r/politics • u/croato87 • 4d ago

America Lost the First Biden-Trump Debate Soft Paywall

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/america-lost-first-biden-trump-debate-1235048539/
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u/QanonQuinoa 4d ago

If yall don’t think marriage equality is going back to the states next, you’re not paying attention.

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u/Icy-Cod1405 4d ago

That is the least of our worries tbh. Culture war has always been a distraction. They are effectively ending federal regulation en mass and trowing it to the lower extremely conservative courts. Education, SEC, IRS, medicare, the ACA every single government program and agency is affected by this. Within months the government will be unable to function.

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u/professorwormb0g 4d ago

I hate to say it but I agree. Not that I think marriage equality isn't a huge issue and that I would hate to see LGBT people lose their right to marry in red states. But the fabric of America isn't held together by gay marriage. Project 2025 aims to fire the entire civil service arm of the federal government and replace it with Trump loyalist. They want to decrease the size of the bureaucracy so much and then outsource its functions to private corporations. This will be absolutely devastating to every American and it's not like you can escape your state to avoid it like you could with abortion and gay marriage.

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u/thelingeringlead 4d ago

Not even trump loyalists, just loyalists to the cause. This didn't start wti htrump and it doesn't end with trump. Trump is the match meant to light the fuse and break down the walls so they can act on all the movements they've been making since the 60's. This has been the plan of the far right and christian conservative groups since the southern strategy was employed. Literally all over the country, but especially the midwest, the Quiverfull movement has been raising litters of children to raise in home school and send off to different centers. They go to learn about civil servitude and political office effecting policy, helping create a white christian fundamentalist nation. They're not even shy about it. The heritage foundation is an steady evolution of the same groups that are still mad about the civil war.

Trump wouldn't survive in the morally driven society they want to dominate over, and he and his buddies think they're smart enough to be bedfellows with this group to get what they want so they can strip the country bare and live in even more oppulence. The Hertiage foundation is looking very long term, while trump and his cronies are a short term means to an end.