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Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by Maursault on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @06:25PM (#32655934)
Republicans have long said any government is bad. They want Big Business to be unrestrained, unregulated, pure democracy, at the expense of individual civil rights. I can't tell the difference between Republicans and anarchists, other than the sad fact that nearly all Republicans vote adversely to their personal economic interests to stifle economic opportunity, in order to keep the very richest the very richest, for that one future day when they are the richest of the richest. It makes no sense, because that day will never come because they are voting to stifle their own personal economic advancement for the sake of issues skew to economics, such as abortion and 2nd Amendment issues. Really... if you earn less than $325K/year, as nearly all Republicans do, it is insane to keep voting that way. If everyone always ignored all other issues, and voted solely in their personal economic interests, we'd never see another Republican elected until nearly everyone was rich.
Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by MichaelCollins on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @06:37PM (#32656044)
> Republicans have long said any government is bad.

Most republicans are not anarcho-libertarians. Asserting that any government is bad is fringe even among libertarians, and most republicans aren't even libertarians.

Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by hotpotamus on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @06:43PM (#32656103)
> “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.'"

-Ronald Reagan

Perhaps you know that Reagan didn't really mean it, but it seems like many people believed him anyway.

Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by MichaelCollins on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @06:45PM (#32656130)
> Perhaps you know that Reagan didn't really mean it

I think you surely know it too, Reagan was all too eager to use government power and his supporters were happy to see him do it.

Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by hotpotamus on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @07:03PM (#32656306)
Reagan was sufficiently before my time that I have very limited opinions on what he actually wanted, though I would certainly tend to agree with that. I have no idea what modern Republicans actually want or believe. Obviously their elite class wants power above all, but the rank and file never seem to get much other than grievance.
Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by inferiorhuman on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @07:06PM (#32656335)
"I'm not in favor of abolishing the government. I just want to shrink it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub." – Grover Norquist
Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by hotpotamus on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @07:43PM (#32656590)
It's really strange to me that there was a decade where every Republican had to pledge allegiance to this guy (which ended when he married a Muslim woman).
Re:Mikhail Gorbachev has died by selimthegrim on Friday September 02, 2022 @12:42PM (#32692867)
Doesn’t seem to have hurt Wolfowitz much (well, he didn’t marry but still).