The right can’t pretend to be against big government then push through a huge over-reach like this. That is disingenuous. At least us affluent liberals are consistent in our messaging that we know better than everyone and we should use the government to do tell people how to live! /s
You really think that the GOP can rail about vaccine mandates because of bodily autonomy and medical choice while pushing an abortion ban in the same month? I mean, they can, but I'll call them out on it as fast as Biden begging OPEC to pump more oil at COP26.
You are trying to point out an inconsistency in the GOP propaganda that does not exist when seen through the lens of white supremacism.
The freedom and the bodily autonomy and the problem of government overreach in a world where the natural order of things is the rule of the white male are only concerns as far as they affect the freedom and the bodily autonomy and government action of white males. Using the full force of government, the law and vigilante activism against anyone who is not a white male is perfectly fine with them and logically consistent.
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Bottom line, once one looks at all that GOP propaganda as a Klan 2.0 strategy, which it is, and everything makes perfect sense with no inconsistencies whatsoever.
Obviously. I just fail to see why I should stop pointing it out, or encouraging my right leaning countrymen to cut it out and consider voting for a more ideologically pure party.
But you are pointing out something that appears to be hypocrisy but in reality is not.
An ideologically pure white supremacist party will tout the freedom and bodily autonomy of the white male and at the same time will promote government intervention, law enforcement and voter suppression as their rightly owned tools in the effort to lord it over the undeserving rest.
Today's GOP is acting very transparently as a white supremacist party and accusations of hypocrisy fall flat because they are not hypocritical about it at all.
It really is about criticizing the modern GOP by holding them to a standard they have long left behind and thereby keeping the lie alive that they are a normal party.
The actual reality is that the hypocritical state of accommodation with a system plagued with racist and misogynistic structures that affluent liberal elites have settled in, is under attack - and this is an existential threat to white supremacy.
It may sound odd to propose that something happening on the left could be of such great importance to the extreme right, but the truth is that racist and misogynistic structures have persisted under the decades long ascent of liberal economic and political power, thus ultimately perpetuating supremacist power structures.
This persistence was facilitated by the adoption of extreme meritocratic views among the liberal elites who could disguise their taking advantage of existing white supremacist power structures. This is where accusations of hypocrisy are valid.
In contrast, the new GOP aggressively follows a strategy of usurpation of power by a white supremacist organization which it is, without exhibiting any hypocrisy whatsoever.
Not to belabor the point any longer: Accusing the new GOP of hypocrisy by pointing out that goverment action is seen quite differently depending on who the recipient of such unwanted attention is, really is only possible by holding up the principles the old GOP puportedly was following. Now the old GOP was indeed hypocritical about such things, but the new GOP is not and is quite brazen about it.
To conclude, holding the new GOP to standards it no longer purports to possess and accusing it of hypocrisy obscures the true nature of the new GOP, and manages to reflect the, not unfounded, accusation of hypocrisy on the left, to the right. In an ironic twist, reflecting an accusation right back at the accuser is standard practice on the right - they are experts in that but that does not make it less stupid.
The new GOP should be criticised on the basis that they are a white supremacist organization that seeks to obtain power by overturning democratic processes now that white supremacist and misogynistic power structures, currently in large part under the influence of liberal affluent elites, are under threat.
The waning support, however tacit, for white supremacist structures and the emerging criticism of the meritocratic ideology that is common in the affluent left, puts the extreme right on red alert. This is what they mean when they talk about the Democrats being taken over by radicals, when all that is really happening is an erosion of support for historically determined white male power structures on the left.
That said, the new GOP is on edge because these seemingly internal developments on the left are truly existential threats to a white supremacist organization that relies on baked-in white supremacist power structures to further their interests.
This is what radicalizes them and leads them to see no other option than to seize power, by whatever means, in order to wrest control from the liberal elites before it is too late (and that is the apocalyptic twist in the story lending urgency to the quest). I cannot say that their analysis and their conclusions on what to do about preserving white male privilege are all wrong.
Notwithstanding all that, the liberal affluent elites have to come to terms with their complicity in maintaining white supremacist structures and with the role their ideology of meritocracy played and plays in how we have gotten to the point we are at now. I do not want to go into the meritocracy thing too far. Suffice it to say that meritocratic apologetics for existing inequities have a built-in disdain for the less fortunate by insinuating that there must be a lack of merit on the part of the unfortunate (here is where GOP ideology meets the liberals). The less fortunate of course experience such disdain as disrespect for their labors and will develop resentment, which in turn is the fuel populism runs on. But it is not just right populism that can run on such resentment...
So, we have a situation where major changes on the left are causing the right to experience an existential threat because the old white supremacist gentlemen´s agreement between right and left elites suddenly appears to have an expiration date.
That is what causes the devolution of the GOP into a personality cult willing to do away with democratic norms. It also allows to speculate in how far they are willing to go to thwart the threat.
