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First!
I will always vote Republican. I always have.
It is EXACTLY this type of thinking that keeps the Republican Party alive.
And she still doesn’t get it that’s what the republican party is as a whole.
I read this via Pro Publica earlier this morning. Glad to see someone at TPM saw it, too.
(and @musgrove, too)
I’d love to sit down with Marge over a cup of coffee and invite her to consider the long-term effects of her continuing to vote Republican. I’ll bet money she’s religious, and I’d also remind her that ‘You will know them by their fruits: do men gather grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles?’
If she would think about the works of the current version of the GOP she would understand that they don’t merit her vote.
I wouldn’t tell her, “You have to vote Democratic.” But I would tell her, “You have to investigate the candidates. Don’t give your vote to someone who wants to take the vote away from other people: you are one of those other people they are targeting.”
It would take a lot of deprogramming for her to be able to look at things rationally.
Yes, it would. But it has to start somewhere and it sounds like she’s a few steps down the road already.
And it is exactly the type of thinking throughout the party operatives that will kill the party in less than a generation.
Good riddance.
“Almost” doing an interesting bit o’work, there.
It’s almost as if there were a pattern of the sun rising on the eastern side of the horizon, every day.
‘Marge Bostelmann Figures It Out’.
Millions of gop marges are ruminatin’, some get it.
Gonna take a while.
Such is ‘The Strange Epistemic Journey of an American Republican in 2023’.
“I’m a Republican who stands up for the truth and not for a lie,” Bostelmann said.
So, clearly not a Republican. The Republicans clearly don’t think she’s a Republican, either. Maybe she should take a hint? Ha ha ha. Nope, a clue-by-four up the side of the head wouldn’t get through to her.
Oh, so the mob at Lot’s door has turned on one of its participants who has voiced reservations about the entire thing they’re doing? How very, very odd.
It’s very hard for people to walk away from previous convictions, even when confronted with the truth. It’s just too hard to admit you were wrong, especially if you have invested years or decades in a belief.
I hope this woman wakes up the rest of the way. And that a few others wake up because of her horrible mistreatment.
Bostelmann, a Wisconsin elections commissioner, said she voted for Donald Trump in 2020 and added: “I will always vote Republican.
At 70, I think it’s too late for her to wake up. Vote for short-sighted intolerance for 50 years, and some day, it might affect you.
These hysterias we Americans bring down on ourselves so regularly always devolve into bullying.
Decades of well-financed Fear & Hate campaigns have groomed the bullies for the depredations that wound and haunt our communities.
The GOP invited in their own bullies.
That’s fatal. Not today. Not tomorrow.
But some day, sooner than we think, the Republican Party will disappear.
Racism, hate, ignorance and stupidity are ever with us, we’re human.
But the GOP is fatally diseased. When it does go, it’ll be sudden.
Maybe it is. Maybe it isn’t. I hope it isn’t: I’d rather not wait for her death to correct her voting patterns.
My brother told me this story of some election or another. It happened after our parents were in their 80s and had stopped going to the polls. He and his wife had been voting by mail for a long time. Our parents handed him their return mail envelopes with their ballots and asked him to drop them off at the post office. When he got to the post office, he asked my sister-in-law, “Well, should I go cancel out our votes?” (He did mail the ballots.)
“I will always vote Republican. I always have.”
“My daddy drove a Ford, my grand daddy drove a Ford … I’ll always drive a Ford”
“Always back Alabama … poison Auburn’s trees!”
Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds!
I think she may be going through that now.
