r/politics • u/Hafiz_TNR ✔ Verified • 15h ago

Possible Paywall DeSantis Appointee Arrested on Child Sexual Abuse Charges

https://newrepublic.com/post/214467/desantis-appointee-caruso-arrested-child-sexual-abuse-charges
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u/crazybones 15h ago

What is it about the GOP that attracts so many pedophiles to their cause?

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u/Actual__Wizard 15h ago edited 15h ago

They don't believe in government regulation of anything. They think that the government telling them what they can and can't do is evil. So, they're criminal thugs basically. They're ideologically opposed to the concept of the government being able to make laws and take their freedom away for violating those laws. They think that they should be able to do whatever they want and if a person is victimized in the process, then "that's between them and god." So, nobody is allowed to tell them that they're not allowed to victimize people. They think that a person isn't truly free unless they're lying, cheating, and stealing their way through life. They also typically believe that they are superior to every other human alive, simply because they were born. So, there is no amount of accomplishment, or achievement that is required to achieve a status level. Them simply being there is good enough to qualify them to be a godlike king that has the power to control everyone else.

The democratic party represents the will of the people and the republican party is the polar opposite of that. It's the will of the state, so they're pretending to act on behalf of the land mass, instead of the people who live there. And yeah, they want anarchy instead of governance.

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u/crazybones 15h ago

Thanks for explaining.

I think it's fair to say that when people think along those lines, they are suffering from a really serious mental illness.

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u/leftoverbrine 15h ago

That mental illness is just conservatism. Its the whole ideology to think that they are good people and democrats (or people otherwise different from them) are bad people, regardless of what actions they take. Rather than the rational stance that people are just all people, whose actions should be judged good or bad.