ZeroCool@feddit.ch to Politics@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agoSen. John Kennedy reads sexually explicit passages to justify anti-LGBTQ+ book banswww.lgbtqnation.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up128 cross-posted to: politics@lemmy.world
arrow-up128external-linkSen. John Kennedy reads sexually explicit passages to justify anti-LGBTQ+ book banswww.lgbtqnation.comZeroCool@feddit.ch to Politics@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square4fedilink cross-posted to: politics@lemmy.world
minus-squareZeroCool@feddit.chOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year agoYeah, if you want to be a career republican politician in the south the standard strategy appears to be pandering to the yokels in the base in the most frustratingly transparent manner possible.
minus-squareGormadtlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-21 year agoAnd if it’s transparent it makes you even more popular because you just claim that it’s all lies from your political opponents It’s not like your base is going to fact check you, especially with all the anti-education talking points they’ve been spouting
Yeah, if you want to be a career republican politician in the south the standard strategy appears to be pandering to the yokels in the base in the most frustratingly transparent manner possible.
And if it’s transparent it makes you even more popular because you just claim that it’s all lies from your political opponents
It’s not like your base is going to fact check you, especially with all the anti-education talking points they’ve been spouting