Of course, even if they understood and accepted it as reality, they wouldn't necessarily care to do anything about it, given their egoism and opposition to welfare state policies addressed to people's well-being. Oddly, that's also a noted element of bad economics in the conservative style.

Conservatives, Republicans have difficulty thinking about mental illness and other elements of reality because of their commitment to the rhetoric of anti-democracy bad economics in the conservative style in which, riffing off neoclassical welfare economics, it's all meant to be personal choice.

That would be great for ratings, am I right? Best ratings ever.

Saw some poll results. Sobering to think about a third of the USA is just absolutely committed anti-democracy, anti-US Constitution, anti-rule or law fascist / gangster garbage of the worst sort imaginable. Never underestimate the powerful undercurrent of right wing evil that exists in the USA.

However, to do this, we have to give up the idea of trying to make friends with them, buttering them up, winning them over, cajoling them, excusing them, wiping the drool off their little chins, and so on. Republicanism is an abomination. Republicans are our enemy.

It's like a Medieval kingdom over there. Lord Dampnut has "his own way of calculating percentages?" Not the actual way? So, in other words, he doesn't know what a percentage is? And his creature heading up our public health agency can't tell him? Wants to back him up? A new definition of percentage?

Take on market utopianism, bad economics in the conservative style, racism, religious bigotry, misogyny, nativism, egoism and indifference to others, anti-democracy sentiment, just all of it. Stop beating around the bush. The problem is conservatism, Republicanism. Say so. Fight against it.

To do that, we really need to redouble our efforts to speak plainly about conservative, Republicans, not get all coy about it, pretend it's some other group, Maga, that's causing the problems, or pretending it's all one man, Lord Dampnut, who came out of nowhere and has cowed all others, etc.

I saw an article on CNN that fascist political rhetoricians want to portray the midterms as a choice between parties, not a referendum on the Republican Party's leader Lord Dampnut. Good chance for Democrats to take the bull by the horns and confront poisonous conservative, Republican rhetoric.

You don't think so? Ask conservative, right wing, Republican, anti-democracy fascist Sen. Johnson of the Magatonian province of Wisconsin (the Alabama of the North). He'll explain it all to you and give you one of his patented establishment elite, rich guy, country club smirks to top it off.

Well, you know how conservative, Republican voters think about showing concern for the welfare of other people's children, right? They don't care about it. Not one little bit. Give them a buck, and they'd be perfectly satisfied if every kid in the US got lung cancer in the bargain.

Absolutely. But in some areas of Magatonia even the Dems are fascists, just not quite as bad as Republican fascists. But also, I can hear it now, some conservative wag in the back, cracking wise, "I get you. I hear what you're saying. So both parties are the same?"

For those who don't know which way is up. Consider whether you think Lord Dampnut is fit to be president, doing a bang up job out there, or if you think he's a bit of a dumpster fire. If the former, you're more like Republicans, conservative non-Republicans (I). If the latter, you're more like Dems.

I was talking, briefly, with someone who said she "thinks about politics all the time" who claimed she could detect no systematic differences between Republicans and Democrats and thus just voted the individual based on personality. I found it pretty comical. A mark waiting in line to be fleeced.

But as I can infer you're not particularly bothered by conservative, right wing, Republican anti-democracy fascism / gangsterism, and you're just as likely to vote for a Republican fascist / gangster as a Democrat, I think it's past time we parted company. Goodbye.

Not sure many people cage themselves into isms's, but as there are ideologies, parties, platforms, values, visions, objectives, goals, policies, most people end up preferring some position or other. But others go more with personality, charism, charm, celebrity, wealth, what have you.

Oh, I see. Are they part of the Big Tent of miscreants who support the anti-democracy movement. I suppose in many cases they are. Conservatives, right wingers, Republican love the poorly educated, the simplistic, the complacent, the indifferent, the utopian, all that sort.

Don't "define" themselves politically? So don't think about politics enough to know how to describe their perspectives and values, or are inconsistent and one minute support this, the next minute the opposite, or like non-voters? What about them? Who the hell cares? Just random noise, isn't it?

I saw a clip of some blonde Nazi bimbo proposing egoistic Lord Dampnut "is a humanitarian at heart." She does know the conservative, Republican position on concern for others, other people's children, the welfare state goals of concerns for others' well-being and so on, right? Comical Nazi clown.

Whenever anyone calls out Republicans for anything they do, the reflexive reaction of many American voters is "Democrats too!" It's comically false, the parties are clearly not the same, now especially, but it gives one insight into complacent non-voting tools of the fascists.

A great many Americans seem determined to propose both parties are the same. It's hard to not see the hand of conservative rhetoricians playing games with anarchist rhetoric in which the villain is meant to be "government" or "The State" and it doesn't really matter what sort, which party, etc.

There's a funny disconnect between conservative, Republican voters claiming they're wise to the fact conservatives, Republicans lie for political effect, and them taking every bit of risible conservative, Republican political and economic rhetoric for the past forty years so literally and seriously.

If you're a conservative, Republican you should know this is the best it gets for you. Your people control every facet of our government: the WH, Congress, the Supreme Court, executive agencies, law enforcement, military. Like it or not, but never say you didn't get everything you wanted.

Why doesn't she tell the little girl they might also simply be evil, have defective values, dodgy moral and ethics, even though they're clever like a fox? I think honesty is generally the best policy, especially with curious kids.

Well, the USA may still be the greatest country on earth for the economically powerful establishment elite, the one percent. They are worshipped by conservatives, pay little or no tax, have outsized influence over government, are mostly above the law, and basically just do whatever they like.

That does seem an attractive solution.

Republicans are anti-democracy fascists / gangsters. Their commitment to democracy and the US Constitution goes only so far as their perceived ability to prevail under those systems. The moment they think others might prevail, they're on to the next thing, such as fascism / gangsterism.

Republicans are committed to winning even by things that are clearly illegal, like doing violent terrorism to stop votes being counted and to steal the election for the fascist Leader, Lord Dampnut. They will never not do legal gerrymandering or voter suppression.

If it's legal, then it really doesn't make sense to only have Republican states doing it. Everyone needs to do it. If it's illegal, no one should be doing it. The idea Republicans would ever give up something they can get away with because of morality, ethics, it being not right, is laughable.

I saw one of those conservative, right wing, Republican, anti-democracy fascists arguing all Republican states need to "redistrict" as they did previously in Texas, and I would say the same for all Democratic states. There is no other logical solution. Either gerrymandering is legal or it isn't.