Deliberate policy choices or sheer stupidity? Embrace the power of "and".`Updated: what I said

There’s the smaller group that has been working for literally the past century to transform America into a nation of dependants, and then the huge number of dupes who willingly suspend their own power of reason in exchange for illusory promises of security and abundance. Bad combination.

The Old South was misgoverned by Democrats for 150 years and within 2 decades of Republican governance it is now the economic engine of America. New England used to be Republican and prospered, but now it is becoming an economic backwater. California was the land of milk and…

— SnerdlyCornPop (@SnerdlyP) June 19, 2026

UPATE:

This is a problem many on the Right don't want to accept

The Left is no longer "just like us they just want to have more welfare"

The left is abandoning Capitalism, Christianity and all of the values we used to hold as a Country,(and the right still does)

This isn't a… https://t.co/OkatGKnANe pic.twitter.com/LGR6Crs8aS

— Jason Robertson (@JRobFromMN) June 20, 2026

And for a double dose of stupidity …

Do you genuinely believe “co-existing and co-operating within a shared commons” is the “natural order”? Because that is totally ahistorical and insane. Slavery and constant warfare are the natural order without rule of law and markets.

— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) June 21, 2026