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The corporate party vs everyday people
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this post was submitted on 08 Sep 2026
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There’s a thousand criticisms of US politics I agree with, that make sense; but the one thing that has never made sense to me is why the Republican Party exists.
It’s a horrendous monster with no visible redeeming values. The Democrats can live off “We will fight the monster!” and be opportunistic scumbags, but no explanation given for why that monster exists.
As long as even some of the democrats build up a platform of fighting that monster, and have to pretend to do it, then it’s better than those monsters actually being in charge. I’m not a fan of handwaving the “hard fact” that group still continues to exist as a pure enemy of American success through today’s age, and it turns almost anything else into a lesser evil.
Mostly gerrymandering/voter suppression/corruption (they’re all the same thing, to me). The Republicans are always accusing Democrats of influencing elections, because they know how easy it is.
You can look it up yourself pretty easily: there are about 1.5x as many people who reliably vote Democratic as there are people who reliably vote Republican. The only reason Republicans ever win anything is because of baldfaced voter suppression.
The part that makes even less sense is that majority of Americans support that monster party, even after it got significantly more monstrous (maggot movement)
Republican as a party has existed for basically the same amount of time the US has. It doesn't really have it's own goals.
The problem is just that poor people's voices are actively suppressed in favor of the dollar