So yeah, the "big beautiful bill" passed the house and the left is riling themselves up in a frenzy about how the house freedom caucus and tea party conservatives who care about the deficit and fiscal responsibility betrayed their principles by voting for this horrible bill.
*sigh*
Let me try to reframe this. They never had principles. While many voters have principles, the people in power do not. The republican party exists at the behest of big business. Modern conservatism is a sham ideology created to justify the will of this business class. What this business class wants is more for them and less for everything else. They want to pay no taxes. They dont want any regulations on them. They dont want unions. They dont want welfare. In their worldview, the end justifies the means.
When the right talks about economic freedom, they dont mean freedom for you. That's just the line they sell you to justify that stuff to you. Their right to work laws are about stripping workers of any power or bargaining rights that they have, and stripping the government of their power to regulate, so the businesses can do what they want. When they talk about personal responsibility, they're echoing the protestant work ethic and this idea that if you're not wealthy, it's your fault, git gud scrub. Work harder and make better decisions. But ya know what? They F the economy up? They get bail outs and loans that are then forgiven. When they talk about the national debt and the budget deficit, they're really talking about cutting welfare and social programs while giving tax cuts to the rich. They don't actually care about the deficit. Ronald Reagan tripled the national debt. Bush senior was at least honest in betraying his "no new taxes" pledge and he didn't last long. Bush Jr doubled it by getting us into unnecessary wars and cutting taxes on the rich. Trump raised the national debt in his first term with his tax cuts, and he did it again just now. This bill is more austerity for us, and more tax breaks for the wealthy. Oh, and let's not forget, like $40 billion or something for ICE, because of course the fascist would buff up his gestapo to round people up and put them in literal concentration camps. That's the priorities of this administration.
This has been all conservatism has been for the past hundred years. They opposed Theodore Roosevelt when he used the power for the people. They opposed the New Deal and spent decades working to roll it back. Reagan was their baby, and every administration since these guys scream about the national debt, but at the end of the day, they'll increase it while giving more giveaways for the ultra wealthy because that's what they care about. The end justifies their means. Conservative ideology is just a pretext to give stuff to rich people. They don't actually care about that stuff. The only people who care about it are the chumps who vote republican.
And yes, if you vote republican and you believe in this stuff, I'm calling you a chump. You are doing their bidding. You're their useful idiot. They love people like you. They love the uneducated. It's why they love religion. All the religious stuff is wedded with the party because it brainwashes people into authoritarianism and it makes them skeptical of educated people and becoming educated. They dont want people to go to college and get degrees. They love stupid and ignorant people. Because they vote for them and do their bidding.
I know that will ruffle some feathers as I'm being really insulting, but as an educated person, I just want the world to learn. It's why I do this blog. I want people to become educated. To understand logical fallacies. To understand that wealthy and powerful people use tools like religion and conservatism to brainwash the masses to do their bidding. Hell, that's why my blog is named what it's named. That is the nature of the cave. To believe in the illusory reality that THEY want you to believe in. I want you to to actually exercise well educated thought to be able to see through their lies.
Much like them, I'm very direct and to the point. The end justifies the means. The difference is, because I'm autistic AF, I dont like lying, or using false doctrines or dogmas as pretext. I could frame my views a lot better if I tried to do so in a way that meets a lot of people where they are ideologically. I could speak the language of the cave. But why would I? I want people to leave the cave. And in doing so, I understand that I gotta take on the cave and its logic head on. So I'm not gonna try to use ideas like fiscal conservatism to try to frame my ideas. I'm going to actually challenge those ideas. Because I want to create a new ideology with a new framing, and to be frank, why should you support my ideas? Because for about 80% of you, my ideas would actually HELP you. Everything in politics actually comes down to who benefits. Let's do more conflict theory, more realpolitik, and actually come up with ideas that benefit most Americans. UBI, it benefits people. Universal healthcare benefits people. Free college benefits people. More affordable housing benefits people. The entire system and its ideology is literally constructed to justify all kinds of injustices and inequalities. It exists to justify to the masses why they have so little, while others have so much. That is all. And that's why you shouldn't be surprised when they pass bills like this. And it's why you should wake up and start thinking like me.
Now, people may wonder where democrats fit into all of this. Well, they could be an agent for good, but I see them as controlled opposition. it's quite clear, after witnessing how they behave for the past decade, that they're feckless and useless. And they're so by design. They dont want people to wake up and advocate for real change. So they go on about how we need to be incremental, and focus on electability, and how we can't do anything, and blah blah blah. The right can do whatever they want. They can pass ghoulish bills like this and the party falls in line. Any time Biden tried to do even the tiniest amount of good for the people, you'd have sell outs like Joe Manchin sounding like republicans and going on about "entitlement societies." Why? Because they dont want you to have nice things. They exist at the behest of the billionaires too. They're just a lot softer about it. That's why before Trump went full fascist, I was basically fully on board with going third party. Now, Trump is dangerous on a level we havent seen in this country before, but we've seen how these types act in other countries. And uh....yeah. Regardless what issues I have with the dems, we gotta back them up to stop literal fascism from taking root. Because if that happens we lose any and all hope of ever changing this place for the better. We lost. Forever. So...as cringey as dems are, we gotta tolerate them for now or we're gonna descend into something far darker than what we currently have.
But yeah. I guess I'm just writing this to say that, no, we shouldnt be surprised of this behavior from the republicans. To be a republican in 2025, you must truly be devoid of principles, and you must use raw power to achieve your ends. The end justifies the means. They dont care about fiscal responsibility, or freedom, and blah blah blah. Any arguments they use to that effect are dishonest, and will be discarded as convenient. At the end of the day, these guys see society as their playground, us as their servants, and they lobby to ensure that society works for them, and not for us. We shouldnt be surprised by ANYTHING they do. The mask is slipping, it has been for a while. You best start believing in cyberpunk dystopias, because you're in one.
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