Republicans urge the ignorant to ‘just say no’ to science
chicago.suntimes.com
Nationally, a study by Yale researchers determined that “the excess [COVID] death rate among Republican voters was 43% higher than the excess death rate among Democratic voters.”
They are literally being deceived to death.
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Isn't killing your constituents a bad long term political strategy?
They don't plan to win with votes.
Republicans no longer believe in the Republic.
They're all in with this guy Gerry. He's manderin' all over tarnation!
They already don't have a long term. They have to do a coup this decade or they're fucked. Loyalty is more important than long term voting here
Covid was a great litmus test for that question and republicans failed miserably
stupid people breed more, so so long as the birth rate among republicans less the excess death rate outstrips the birthrate plus the excess survivial of the democrats then they will increase their vote share.
whether that's the case or not i don't know but they have other pokers in the fire. attacking education in multiple ways for instance. dragging the next generation down to their level.
Their well documented gerrymandering
Their attacks on the fabric of democracy itself. if you can't win elections, get rid of them.
Their stacking of the courts
In true Republican fashion however, they've flubbed it. The youth is overwhelmingly for Democrats and outright loathes Republicans. Either controlling the poor hasn't turned out that effective for them*, or it's too early to see results. And in the meantime, they're killing their already aging and dwindling base.
*I think they've failed to brainwash young poor children. The vast majority of people I graduated high school with a decade ago, in the Midwest, have become clearly liberal and Democrat. Even the ones who were conservative in school.
They're targeting Gen Alpha though (and the one after that). Gen Z is just about out of K12, but their younger siblings have to deal with stuff like PragerU being part of the official curriculum. I hope the teachers can work around it, but it looks grim.
If only more people voted.
Republican politicians live by "I'll be gone, you'll be gone" at the end of the day.
They know the rest of us will be stuck holding the bag.
My parent actually said this to me.
You're kidding yourself if you think they have any long-term policies. Anything they're doing is to have an immediate effect, even if they're doing it at the cost of their own well-being.
These people barely see to the next election. Rarely beyond the fiscal quarter.
That's why Fox News famously started touting the vaccine after it came out. They realized their base was dying out faster than democrats. This backpedaling helped push co serrations away from fox News to other sources.
Well they aren't smart.