Conservatives starting to say the quite part out loud. They have no policy agenda and can only foment perpetual culture wars....

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Conservative ‘policy’ nowadays is just a set of vacuous bumper sticker slogans like: MAGA, don’t tread on me, lock her up, fire Fauci, stop the steal.

There’s no intellectual or data-driven policy basis driving the GOP any more. It’s just about “pwning teh libs”.

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That’s the low income version. The high income version is leveraging rural rubes under “government is the problem”, “focus on the family”, “reverse racism”, etc

Always remember that wealthy Republicans rely on the votes of those they look down upon

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My 2 cents is that this is why it’s important that Democrats abolish the filibuster in the US Senate. If we had a normal Republican Party interested in working towards a common solution, albeit with different policy ideas, I wouldn’t have minded and said let’s try and work together and not blow things up.

But considering that Republicans now have no policy agenda whatsoever and are solely about culture wars, there’s no point to preserving the filibuster in hope of some illusion of ‘bipartisanship’. The country’s problems can’t wait.

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Counsel 1 - I agree with you that the GOP might try and reciprocate. But frankly, what’s the alternative? Literally nothing is getting passed right now. The GOP, under McConnell, has become insanely obstructionist.

If Ds didn’t hold the US Senate, I can almost wager that even Biden’s Cabinet (except for a few positions) would not get confirmed, let alone sub-Cabinet posts, Judges, Ambassadors, US Attorneys etc. McConnell has grind the entire legislative agenda of the government to a halt.

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I’m neither defending nor criticizing the post but somebody asked what this was getting at.  I think it might be that if you see cultural changes that you don’t agree with (doesnt make you right), the concern is that policy which you similarly don’t agree with, will follow. I don’t know if this is what was intended but here’s an example I can think of. I hear people saying that hate speech is not Constitutionally protected speech. Hate speech is most certainly protected by the Constitution (with very limited exceptions). The concern might be that if there is a constant cultural push against what someone might deem to be hate speech, that there will policy or legislative changes that start to erode that right. Similarly I’ve heard this discussed w/r/t anti-racism. Some believe that anti-racism means being against racism in the vein of the teachings of MLK. Others believe anti-racism is defined more in the vein of the teachings of Kendi. As you see a cultural shift towards the latter, then policies in the school systems and in state laws will start to shift accordingly. Therefore culture often leads the way. I think that’s the idea here

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Re-read this. It’s dumb lol

What the fuck does culture have to do with making sure people can put food on the table?

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Well... it requires a culture of feeding people to feed people. If you imagine that all cultures must do this, question your premise.

His logic is valid but the contextual understanding isn’t quite there. Collective values->culture->value judgement->policy preferences. That much is true. What he’s missing (probably intentionally) is that we don’t value the same things anymore and that makes them see us as enemies. Hence “culture war” type language.

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