• octopus_ink@lemmy.ml
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    It’s like these people (edit- republican voters) have never read a book in their lives.

    By about age 12 I had a reasonable grasp of our nation’s checks and balances, a cornerstone of our democracy.

    At a minimum you’d think a rabid conservative fanbase that claims to love the constitution would be aware of this, and possibly expect the politicians they voted for to uphold such core principles.

    That would require Republicans and US Conservatives to have actual ethics and principles beyond making sure they create the most unwelcoming world possible for anyone not white, straight, male, cis, and Christian.

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      It’s like these people have never read a book in their lives.

      JD Vance has a law degree from Yale.

      https://www.politico.com/blogs/new-hampshire-primary-2016-live-updates/2016/02/republican-debate-marco-rubio-obama-knows-what-hes-doing-218877

      "Let’s dispel with this fiction that Barack Obama JD Vance doesn’t know what he’s doing,” the Florida senator I said. “He knows exactly what he’s doing. He’s trying to change this country.”

      Thanks for letting me crib you, Marco Rubio, you fucking buffon, because yeah. JD Vance literally has a degree in this field so he knows unequivocally what the truth actually is. He knows exactly what he’s doing.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JD_Vance#Early_life,_military_service,_and_education

      Vance then attended Yale Law School, where he was a member of The Yale Law Journal

      as Vance was about to graduate from Yale with a Juris Doctor degree.

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        I’m not surprised Vance knows what he’s doing.

        I’m surprised the people who voted for him don’t, especially given how often I see a Trump sticker paired with a “We the People” window tint.

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            Unfortunately, simply reading the constitution without any knowledge of how to parse legal language or any background knowledge about major Supreme Court decisions will leave the average person more confused than informed.

            So I don’t doubt that people read it, but there is a reason that law school isn’t simply reciting the constitution.

            While the average voter may be ignorant… JD Vance absolutely knows better, he doesn’t get to hide behind claims of ignorance or confusion.

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      Just like the Bible, they love the idea of the Constitution, but they haven’t actually read it.

      They have someone else interpret it for them, so they don’t have to think.

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        Or better yet, use the parts they like to forward their agenda and casually disregard/forget the parts they don’t like. It’s a buffet of rules for thee but not for me.

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      At a minimum you’d think a rabid conservative fanbase that claims to love the constitution would be aware of this

      Conservatives who say they love the Constitution are a bit like Prosperity Gospel preachers who say they love the Bible.

      They don’t see this statement as an expression of ideology. They see it as a psychological hack to disarm their audience.

      That would require Republicans and US Conservatives to have actual ethics and principles

      The idea of a politician with principles used to be the punchline to a sitcom comedy routine or the climax of a utopian drama.

      It’s dizzying to see people blindly trust what has always been a pool of con artists and hustlers, both along conservatives (who doge-edly insist Trump is the Real Deal) and liberals (who keep screaming “hypocrite!” at a party that flaunts its hypocrisy)

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        The idea of a politician with principles used to be the punchline to a sitcom comedy routine or the climax of a utopian drama.

        I’m talking primarily about the voters, which it’s becoming increasingly clear I need to specify.

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      Oh, they know exactly what they’re doing. They are attempting (and apparently succeeding) to bulldoze their way through an administrative coup.