• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    “And aren’t we team Republican?

    And therein lies the problem with modern politics. They think everything is just team sports. It’s a game to them.

    They’ve completely lost touch with the fact that they are there to serve the public, not the other way around.

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      8 months ago

      Ronna McDaniel said the quiet part out loud on NBC

      “Her choice and her decision was, ‘I’m going to put my own views secondary to the views of the larger party,’” said David Urban, a former senior Trump campaign adviser who has his own contributor contract at CNN. “I’ve seen people that say, ‘Oh, your job is to represent America, not represent your party. That’s not necessarily true. She’s in large part a spokesperson for the party and the figurehead for the party. If that’s where the party is or was at the time, then that’s that.”

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      8 months ago

      They are there to serve their corporate donors while speaking to give the illusion that they care about their voters.

      The system is working as intended by modern politicians. Thanks to Citizens United making corruption legal.

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      But they aren’t there to serve the public.

      Republicans believe that you elect them to do what they want not what you want.

      That’s the definition of a Republican.