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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNancy nails it.
We dont have shared values. Thats just the way it is.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, quoted by Politico, on negotiations with Republicans over a coronavirus relief bill.
https://politicalwire.com/2020/07/31/bonus-quote-of-the-day-1367/
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I'll take a swing at spelling it out: Democrats want to treat the pandemic as a public health emergency; Republicans want to game it for political and financial gain.
Blue Owl
(50,494 posts)Fuck McConnell.
handmade34
(22,757 posts)2 different species... it seems
Harker
(14,034 posts)Sharers and hoarders.
handmade34
(22,757 posts)human/non-human
ok... they are human in the biological sense but not in anyway I think of... and certainly not humane
Behaviorally inhuman and inhumane, certainly.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)They have no cortex.
BComplex
(8,064 posts)It really does seem like we're 2 different species.
I don't see how we can possibly find common ground with this bunch! They are willingly brainwashed, and they're ADDICTED to their brainwashing. They have NO capacity for logic or foresight to see where their bone-headed ideas would take us.
crickets
(25,983 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,795 posts)The Republicans have for decades appealed to voter's greed, ignorance, authoritarianism, fear, and bigotry.
The Democrats appeal to compassion, logic, tolerance, equal rights and worker's rights.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)KS Toronado
(17,317 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,286 posts)You cling to the positions of your opponents when it can do something for you, like convince a few percentage of their voters that you're ok too.
When you are pushing the opposition away, isolating them, they are toxic. Republicans are on a sinking ship and we are wise not to offer a lifeline.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)gademocrat7
(10,669 posts)OMGWTF
(3,975 posts)To that I would add: coddling the rich, colluding with our enemies, and general asshatery.
PatrickforO
(14,587 posts)Right she is. The Republican party does not value people so does not share values with us.
niyad
(113,552 posts)Bluethroughu
(5,186 posts)jaxexpat
(6,849 posts)on which that society rests. The original feather-touch pavement slam that WILL leave a bruise.
maxsolomon
(33,400 posts)we used to share basic things like the Golden Rule. now they DGAF.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)FoxNewsSucks
(10,435 posts)Americans and Republicans do not have any shared values