Comments by "DynamicWorlds" (@dynamicworlds1) on "Koch Bros To Spend Money On Corporate Democrats" video.
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@CutThroatJuggalo both want the cultural battle to go on indefinitely, though. The GOP will stir up irrational hatred to get bigots to vote against their own interests, and the "Democrats" then get to play "good cop" and say "I know you don't really like the platform we're giving you, but can you risk not taking the deal?"
They can also, like $hillary and many others have done, play things such that the public has to spend their political capital in the form of time and energy to get them to "evolve" on an issue. In the meantime, they're made a mess of the economy, violated constitutional limits on power, and "ops" lost ground on another social issue.
We won some ground with the last administration on gay and trans rights, but Obama broke deportation records, normalized Bush's constitutional violations, set up the next market crash, put the healthcare discussion back to "is Romneycare too left-wing", and "couldn't do anything" as the GOP set themselves up to stack the courts to (among other things) put Roe vs Wade back under threat so that they could use that as a threat on the voters to vote for an even further right-wing "Democrat" than Obama, shifting the Overton Window further right no matter which way the election went.
They even quietly expanded executive power after Trump won to ensure he would be able to do even more damage when he got in so their next candidate would look better by comparison.
As long as the current illusion of a 2-party system remains, all gains are temporary, because neither the GOP nor "Democrats" want anything solved permanently.
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