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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I think its more republicans point their fingers and say "these immigrants and woke people are responsible for your problems, so we need a giant fascist prison camp system to fix it" knowing full well it will make things worse.

Many democrat politicians do this thing where they try to make the answer as obtuse as possible to deflect their donors from blame so they mostly just sound like Nancy Pelosi when she said something like "the problems are very bad but their causes are very good", the causes there being corporate donors that largely prefer republicans but also fund democrats to a lesser extent.

Republicans are willing to point their fingers at people and blame them for people's woes which at least suggests a solution, even if its a full lie where they're just blaming the victims or full absurdity like Elon Musk blaming George Soros for things (a guy who has like 2% of elon's wealth and his political spending in politics is dwarfed by elon's buyout of twitter alone)