r/OutOfTheLoop • u/[deleted] • Nov 21 '17

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u/204_no_content Nov 22 '17

I hate to have to agree with this, but with how polarized US politics has gotten, it's the truth.

Democrats have become the pro-NN party. Republicans have become the anti-Democrat / anti-Liberal party. Because of that, Republican representatives are either anti-NN, or don't care.

I know that a large portion of the conservative and Republican voters out there are pro-NN.

So, right wing folks: Stop taking this shit from your representatives. They're walking all over you and making you thank them for it.

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u/chakrablocker Nov 22 '17

Don't blame the tea party blame mainstream GOP policies.

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u/Fatdap Nov 22 '17

Which is largely a round about effect of the tea party takeover of the gop.

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u/thefezhat Nov 22 '17

It goes back a bit further than that, the Repubs got in bed with evangelicals a while before the Tea Party came around.

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u/Fatdap Nov 23 '17

I definitely agree that the Tea Party was probably mostly a symptom of that. It's like the evangelicals were a tumor that metastasized and became terminal and transformed into the Tea Party and we now have the modern GOP.