• DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    This is incredibly reductive.

    The biggest / loudest / noisiest do not always win.

    There’s more to politics than “winning”, winning is pointless if you have to trade your principles to do so.

    I don’t think conservatives would say they have up the moral high ground to win. They just interpret morality differently. That doesn’t make it ok, but it does mean that discarding “the moral highground” in order to win is an absurd proposition.

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      1 year ago

      The Republicans’ only principle is winning power. Therefore any lie, change in position, or trick in service of that is not a sacrifice. I’m not being sarcastic. That’s really all they are now.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, my reading of it is arrogance. They genuinely believe that they are the better governers because they will guide the nation on a godly path, therefore a bit of theatre (lies) in a campaign is the lesser evil.