To your point below conor, Matt Labash agrees with you. Who we elect is a reflection of us.
But — and this is not a popular answer even if it’s a gong I sound regularly — one of the real reasons he won is because too many Americans are as decadent and depraved as our leaders, who, after all, we elect. We used to at least pretend character counted. Now, we don’t even bother. As George Carlin said in an old bit I ran on my site a few weeks back:
If you have selfish ignorant citizens, you’re gonna get selfish ignorant leaders. So maybe…. it’s not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here. Like the public.
Link: https://mattlabash.substack.com/p/casting-a-wide-net
Replies to: To your point below conor, Matt Labash agrees with you. Who we elect is a reflection of us.
Who and how a party nominates its leader reflects how they feel about the country as a whole.
Our coastal elites could give a shit about the deplorable masses.
LET THEM EAT CAKE.
So that means we nominate a sociopath, narcissistic, authoritarian? You guys.
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Apparently this is true. But is it genetic or developmental?
If the former... the species is doomed.
You tell me. It’s tribalism. If it weren’t, you think Orange, Biden, or Harris would be anyone’s
1st choice as the best to lead the nation?
Conor? The guy who put on his confederate hat and asked who would pick crops w/o immigrants/slaves?
No difference from him and the slave owners. They both want people to pick the crops, and make the lawn look good. They also both tried to make people think Jesus was ok with that.
I mean, you have a point. Great citizens elect great leaders.
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Remember that one time a majority of Americans didn’t elect Kamala Harris?
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Pretty sure the Dems didn't vote for her either - not even one delegate in the 2020 primary.
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Yeah they elected the scummiest dirtbag to ever run for the job. The entire point.
He is what we want and what we are right now. Nauseating.
One month and 2 days later …
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A bit wordy, but he's pretty much got it.
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We are no longer a principled people. Too shallow, too transactional.
But, I never lose hope. America always finds its way.
Biden pardoned his son. all good
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The liberal war on religion, morality, and the family is taking its toll.
With the Republican victory, there will at least be some support for the family from our federal bureaucrats.
Conor does not like for the Right to fight back.
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Testify!
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That’s perfect
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Yeah MAGA is the party of family, morality and religion just like its leader. What planet do you
live on? You think Gaetz, Bobby Jr, or Hegseth represent those values?
See Project 2025. All about support for family and faith.
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Seriously?...with a Felon, Rapist, Fraud as President, who chooses a Sex Trafficker for AG and
a serial abuser of women for Sec'y of Defense, who's own Mom can't stand him?
Are you posting while under a Concussion Protocol?
A moral person would not choose that type of person to lead the nation.
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Don’t confuse Trump’s behavior with the values of the typical Republican voter. Many held their nose
and voted for him.
And voted for a serial woman assaulter. Yeah the party of family and faith.
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Trump to the Republican Party is like a pedophile priest to the Catholic church
A really bad example of someone in a position of power within the organization.
And what should the Church do with a Pedo priest? Certainly not make him the Pope, yes? Sheeesh.
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Yeah, right. You mean the plan that the great truth telling leader claimed he never heard of?
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