Republican values and principles; enduring human nature.<\/p>\n
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Politico: How \u2018Owning the Libs\u2019 Became the GOP\u2019s Core Belief<\/a>, subtitled, “The weird journey of a tongue-in-cheek catchphrase from conservative-mocking putdown to the defining tenet of the Republican Party\u2019s way of life.”<\/p>\n \nGamers borrowed the term from the nascent world of 1990s computer hacking, using it to describe their conquered opponents: \u201cowned.\u201d To \u201cown the libs\u201d does not require victory so much as a commitment to infuriating, flummoxing or otherwise distressing liberals with one\u2019s awesomely uncompromising conservatism. And its pop-cultural roots and clipped snarkiness are perfectly aligned with a party that sees pouring fuel on the culture wars\u2019 fire as its best shot at surviving an era of Democratic control.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n And last Sunday’s Doonsbury, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n A man walks up to a voter registration clerk, unsure which party to register for. The clerk asks him to describe himself. He says:<\/p>\n \nWell, I’m a small business owner, or I was. The pandemic’s bankrupted me, I’ve no health insurance and can’t make the mortgage payments on a house with no power that just got flooded again — thank you, climate change! I’d like to start over but I *still* have a massive student loan debt.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Clerk: So what do you think the primary role of government should be? (This is ironic, of course, because all of the man’s problems are those the Democrats want to address. But I have to say this because many Republicans\/conservatives are blind to anything except tribalism.)<\/p>\n This aligns with the evidence of history that in 2020 the Republican Party announced no updated “platform” of goals and principles, that all\/both parties have virtually always done every four years.<\/p>\n Washington Post: The Republican Party announces that it stands for nothing<\/a>.<\/p>\n It stood only to support T****, like a cult would.<\/p>\n
\nMan: Owning the libs.
\nClerk: You’re a Republican.<\/p>\n