Republicans don't try to solve problems anymore. All they offer is fake outrage. [View all]

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Republicans don’t try to solve problems anymore. All they offer is fake outrage.
SUSAN J. DEMAS


Social media comes in many flavors. Facebook is about the life you want, Instagram is about the life you wish you could afford and X is about how much life sucks. ..... But the most bonkers site, hands down, is Nextdoor. It’s supposedly a way to connect with your neighbors, but it’s basically just a stream of nonsensical paranoia from folks you’d never want to wave to from your front porch.

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Because we can’t have nice things, even the most joyful events, like the Summer Olympics in Paris, get bogged down in divisive disinformation efforts. First, conservative influencers and politicians were incensed by the French being, well, French in the opulent, avant-garde opening ceremony they derided for being too LGBTQ+-friendly and mocking Christianity.

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Sometimes GOP officials go apoplectic over real issues while inventing their own reality (like your great-uncle’s Facebook posts). They claim the economy is in shambles (it’s not), crime is soaring (it’s not) or illegal immigrants do nothing but go on bloody crime sprees (they don’t).

It’s little wonder that Republicans rarely bother offering any policy solutions anymore — and when they do, like U.S. Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) did with a border security bill earlier this year, they take on friendly fire for doing their jobs, because that could hurt the GOP’s electoral chances. ...............(more)

https://michiganadvance.com/2024/08/11/republicans-dont-try-to-solve-problems-anymore-all-they-offer-is-fake-outrage/