What's so important to GOP that they'd throw their country under the bus to achieve their agenda?

[Amaryllis]

I just read this is a Slate article:
If nothing else, Republican behavior—the extent to which the party is still powering through a hyper-partisan agenda, even as evidence of something untoward mounts—is an implicit statement that foreign interference is an acceptable path to partisan gain. At the risk of cliché, it normalizes outside meddling in American democracy. And the 2016 election won’t even be the end of Russian interference in our elections. There is real potential for further, more damaging hacking aimed at often-obsolete local election infrastructure. Preventing this is of national concern and requires cooperation from both sides at all levels of government. It requires both parties to show a commitment to the ideals of American democracy.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/07/republicans_are_downplaying_russia_at_great_risk.html?wpsrc=newsletter_tis&sid=589dfd6ebcb59c58118b45d5

So when I read the above, I asked myself, what could be so important to them that they were willing to go this route in the first place, and for those who are not complicit, to keep making excuses? Just what is it they hope to gain? More money? More power?

I guess I am falling for the trap I so often warn people about: they live in a parallel universe and it doesn't work to apply my values and my logic to their universe because all the rules and all the values are different there.

[klook]

1. Benjamins.

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[DeeDeeNY]

6. Ding ding ding

We have a winner!

[shraby]

2. Unless the RNC was hacked too and the info that was taken is being held in reserve to keep the

republican congresscritters in line. They would know they got hacked too, and as much as they denied it, I suspect they did.

That info would be blackmail material. No wonder they don't even peep at the transgressions by the white house.

[pangaia]

5. How can I be so dumb never to have thought of that possibility??

On the other hand, I don't think they really give a shit.. never have..
They want theirs.. That's how they think.

[rufus dog]

15. The RNC was hacked too

thus the actions by King and Grassley. Watch who is supporting and you will know who they have dirt on.

Kucinich is on the list, Dershowitz, Greenwald, etc.

[Thomas Hurt]

3. Christofascist theocracy

[Docreed2003]

4. I would encourage all here to review Charles Koch's presidential platform back in 1980

If you read that platform, especially in light of Trump's proposed "budgets", its crystal clear what the GOP end game is here. The GOP are puppets of the Koch's and many other wealthy puppet masters. Their goal is to undo every single progressive advancement of the 20th Century from Teddy Roosevelt's regulations and national parks, to the new deal, the great society and the ACA. That is their goal and they're winning behind the scenes thanks to the ridiculous joke of a president that's keeping the focus of the nation on his corruption and outrageous antics while they're robbing us blind behind the scenes.

[Amaryllis]

8. I know their long game goes back many years, but what is the purpose of their end game?

What's the why of it? It has to be more than money because it's such a long game. What do they gain from undoing every progressive advancement?

[Binkie The Clown]

7. More money and power for the wealthy. That's all. n/t

[marylandblue]

9. Warren Buffet quote

"There is a class warfare in this country and my class is winning."

That says it all.

[meadowlander]

10. Demographically, they know they are fucked.

It's been 20 years since they had the numbers to win without cheating.

And the more the country progresses to the left and becomes less religious, better educated and more tolerant and diverse, the more desperate they will be to rewrite the rules of the game so that they can stay in power.

What's at stake is the last few drips of easy profit before climate change and peak oil force a radical restructuring of the global economy. They also know that globalisation is inevitable and they want it to be on their terms - authoritarian-based Wild West capitalism.

[leftstreet]

16. +1

Nicely state, and spot on!

You should think about making this an OP

[CrispyQ]

11. The upper echelons of GOP power are involved in the Russian thing up to their necks.

McConnell, Ryan, Pence, some state govs, a whole slew of GOP deplorables. They know if they go after the Con, he will fink on all of them. Plus maybe they can pass their tax reform agenda in all this chaos & maybe, just maybe, if the IC doesn't act quickly enough, they can actually put more malfeasance into our electoral process, thus guaranteeing one party rule. It could happen. I know Watergate took two years, but we don't have two years. The Con is taking a wreaking ball to our institutions.

[Turbineguy]

12. Power

being in charge of a pile of shit is what they covet.

[librechik]

13. No gurlz allowd

And $$$$$$$$

[WinkyDink]

14. 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰

[Solly Mack]

17. Power. Control. Money.

[Boomerproud]

18. Every reply to this thread answers your question.

Power (if they don't have it-someone else will).
Greed (wringing every last drop of resources available for themselves).
A brainwashed electorate that has been programmed to believe that unchecked capitalism=freedom.

[workinclasszero]

19. The republicans will do anything

To destroy the safety net in this country and give all the billions of dollars keeping millions of American men woman and children alive to the 1%.

Before this last election I didn't think they would actively commit treason with a hostile foreign dictator to accomplish this evil deed but I now see that the traitorous republican filth will even go that far.

And every republican/conservative/religious right voter with damn few exceptions are backing Trump's treason 1000%!

[milestogo]

20. Its about maintaining the illusion of White Male Supremacy.

Which is not about what they want, its about who they hate: blacks, Muslims, women, and more...