It almost never trickles down.

But if you say anything unkind about the republicans, you’re the real monster! /s

Every maga hat is a danger to society. Fuck them.

See, why you gotta lie. They don’t want to kill you. They want you to live a good long exploitable life full of profits for them.

With more words, I nonironically believe this. And it’s really the oligarchy, Republicans are just their best tool.

It will be slightly more subtle. But IMO this is the crux of the overall strategy, and frankly it’s plain as day IMO.

This is the abridged version of the final solution as far as I can tell:

• The only use for the religious part of the religious right is to get birth control down and birth rates up. The reason for this is to keep the factories stocked with workers to ensure the oligarchy has their workforce. Anti-gay stuff? Gay couples don’t make babies. And babies are what it’s all about.

• All that “savings” on those ridiculous cuts to healthcare and healthcare research? It really is savings when you don’t care if people die. And they think they don’t have to care if people die because “only the strong will survive” and also women are now going to be making babies as fast as biology will allow. All the anti-trans stuff? Gender affirming care is expensive, that’s money that could be funding private jets and rebuilding Lolita Island 2.0.

• Now that’s all damn ridiculous and people will surely figure that out as we are doing right now. But, they are slashing all that education funding and removing or whitewashing all those things from history. All they have to do is wait for the pre-dictatorship generations who had a broader education to die out, and (they think) what they will have left are the “fittest” survivors of their eugenics program, who will be educated such that they have education and opinions only as molded specifically to their place in society and support of its dogma.

• My buddy the unicorn decent republican would never support anything like that. They probably don’t. Most of the shitty ones probably don’t, either. First they will assist the rising dictatorship to destroy it all in the name of stomping out wokeness as above, then the rising dictatorship just has to remake it as desired. At that point it would be too late and their opinions won’t matter.

• Even Republican congresspeople wouldn’t let that happen. They’ll do what Putin and whatever other blackmail tells them too, and those that aren’t in someone’s black book get whipped into shape by Trump, who is clearly a puppet of Putin (at least.)

Mind you, I think we as a nation will not go so quietly into the night and we will stop them. But I truly believe there’s a group at the top who is intentionally driving us towards exactly what I have described. A future where we all slavishly manufacture the same products we then purchase with our meager wages designed to ensure we can survive well enough to buy crap but still line their pockets.

Also, you got any kids?

Oh, it will indeed.

Before now, I’d have trusted in historical precedent to save us, because Clinton, Dubya, Obama, Trump, and Biden all lost their hold on Congress at the mid-terms.

But this group of Democrats sucks to such an extent, and is collaborating and bootlicking so vulgarly, that it just might happen that Donald manages to keep Congress this time around.

But not until you’re born first. Otherwise you rob them of the pleasure.

Yes, they’re saying and doing terrible things, but can we please derail this into a discussion about how it’s all the Democrats’ fault for letting them do this?