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Masculine Policy: The GOP’s Plan To Outlaw ‘Porn’ And Suspend The First Amendment (www.techdirt.com)
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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Shrinking? They increased their seats in the house last election, and now control >50%.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The Republicans party is very much elderly people, uneducated people, and religious people.

    The old people are dying, religion is on a steady decline.

    The thing is that Republicans show up to vote because their bubble is largely fear driven politics.

    They also have gerrymandering on their side, they limit polling places, they unconstitutionally use poll taxes that disproportionately affect minorities, they make voting harder by eliminating vote by mail... In short, they cheat like fuckin crazy and rile up their base to get out and vote.

    I would not agree that they're gonna disappear by 2028, but they are waning.

    Globally, far right politicians are getting more votes.

    GOP will be around for decades or more.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Does anyone understand why the far right is coming back?

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    It's not coming back, it never left. We're seeing them get more aggressive because they know that the newer generation isn't buying into the ideology as much as previous generations and so their ideals are going to die with them unless they use systemic tools to enforce it.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Everything you’ve said is true. But it was all true in 70s as well. Todays young people aren’t going to remain as progressive - every generation becomes more conservative over time. Hell, baby boomers were hippies. That Karen who votes for Trump and calls the HOA when you forget to take your bins in on time - there’s a good chance she was burning her bra for equal pay when she was in college.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    That depends on material conditions. An economic boom doesn’t seem to be on the horizon, and boomers could have turned out very differently without the 80s. Plus, the boomers didn’t have to contend with climate change being obviously real. There are limits to our ecosystem, limits boomers didn’t have to work around, but we do. I don’t think younger people are better than boomers were, but I also don’t think that belief is the only possible source of hope.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago*

    They won the overall popular vote for the House by 2.8% in a midterm election with a somewhat unpopular President from the opposite party plus economic turmoil. The standard assumption would be that they'd blow it out. In the 2018 midterms, Democrats won the popular vote for the House by almost 10% under somewhat similar circumstances.

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