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Politics
Chauncey DeVega

Speaker McCarthy: That's no joke, folks

Today's Republican Party and "conservative" movement are agents of corrupt power and enemies of democracy. Their evident goal is to take away the civil and human rights of Black and brown people as well as women, LGBTQ people, people with disabilities, poor people, Muslims, nonwhite immigrants and perceived political enemies. At the same time, of course, they are eager to gut what remains of the social safety net and give corporations and the ultra-rich unrestrained power and control over American society.

Their idealized dystopian America will be a "democracy" in name only. In reality, it will be an apartheid pseudo-Christian plutocracy somewhat modeled on Putin's Russia or Viktor Orbán's Hungary, in which political dissent is not allowed and the rules of political combat will be rigged such that Republicans and their allies can remain in power indefinitely.

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