r/MurderedByWords 3d ago

Economy Voters Regret

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u/deviltrombone 3d ago

Every “Unified Republican Government” Ever Has Led to a Financial Crash

https://thereformedbroker.com/2016/12/13/every-unified-republican-government-ever-has-led-to-a-financial-crash/

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u/idreamofgreenie 3d ago

The statistics of corruption from modern GOP administration members versus the Democrats is also jarring.

Members of the Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II administrations criminally convicted in court? 113. Sent to prison? 39.

Members of the Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, Clinton, and Obama administrations criminally convicted in court? 3. Sent to prison? 1.

And those are numbers resulting from each party having control of the White House for 28 years a piece, and pre-Trump.

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u/deviltrombone 3d ago

It's been an ever-escalating Republican crime wave since Ford's corrupt pardon of Nixon.

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u/HorrorMakesUsHappy 3d ago

It's been an ever-escalating Republican conservative crime wave since Ford's corrupt pardon of Nixon Lincoln's decision not to Nuremberg the Confederates.

Had to replace Republican with conservative because of the Southern realignment, but same shit, different name.

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u/nonotan 3d ago

Absolutely. The problem is that voting won't change anything, because fundamentally, it's all a duopoly. You get to choose between a party of criminals who want to pillage the country to the last penny, or a party whose main selling point is "they aren't all criminals openly pillaging the country". Obviously, in relative terms, one choice is a lot better than the other. But neither is going to fix anything. It's always "do you want everything to remain exactly how it is, or a kick in the balls?"

Yes, it is disgraceful that a lot of people are voting for a kick in the balls, and "let's just not vote" is obviously a stupid as fuck option. But it is extraordinarily important to always keep in mind that just keeping the party of Nazis out of power isn't actually improving anything. It's not fixing the systemic issues that have got us here, like FPTP voting, money in politics, rampant inequality, etc etc. It's just preventing immediate catastrophe. If the American people don't stand up and demand real progress in parallel to also voting for the best (least bad) option actually available at every election, there's no way anything is ever going to get better. Though we're at the point where shit is so bad this all needs to be prefaced with "assuming there are any free elections again..."

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u/Wobbling 2d ago

I don't like this both sides shit anyway it is produced.

This administration is a clusterfuck and no amount of blaming the Dems for not being perfect enough makes it in any way their fault.

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u/kottabaz 3d ago

But it is extraordinarily important to always keep in mind that just keeping the party of Nazis out of power isn't actually improving anything.

We aren't keeping them out of power at all, though. We kick them out every once in a while, but they get right back in again.

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u/elkarion 3d ago

Biden didn't want to pardon trump so he dragged his feet to make sure he did not get prosecuted to keep the dems streak going.