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  They don’t like the government doing anything. Including regulating the industries and corporations that are constantly, consistently, and increasingly fucking Over regular everyday Americans in the middle lower classes. 
  I’m dumbfounded by conservatives who support the gop and make less the 400k a year. 
  They would rather have their guns and oppress minorities then be able to live comfortably financially. 
  I’m beyond livid at the way we are being fucked over financially with inflation. I have continuously moved up in my career and pay scale yet I can never really get ahead and neither can these conservatives but they are blind to the fact that the GOP wants to keep it that way.
context: They never did want to govern. 
  Look at the last decade. Nothing Republicans have done in that time frame (and possible even further back) shows to anyone that they actually care about anything other than tax cuts for the wealthy. >
  
  Hey, that's not fair.
  They also really care about putting unqualified religious lunatics on the courts. >
  
  They don't want to govern, they want to rule =/ >
  
  This is kinda true. They want to be king, but then if they become king they want to establish that the only rule is there are no rules, unless you’re poor, they want a lot of rules for the lower class >
  
  As of Jan 1st, Missouri's GOP legislature has criminalized homelessness. Punishable by 15 days in jail and/or $750 fine. It's now a crime to be poor in the state of Missouri. >
  
  Which would be funny if it wasn’t so cruel and horrible. Homeless folks are going to get a lot of free heat and meals on taxpayers dimes through the prison system now. >
  
  That's what I was thinking too. They're just turning prisons and jails into homeless shelters. Dumbest damn shit that no one would vote for. Good thing their base is deaf and blind. >
  
  It's not dumb. They're doing it on purpose. They use prison labor to make and build and assemble and fix things that is cheaper because they don't have to pay more than like 60 cents an hour. >
  
  About 20 here in NC. Maybe less other places >
  
  Yeah but they didn’t elect them to govern. They elected them to “own the libs”. 
  I really don’t think the average republican gives a shit about governance. >
  
  Literally one of the main tenants of evangelicalism is that this life doesn't matter, is only a test, and our real reward awaits after we die.
  So why would you care about the environment or the cost of healthcare in this world when it literally doesn't matter? >
  
  The irony of that is I think passing the test would require not being a shitty person, loving your neighbor, and protecting the home god supposedly created for them. If what they believe turns out to be real, I think they’re in for a surprise. >
  
  Evangelicalism gets around this by proclaiming that people are so inherently bad and sinful that any good actions you perform cannot outweigh your sinfulness. Therefore, it's a waste to even try. And any call to do good by anyone, whether Christian or otherwise, is immediately rebutted with this kind of argument. >
  
  Wow so evangelicalism is basically nihilism...but mean? >
  
  Kind of. Within evangelicalism, the only surefire thing is to have faith in Jesus as the Messiah, as only through believing in him can one be saved from sin and eternal damnation. They took Protestantism's "saved by grace alone through faith alone" to the logical extreme. 
  But to evangelicals, any good or beneficial actions made on this plane of existence don't score you any good points for the afterlife. All that matters is trying to evangelize (read: push their religion onto) as many people as possible. >
  
  If you didn’t know by now the GOP is a circus and the only thing they stand for is their clown car. >
  
  Meanwhile their followers are charging after the clown car thinking its filled with drag performers. >
  
  And complaining that it's an electric car >
  
  Yet somehow being Musk stans. >
  
  They couldn't exist without hypocracy. >
  
  The problem is, the average GOP voter doesn't want any governing to be done either. They don't like the government, and don't want it to do things. So seeing an "entertaining" but unproductive shit show is exactly what they want to see. 
  This is another instance where what we're seeing isn't the problem, it is a symptom of the problem.