In defense of a double standard.

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I support President Trump taking actions that I absolutely would be against were a progressive doing the same thing.

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Once genies are out of bottles they tend to not go back inside. Every time a norm is broken or a rule gets bent on one side, the other side will just use it to their advantage when they regain power.

Google Harry Reid and nuclear option to see a real life example

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True.

But if we keep waiting for the other side to do it first, we’re always going to be two steps behind.

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It has already become an endless cycle of reciprocity. It is not longer about the two different parties advancing basically a positive agenda but just in different ways, like they did some 30 years ago.

Now, it's just so polarized that you have this cyclical propensity of this perpetual tug-of-war pulling in opposite directions but still advancing in an overall negative direction every four years. Trump spent four years trying to reverse 8 years of damage that Obama did. Biden spent 4 years trying to erase anything Trump did. Trump is back, trying to erase what Biden did.

There's no progress. We're seeing perpetual political attrition. Let Trump's congress nuke the filibuster right now in exchange for a simple majority to pass the SAVE Act, and watch the Dims when they retake power. They'll repeal it. Then they'll add enough SCOTUS seats to override the "conservative majority" in adding six activists. They'll give DC and PR statehood and seats. They'd do everything they could to abolish the Electoral College. They'd unconstitionally redistrict everything under a SCOTUS that would favor it.

...and if conservatives somehow managed to wrest their power back and take charge again after that, they'd add 12 SCOTUS seats to retake the conservative majority, reverse everything they could, redistrict again, and the cycle continues. Pretty soon, after a few generations, the President and political parties are basically ineffectual, and everything is decided by hundreds of SCOTUS members. That's where we're headed.

The biggest problem here, is that i don't know how to stop any of this because, as said above, it really does look like "if we don't do it first, they're going to".

It's time to just balkanize. I think the overwhelming majority of us are done with the two-party system and the semantics, the polarization and the endless circle of negativity. They Democrat Party is garbage and the GOPe isn't any better. I grew up in the 80s and 90s when everyone was politically divided but still wanted what was actually best for America, just through different conduits. And everyone was proud to be American.

That's dead now, and I want to resuscitate it. We're on the cusp of collapse.

I understand all that, but this is shaping up to be the final battle. I don't mean that to be overly dramatic. But the goal should be for conservatives to take enough power now to guarantee the progressives never can gain access to that same power later.

Some things are too important to be left to be decided at the ballot box.

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Once genies are out of bottles they tend to not go back inside.

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Yeah. It’s really sad that Trump started all of this.

If a politicial party had unleashed 12-15 million illegal aliens illegally into America, while paying them all benefits illegally, for the purpose to game elections, I’d 100% support the opposing party doing everything within its legal means to reverse that action.

The Left is not telling people to protest the cleanup operation. They are blatantly telling them to obstruct and impede lawful actions of cleanup. That’s a crime too.

So because of bad media optics Republicans are suppose to ignore the illegal invasion of a sovereign Nation?

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If a democrat does something logical and good for Americans then I will say good job and hope they continue to do some good because I am for what is best for us. Now with that being said, they do not on the regular. But at the end of the day I am going to protest with my vote and trying to get others to vote with me.

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I wish I could say the same, but if a Dem does something I would otherwise agree with, I am against it, because I do not trust their motives or endgame.

This is a zero sum proposition. I do not want any Dem to have power, even if they occasionally do something I would normally agree with. Trump is a means to an end. He is there to do the dirty work so that we change the system enough that we never have to worry about progressive woke thought ever again in this country.

Dispatch of Federal Law Enforcement. I don’t care if they have to strong arm idiot law breakers. Clean it up any way possible

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Dispatch of Federal Law Enforcement. I don’t care if they have to strong arm idiot law breakers. Clean it up any way possible

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I agree with you completely. My point was that if a progressive dem president sent in the feds to deal with a problem he didn't care for in a conservative led state, I would loudly and actively oppose it and question whether he has the power......it is a double standard and I am ok with that.

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You are right. I want my side to win and I want the other side to be extinguished. I am for whatever it takes to have that happen, even things that I would not tolerate the other side doing when they are in power.

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Or more to the point you accept that the other side will do things that you don't like, hence you believe your side should meet fire with fire.

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Yes, there is …. it’s called assimilation…

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Exactly. The nail that sticks out of the board needs to be hammered down.