the party of sabotage commits sabotage because it works

[solarbird]

Mehdi Hasan - @mehdirhasan · 1:39 PM · Jan 14, 2022
It begins...

New Virginia Governor Youngkin to Lift School Mask Mandate, Change COVID Policies
Virginia’s next governor, Glenn Youngkin, said he will lift the state’s school mask mandate and change other COVID-19 policies after taking office Jan. 15.

If you vote for the @GOP, you are voting to make the plague worse.

This is what they do.

They are a party literally doing everything in their power to make COVID-19 worse, sabotaging every attempt to control it, at every level.

This is an extension of their general philosophy, that either it's their country to rule, or there'll be no country to rule.

When in power, they loot, funneling money upwards.

When out of power, they sabotage everything in sight.

Even attempts to control a deadly pandemic.

They do this because _it works_. It rewards them with power, because people blame the "ruling party," no matter what the opposition does.

In our system, the opposition can do a lot. When it's acting in good faith, that's fine. Healthy.

When it's acting in _bad_ faith, it's not.

Right now, they're doing everything in their power to sabotage the economy, the right to vote - even working to make COVID worse.

And people ignore all that, blaming those who are at least _trying_ to get this under control.

Exactly as the GOP expect.

That's why they do it.

Because. It. Works.

So every time someone goes, "I'm never voting again!" or "I'm never voting Democratic again," you might hear a little _snap_.

That's another Republican saboteur getting their pitchfork.

"Our Country, or No Country" is why the country is falling apart.

I mean, there are a bunch of other reasons, _obviously_. This shit works because of other reasons, _obviously_, the single biggest one of which is racism, the second biggest one of which is misogyny, and I think they're more neck and neck than a lot of people realise.

It's their out-and-out willingness to go all-in on balls-to-the-wall it's-ours-or-we'll-destroy-it-all bad-faith exploitation of it - to make it worse, not better, and all for power...

_That's_ what's breaking everything apart.

And they know.

And they don't care.

Because if it's not their country, as far as they're concerned, there shouldn't be a country.

See MTG's "national divorce," just for starters.

Most of them don't want to go that far. For one thing, that wouldn't leave them enough "liberals" to "own." But also, it'd hurt the economy in the wrong ways.

They'd rather just destroy democracy, and replace it with a facade where they can't lose power.

Which is, of course, the goal.

So I suppose for the most part it's less "Our Country or No Country," it's more, "Our Democracy, or No Democracy."

Which, really, is about the same thing.

Hungary and Russia are the models. The pretense, but not the reality, of representative government.

And every time you blame the opposition for Republican sabotage, and decide not to vote, or reward them in _any_ way...

...you move it a little further along.

I mean, sure, bitch at Democrats all you want to. Go at 'em. Primary the worst fuckers, absolutely - Manchin, Sinema? Fuck yeah go at. I sure am.

But in the end, put the blame where it most belongs: at the feet of those trying to end the democracy of this republic. The GOP.

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[rialian]

===argh.

===Winchester VA is one of the areas that we have been going to to get things, as our area is reasaaaly bad regarding any precautions. Winchester has actually been a bit better than Hagerstown, Maryland. (Honsstly, it is really interesting to see the levels of wtf all along the same road (I-81).

===This is going to clusterfrag the area.