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The sad thing here is that the GOP has seemingly given up all pretense of doing anything for the people. This term in Congress will probably be looked back upon as both a disaster for the country and a generational boon to the GOP in terms of setting themselves up for political donations for many years to come.

This is all made possible by an increasingly desperate and increasingly irrelevant white "Christian" movement that seems to have completely bought into the ends justifying the means to the point of electing a pedophile over a Democrat (Alabama).

Interestingly this actually seems to be right out of Vladimir Putin's political playbook. Putin's stranglehold on power was and is made possibly by him placating a politically active conservative movement within Russia that also feared sliding into irrelevance and that their beliefs and way of life were under attack by what they perceived to be an increasingly hostile and militant progressive class.

This simply won't change while the vast majority of people will vote for their particular party no matter what. And that goes both ways.




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