Why Republicans Are on the Verge of Fistfights
www.politico.com
A historian who studies political violence and the runup to the Civil War explains why congressmen are getting ready to brawl.

This is not opinion or leftist. It’s news about fighting in the party, which is factual, recent, and on-topic.

Removal of this post is admitting that this sub is only about being a safe space for conservatives to circle-jerk while ignoring reality.

I encourage a discussion about the recent conflicts inside the party, how that might impact the party moving forward, and what can be done to prevent this divide.

    • tsonfeir@lemm.eeOP
      103·
      1 year ago

      You must be really old if you can recall a time when democrats discriminated against people based on race. ;-) Parties change. The modern GOP is all about big government, control of people, censorship, and racism.

      But, your answer said all I need to know about your actual position.

      Thanks

      • Throwaway@lemm.ee
        25·
        1 year ago

        They still do. They just dress it up and call it diversity now-a-days. Just look at college admissions for a good example.

            • tsonfeir@lemm.eeOP
              3·
              1 year ago

              Well, I think college admission should be done entirely by a computer, that simply takes that person‘s transcripts and accomplishments, and what not, to decide if they are accepted. Not human interaction.

              But I can understand how a white person might feel disappointed if they had to go to a less convenient college because their first pick didn’t have any more slots.

              I suppose we should be sure the balance of men and women isn’t taken into consideration too?

              What about scholarships based on financial need? If a college wanted to accept a certain number of people on scholarships per year, that might cut the open slots for wealthy while males.

              • Throwaway@lemm.ee
                13·
                1 year ago

                Not just white people, Asians are the most affected by Affirmative Action.

                I know it’s not possible to be perfect (There are idiots and assholes in every large group, including college admissions), but imo effort should be made to be race and sex blind. Right now, effort is being made to the opposite.

            • tsonfeir@lemm.eeOP
              52·
              1 year ago

              What are the major Republican talking points? Trans? Drag? It’s like you’re not being told what the GQP is actually.

              Also, that article is labeled opinion, and those aren’t facts.

                • tsonfeir@lemm.eeOP
                  41·
                  1 year ago

                  Well, unless you’re extremely wealthy, the Republican Party has not lowered taxes for the middle class in the past 20 years or so. Obviously, there is a lot to consider like tax credits, etc. But that blanket statement of “Republicans lower taxes “is not entirely accurate.

    • CaptFeather@lemm.ee
      92·
      1 year ago

      You know that slavery, kkk we’re all democrat things and still are

      According to whom? Both of these things have always been far right ideologies. Are you forgetting the two main parties switched in name a century ago?

            • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
              31·
              1 year ago

              Richard Spencer is the neo-Nazi who started the rally I just fucking asked about! The rally called “Unite the right.” He’s a right-wing crank - he fucking came up with the term alt-right.

              Jesus fuck, this crank opinion piece really tries saying the Nazi who runs a right-wing propaganda campaign and promoted a right-wing rally for other Nazis is totes mcgoats sincere and logical when he claims he’s not right-wing. Guys. Nazis like you. Any time they claim to be socialist - they immediately start murdering actual socialists.

              Do you need a fucking diagram for why an ideology that hates queer people, academia, and feminism keeps showing up at your events?

                • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
                  31·
                  1 year ago

                  Spencer’s a right-wing troll. And a fucking Nazi.

                  Spencer created the brand that the Republican party endorsed.

                  When that sneering bigot says ‘actually I’m left-wing,’ that is literally what the Nazis did. And you still fall for that?

                  What a worthless conversation.