[XiJInPaddington]

Am I alone in thinking the government reaction to this shows the complete ideological bankruptcy of supposed "free market" Republicans? When push comes to shove, they support government intervention as much as any bleeding heart liberal. The only differences are who they want to protect, where their political bread is buttered. What is different between an energy bill and a bill from a hospital?

At some point it's almost like we ought to treat Republican governments like a foreign adversary - just like putting sanctions on Russia is not ideal because ordinary non murdering Russians get hurt, it's not as if we can condemn regular Texans to freeze because of lowlives like Abbott and Cruz. But we have to do something about it, at some point the amount of damage they are doing to the republic has to be confronted.

[dingus9]

Sanctioning political opponents kind of sounds like a dictatorship to me.

[XiJInPaddington]

Quite frankly I do not think people like Majorie Greene or Steve King being stripped of committee assignments sounds at all like a dictatorship. If anything I think that sentiment is really insulting to opposition leaders in actual dictatorships, who are thrown in jail if not executed. I think the casualness in which that word is bandied about speaks volumes about how people in the West take their free democracies for granted and lack understanding of how most of the rest of the world operates.