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So, let me get this straight, because I’m really trying to believe the Republicans aren’t the party of hypocrisy they seem to be.

Capitalism rules the day. It’s the American Dream. Corporations are people and they should have the right to exercise free commerce and excel at making money. Unless we run out of something or a corporation grows predictably too fast and massively. Then we need government to get us what we want.

Hands off autonomy and liberty of one’s life. Unless you don’t like Roe v. Wade, and then you’d like the government to regulate its citizens’ bodies and personal choices. At least half of them, anyway.

Can’t tell a citizen where to wave a flag, what gun to own, can’t make them wear a mask or get vaccinated. Liberty is absolute and these colors don’t run and ‘Murica. Unless you find something foreign or icky and then you’d like the government to be able to investigate private citizens for their gender identities and whether they’re bring “abused.”

Out of one side of your mouth you mock, denigrate and criticize a man you can’t even call president, and then you scream out to him for not satisfying your whims.

If anyone has an answer that isn’t deflection, defensive, a strawman or some other logical fallacy, I’d love to hear it. Feel free to constructively point out the weaknesses among the Democratic Party. Not as a game of tit-for-tat but in the spirit of beginning discussion that rises above the grade school playground.
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justanothername · 51-55, M
Government regulations/requirements are like a drivers license. If you want to own and drive a vehicle on US roads then you need a drivers license. When you get one you agree to abide by the rules and regulations set out by the traffic department which are designed to encourage driver safety. If you break those rules you get penalized.
As long as you stay within those rules like a hundred million other Americans then you are free to drive anywhere at any time.
Interestingly enough lots of people have drivers licenses in the US and generally don’t have a issue with getting one.
Graylight · 51-55, F
@justanothername Never have I known a nation with a stronger sense of assigning blame and assessing penalty. Not necessarily a good thing.
justanothername · 51-55, M
@Graylight I’ve also never known a nation to have so many lawyers per head of population as the US.