Democrats hate us politically/philosophically. They see us as their enemy in the way of cultural hegemony. Republicans hate us personally. They desire to pillage and plunder for their interests as Democrats do, but we demand they do more and other things they don’t want to.
This is also why Democrats tend to come across to us as more honest about who they really are. They have no need or desire to maintain a relationship with an avowed enemy, so they don’t care one iota what we think. We’re unpersoned to them.
However, Republicans need to maintain our dysfunctional relationship to stay in power for pillage and plunder. Thus, they must lie to us, and often do, with limited exceptions we all know. Most Republicans aren’t collectively dumb or weak — they just don’t agree with us.
You would appear to be dumb or weak, too, pretending to defend something you don’t really believe in. Consistent boldness comes from conviction, not mere performance. For eventually your bluff is called and you face opposition. Only true believers continue to stand.
For whatever reason(s), we have participated in this partisan lie for decades. And this is the main reason why we’re constantly failed by GOP politicians, judges, etc. They went out from us, but they did not come from us.
Until we demand better, or do the better ourselves, our political fate is sealed. Ron DeSantis is a unicorn, sadly.
End of tough love political science lesson.
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