It's all one power structure.

If you attack a party for something well in advance of an election, it loses its effectiveness before election day. People get desensitized to the message and it no longer impacts their decision to vote or who to vote for. If you noticed during the last election, different promises were made at different times. They waited to promise full legalization of cannabis until the last minute for a reason. There are also alignments of promises or points emphasized during primaries based on which state primary or primaries are up next.

Because they are complicit. The two parties are not the same, they differ on a few dozen topics, of which the public is acutely aware. For the other 1,000,000+ issues, they are either in agreement or are complicit in Republican ideology.

Would clash with the "Donald Trump wants to fuck your children." ads.

Because the frontal attack just reinforces his position. The right wing populist playbook is all about the victim complex and it has some known bugs in human "rationality" helping out as well.

Fuck marry kill should not be a pick two of three

they are too busy worrying to not offend both houses why MITCH MCCONNEL isnt replaced. beshear is pratically acting like tim walz, non-confrontational approach, dont rabble rouse. while when the gop does it, they can go scorched earth all they want.

The numerous measles outbreaks and thousands of infected children are doing most of the having lifting already. No need to spend money on what local and national news are already spreading for free.

The Democrats have bigger fish to fry – – mostly, making sure to get enough voters to the polls to make sure we win the midterms and issues such as the war in Iran and general affordability issues, not to mention Epstein.

They are controlled opposition. Their only function is to pacify the left and make sure no actual lefties make it out of primaries. They answer to the ruling class same as Republicans.

The Republicans (Midas Touch) probably is.

Democrats are almost entirely pussies and even in many cases complicit.

what for? Magatards will keep voting Republican and the rest is either not listening or will vote Democrat and silently hope for the best

I have lived in the bible belt all my life, still trying to escape. People are proud of their beliefs even though they aren't true. "Everyone is entitled to their beliefs" is the common sentiment, but it's wrong. Everyone is morally obligated to align their beliefs with reality as closely as they can.

That's where science comes in. It is not an authority, not a religion, not a system. It is a process we use to acquire and refine knowledge. Given the physical limitations of our senses and minds, it is the best we can do.

People need to learn before we all die of stupid.

You gotta understand the US' version of democracy hasn't functioned properly in decades. I don't know what all happened; seems like a culmination of things.

I mean, "the people" didn’t promote him to the head of the GOP presidential lineup. When he did something disrespectful and disgusting, he wasn't dismissed by his party. He just assumed control. His words were repeated and analyzed by every news station as if he had merit. His wasn't a grassroots movement, it was plotted & paid for by who knows (I'm assuming corporations & foreigners powers).

Not to mention his uproar over voting machines during Biden's entire term - I struggle to believe the same fascists pushing & investigating these machines & corporations for years prior to the election actually won said election.

"Stark raving mad"? Maybe. "Delusional"? Also maybe. But I think more than anything the population is the victim of a broken government.

Anti-vaxx stuff used to be on the fringes - once the stupidest people took over the Republican party anti-science sentiment in general came with them. Because they're stupid.

Is the human brain rigged for insanity?

We are monkeys wearing clothes. Yes.

Not for Trump, he just thinks hard enough and that's how it is. No really, as far as I read that's how he treats life, you think hard enough and make sure you have groveling sycophants tell you that how everything is just like your delusions and live in a fantasy world where your hands don't look like they belong on a 10 year old.

Well technically I think it was some positive thinking attitude type mindset so even if it doesn't match reality it happens. What a load of baloney, unless you start with half a billion dollars on the game of life then you're rich enough to pretend whatever you like. Somehow this dude made least 1/3 of the US think that's okay, good job on electing people to defend education and critical thinking.

Why would he be against vaccines now?

While I don't have the answer, it isn't anything new and predates the pandemic: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/09/17/fact-check-republicans-run-afoul-of-medical-thinking-with-autism-assertions/

Yeah that book is crucial to understanding how he'll act in any situation

Cruelty, misery, exercising power to inflict suffering.

Because the Evangelicals with money keep asking for this, and he can't deliver.

Trump just wants manufactured evidence