• itisileclerk@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    ELI5, If Republicans in general don’t want federal control, they want de-regulation, then why they are supporting federal control of California?

    • barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
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      Because the Republican Party of smaller government and lower taxes no longer exists. Now we have the MAGA Nazis, who are for lower taxes on the wealthy, higher taxes on the poor/working class, and an much larger, extremely oppressive authoritarian police state. California has a lot of money, and a lot of foreigners, and MAGA wants to control it all.

      As far as deregulation goes, that will go to the corporations that pay for it. Corps that play ball will get deregulation, corps that don’t play ball, will have their regulations tightened.

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      22 hours ago

      They want to use the government to attack their enemies.

      Like a switch, as soon as a Democrat is in office they will all be lying about wanting “small government.”

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      They are only against federal control when it’s them who are being controlled. They are fine with it happening to other people. It’s how they can claim to be pro freedom out of one side of their mouth and anti-freedom with the other. Laws for thee, none for me.

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        22 hours ago

        This is extremely important to understand. As fun as it is, we really need to move away from the gotchas. The right wing are not consistent because they do not have an ideology. They are simply reactionary.