It is important to understand that there are at least 3 kinds of "Republican" in the United States.
There are "Old guard" republicans, which aside from having some somewhat dodgy business models, and being all about getting and staying super fucking rich, aren't really that onerous.
There are "NeoCon" republicans, which are the worst kind of republican, in terms of fiscal policy...
and there are the "Qtard/Religious whacko/Chemtrails/xenophobic/Transphobic/Homophobic" republicans (which are can be comorbid with the first two, but usually are their own kind and breed, that just latch on to the GOP because the GOP courts their votes, because of how horribly unpopular their actual core tenets are, and how alarmingly prevalent the batshit craycray is) who are Always Afraid, Always Oppressed, and STRONGLY BELIEVING (at the expense of EVERYTHING else).
It is important to stress that the core tenets of the republican party are **NOT** religious. They are quite succinctly summed up with "If you are rich, we want you to stay rich-- you are our people, and we will butter your bread. All those poors can go get fucked. In fact, we will HELP you fuck them, both figuratively and literally."
They simply court and exploit the religious nutball demographic, asserting that they represent their interests. In reality, the policy decisions implemented are ones selected for the intersection of three criteria:
1) It will anger/disenfranchise the democrats
2) It will allow rich fuckers to get away with bigger, more obscene abuses of the public at large.
3) It strokes the strongly believing but poorly educated in just the right way, to make them bend over and take the above two things, and feel "represented" doing it.
Consider what the actual consequences/fallout of overturning Roe vs Wade means, in terms of women's autonomy. It will anger/disempower democrats. It will enable rich fucks to get away with obscene shit like they did in the 50s, and it strokes the "Belief!!" button of the strongly believing but poorly educated, in just the right way to get them to gung-ho support the measure.
Basically everything the current crop of GOP leadership has been up to meets up with that pattern.
I would conjecture that the "Oppression Narrative" that the strongly believing demographic has, has created a mindset that cannot conceive of a world where they are not oppressed. As such, the baked in oppression that the GOP promotes to its wealthy backers is not seen as the oppression that it is-- it is seen as "normal" and "expected." It is the lack of oppression, in contravention of the oppression narrative, that they cannot comprehend or deal with-- and they invent phantasms to fill that void. (Q-Anon conspiracy, Chemtrails, et al.)
I would suggest that as a step toward the right direction, we emphasize the actual oppression that takes place, shut down the clearly purposeful and orchestrated misinformation campaigns that promote and sustain the "Oppression Narrative" in the country (That includes the fearmongering conservative preachers! There is nothing wrong with church sermons, but there is everything wrong with fearmongering "You are oppressed by the EVIL DEMOCRATS" ones, which are ALREADY illegal, just not enforced.).
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