(January 30, 2024 at 4:01 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(January 30, 2024 at 3:14 pm)ShinyCrystals Wrote: Yeah, I meant to say they were much worse (which I somehow did not think of at the time of that post I made), but yeah, you are correct. These fools are becoming, or are dangerous to this country's values and other things. I bet they are even a danger to the USA themselves. With that said, they are the stagnancy that is brainwashing the people who are being used and manipulated like sheep. Whatever the case, the republicans' supporters and what they have become have made it so that they do not really have free will since they are more so brainwashed by the republicans, so while they may be here, I doubt they should be considered residents of the USA since they blindly support people who are not for this nation.
1) I don't think all Republicans are brainwashed. I think the MAGAts are certainly in a form of self-hypnosis, only consuming content that supports their world-view and denouncing everything else as "fake news". That's self-programming.
The other Republicans who aren't Trumpeteers are generally cowards who will not stake their political careers to fight this obvious disease. They'd rather go along to get along --and, incidentally, stay in office sucking that that gubmint teat they claim to despise -- or they'd rather wait until they retire from office (and therefore have no leverage in the party) before speaking out. Three exceptions to this: Romney, Liz Cheney, and Adam Kinzinger.
2) I'm not keen on stripping citizens of their citizenship for the act of expressing political opinions, no matter how stupid or obnoxious they are. We don't even strip traitors of their citizenship; we convict them and then jail or execute them. Criminalizing political thought almost certainly would fail the First Amendment tests, too.
I did not say we should strip them. If anything, I meant more that they just should not be seen as people of the USA considering how unfaithful they are. That said, they can remain in the country’s borders, live in this country and even have the documents for citizenship for all I care, but no actual banishment.
Also, I did not say all republicans were brainwashed, or at least did not mean to. I know there are better republicans out there, and as long as they are better than the far right or Trumpists, I do have no problem with them. I may have done a bad job at saying it, but I know not all republicans are bad.
I still think the republicans, at least the far right ones, are the stagnancy that hurts this country.
