They don't. Of fact it's the Republican party which currently wants to turn the United States into a third-world dictatorship like North Korea or the old Soviet Union. This is a shocking claim for many Republicans to hear but it's absolutely true. Currently, Democrats really want to preserve the political traditions of the United States, including a free press, a democratically-elected government, the rule of law, Etc. On the other hand, Republicans are increasingly disenchanted with many of those things. The best example is the Free Press. Republicans absolutely hate the idea of Free Press which will attempt to objectively hold the powerful to account. Instead, what Republicans want, at least when a republican is in power, is a media which is essentially a propaganda arm of the political party. For example, when Trump was in power Fox News operated essentially as state TV. The network relentlessly pushed Trump propaganda and, rather than holding him accountable, shaped all of its coverage with the aim of promoting his presidency. Several Fox on-air news personalities even explicitly talked about themselves as being on the same side as the president. There have been numerous outside commentators who compared the coverage on Fox 2 that provided by officially state-run media in dictatorships such as North Korea. I think it's safe to say that Republicans, in general, no longer believe in the idea of Free Press but instead want one which is compliant to the will of the Republican Party, the one that they believe should be the ruling party. That's a future of soviet-style dictatorships, not a thriving democracy. Republicans have also become increasingly disenchanted with elections, mainly because they have increasing difficulty in winning them. Since they found it more difficult to achieve power through elections, they sought ways to try and get around them and Brig the outcomes to favor them. That's why we're seeing so many of these new laws passed like in Georgia. The issue is a fraud. Every state election official in Georgia says there was no fraud in 2020. The issue, instead, is their desire to shake the electorate so that it will be more likely to elect them. A few Republicans have even been honest about the fact that they don't want free and open elections but want elections conducted by certain types of people, once you they believe are better. This idea, of sham elections which serve mainly to reinforce the rulership of leading party, is also a typical feature of dictatorships and not democracies. Republicans have also become less enchanted with the idea of the rule of law. Republicans used to care rather deeply about the idea that rule of law. But that's largely Fallen by the wayside in the 21st century. Republicans do make a lot of noise about the rule of law when it comes to Illegal immigration, but that's about it. Another space as they often don't feel that the laws apply to them. You could see this with their support for the blatant illegality of Donald Trump. There's also a lot of fantasizing about illegal activity on their part, such as shooting immigrants at the border. And then you had the January 6th insurrection which was incredibly illegal in which many Republicans seem to downplay. You even have a sitting Republican Senator, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, saying that the people who invaded the Capitol and tried to overthrow the government were simply expressing their political beliefs and that he wasn't afraid of them. So what we see is a situation where Republicans believe that there should really be two tiers of law. There should be a set of laws which apply to people who they don't like, whether it's immigrants, liberals, women seeking abortions Etc. Then they believe that there should be a different, more lenient, set of laws which apply to them and when it comes to the leaders who they agree with craps there should be no law at all. Again, this is highly reminiscent of the situation in dictatorships such as the Soviet Union or North Korea where the privileged Elite is subject to one set of laws and other people are subject to a different set.
We can see that it's really Republicans who want to turn the United States into something approaching the old Soviet Union or the current North Korea. They want a one-party state where elections are mere spectacle used to reinforce the ruling party, where the Press is compliant to the wishes of the ruler, and where the law only minimally constrains the rulers and those who agree with him. Democrats reject all of that.
I guess all those dead people are a hoax too. Why don't republicans realize that calling everything they don't like communism just makes people stop taking them seriously?
Because it would be ideal to live in a Workers World, where people's needs and the environment came before the endless, insane pursuit of profit and greed. All misery, corruption and suffering can end. We can all live in a better world.
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Pot meet kettle.
They don't. Of fact it's the Republican party which currently wants to turn the United States into a third-world dictatorship like North Korea or the old Soviet Union. This is a shocking claim for many Republicans to hear but it's absolutely true. Currently, Democrats really want to preserve the political traditions of the United States, including a free press, a democratically-elected government, the rule of law, Etc. On the other hand, Republicans are increasingly disenchanted with many of those things. The best example is the Free Press. Republicans absolutely hate the idea of Free Press which will attempt to objectively hold the powerful to account. Instead, what Republicans want, at least when a republican is in power, is a media which is essentially a propaganda arm of the political party. For example, when Trump was in power Fox News operated essentially as state TV. The network relentlessly pushed Trump propaganda and, rather than holding him accountable, shaped all of its coverage with the aim of promoting his presidency. Several Fox on-air news personalities even explicitly talked about themselves as being on the same side as the president. There have been numerous outside commentators who compared the coverage on Fox 2 that provided by officially state-run media in dictatorships such as North Korea. I think it's safe to say that Republicans, in general, no longer believe in the idea of Free Press but instead want one which is compliant to the will of the Republican Party, the one that they believe should be the ruling party. That's a future of soviet-style dictatorships, not a thriving democracy. Republicans have also become increasingly disenchanted with elections, mainly because they have increasing difficulty in winning them. Since they found it more difficult to achieve power through elections, they sought ways to try and get around them and Brig the outcomes to favor them. That's why we're seeing so many of these new laws passed like in Georgia. The issue is a fraud. Every state election official in Georgia says there was no fraud in 2020. The issue, instead, is their desire to shake the electorate so that it will be more likely to elect them. A few Republicans have even been honest about the fact that they don't want free and open elections but want elections conducted by certain types of people, once you they believe are better. This idea, of sham elections which serve mainly to reinforce the rulership of leading party, is also a typical feature of dictatorships and not democracies. Republicans have also become less enchanted with the idea of the rule of law. Republicans used to care rather deeply about the idea that rule of law. But that's largely Fallen by the wayside in the 21st century. Republicans do make a lot of noise about the rule of law when it comes to Illegal immigration, but that's about it. Another space as they often don't feel that the laws apply to them. You could see this with their support for the blatant illegality of Donald Trump. There's also a lot of fantasizing about illegal activity on their part, such as shooting immigrants at the border. And then you had the January 6th insurrection which was incredibly illegal in which many Republicans seem to downplay. You even have a sitting Republican Senator, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, saying that the people who invaded the Capitol and tried to overthrow the government were simply expressing their political beliefs and that he wasn't afraid of them. So what we see is a situation where Republicans believe that there should really be two tiers of law. There should be a set of laws which apply to people who they don't like, whether it's immigrants, liberals, women seeking abortions Etc. Then they believe that there should be a different, more lenient, set of laws which apply to them and when it comes to the leaders who they agree with craps there should be no law at all. Again, this is highly reminiscent of the situation in dictatorships such as the Soviet Union or North Korea where the privileged Elite is subject to one set of laws and other people are subject to a different set.
We can see that it's really Republicans who want to turn the United States into something approaching the old Soviet Union or the current North Korea. They want a one-party state where elections are mere spectacle used to reinforce the ruling party, where the Press is compliant to the wishes of the ruler, and where the law only minimally constrains the rulers and those who agree with him. Democrats reject all of that.
They don't. Why do conservatives suck up to Putin?
I guess all those dead people are a hoax too. Why don't republicans realize that calling everything they don't like communism just makes people stop taking them seriously?
Because it would be ideal to live in a Workers World, where people's needs and the environment came before the endless, insane pursuit of profit and greed. All misery, corruption and suffering can end. We can all live in a better world.
Stop insulting socialists like me. Liberals love their capitalism.
Why do conservatives think America needs to be more of an oligarchy like Russia or a theocracy like Iran or Saudi Arabia?
A third world country with 21 ballistic missile submarines part offshore of all these other countries? Yeah sure whatever.