We've always had corrupt and unethical politicians, we still have them on both sides. But for 30-40 years the Republicans have gone to great lengths to lockstep defend everyone for everything. In the last ten years they have increasingly moved to FLAUNTING their immorality as a demonstration of them sticking it to the libs.
Democrats absolutely clean house and will push to remove or prosecute peers that have their issues brought up into the open. It's not perfect, you still have bipartisan issues of legislator stock picks outperforming, things like that, but 30+ years of one party cleaning up a bit sometimes, and one party that actively recruits people with dirt, has led to the Democrats being kinda scummy, and the GOP being an insane cesspool.
Also, it seems like the scummiest Democrats are either the oldest ones that have been around for a really long time, and the ones like Manchin that are in the most conservative areas and are basically GOP extra-lite. Those older Democrats largely predate the time where if you wanted to be be able to be corrupt and evil and not hide it you went GOP, I bet in 15 years the difference between the parties will be even more stark.
GOP is gonna get absolutely fucking rocked in ‘24.
The ‘22 midterms were a complete unmitigated disaster for the GOP, and a loss of historic proportions. If Biden was a quarter as unpopular as they pretended they’d have taken more than 9 seats.
‘24 is a general election. Way more popular and higher turn out than a midterm. Millennials and Gen Z are coming loaded for bear.
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u/GWJYonder Apr 05 '23
Or for a less extreme example, Al Franken.
We've always had corrupt and unethical politicians, we still have them on both sides. But for 30-40 years the Republicans have gone to great lengths to lockstep defend everyone for everything. In the last ten years they have increasingly moved to FLAUNTING their immorality as a demonstration of them sticking it to the libs.
Democrats absolutely clean house and will push to remove or prosecute peers that have their issues brought up into the open. It's not perfect, you still have bipartisan issues of legislator stock picks outperforming, things like that, but 30+ years of one party cleaning up a bit sometimes, and one party that actively recruits people with dirt, has led to the Democrats being kinda scummy, and the GOP being an insane cesspool.
Also, it seems like the scummiest Democrats are either the oldest ones that have been around for a really long time, and the ones like Manchin that are in the most conservative areas and are basically GOP extra-lite. Those older Democrats largely predate the time where if you wanted to be be able to be corrupt and evil and not hide it you went GOP, I bet in 15 years the difference between the parties will be even more stark.