. So the overwhelming motivator for the politicians is not hate, it's power. It's not virtuous religious beliefs or morality that motivates Rusty Bowers, Mike Pense and Brad Raffensperger. They don't want to "violate" their oath of office to gain power, but they don't mind voting for a president that violates his oath of office and everything else he can get his hands on so they can gain and keep power. So that's my answer, Jay. POWER and the belief by Republicans that they stand to lose it, possibly forever, if they don't lie, cheat and steal their way into top positions in the United States. The results of this Republican lust for power at any cost has many victims in its wake, one such group are the severely radicalized, out of control cult members of the base, who do ooze with hate for anything that they have been programmed to see as bad, which includes many progressive ideas.
Yup.