[tristor]

> a politically Republican organization

Your other arguments aside, why is this surprising or relevant? For whatever else you can say about the broken politics in America, the only party that gives a shit about rural people is the Republicans, so of course any organization focused on rural issues is Republican.

[malcolmgreaves]

> the only party that gives a shit about rural people is the Republicans

Unfortunately, the Republican party has long outspent its benefit of the doubt.

I'll admit that Republicans say they care about rural people. But, then again, the Republican party says a lot of things, much of it are easily disprovable lies. An easy one to point out is the lie that "the 2020 election was stolen" or that the numerous criminal cases against the former president, backed by tremendous evidence, are "witch hunts". These, and other lies, are constantly pushed by the Republican party, its leadership, and the most vocal advocates of the party.

The Republican party doesn't have any credibility left. So, I'll continue to do the rational thing, which is to ignore the folks that have a long history, and ample evidence in the present, of intentionally lying.

Of course, I could be swayed if you can point to actual laws, executive actions, or judicial rulings made by Republicans -- and in opposition by Democrats -- that resoundly demonstrates that there is "only one party that gives a shit about rural people."

[tristor]

> The Republican party doesn't have any credibility left. So, I'll continue to do the rational thing, which is to ignore the folks that have a long history, and ample evidence in the present, of intentionally lying.

You're making politically motivated reasoning and ignoring the people who are telling you something from the ground. You're free to continue to do so, and this HN subthread is not the right place to re-litigate the entire history of American politics. Just be aware that motivated reasoning is not necessarily the best approach to find the truth.

[malcolmgreaves]

I wouldn't call this "motivated reasoning." It's rather simple cognitively: I have made observations and only the barest form of logical inference.

I've observing mountains of evidence that clearly shows multiple crimes committed by Mr. Trump. I've also observed how the Republican Party has decided to ignore this evidence and reject truth to rally behind him. Perhaps most notably was the GOP's 2020 platform (more accurately, lack of a platform as they didn't actually publish anything of substance other than a re-iteration of their positions 4 years prior), that included "party's continued support for Trump's America First agenda" [1]

I'm so curious as to what you could possibly mean by:

> who are telling you something from the ground

Because there's only conspiracy theories and outright lies left fueling the fabricated "outrage" in the Republican party.

[tristor]

I would suggest you simply re-read your comments and mine. You are so far down a rabbit hole here that's completely irrelevant to the original thing that was shared you replied to, that I'm not even remotely going to engage in what you are writing. I'd suggest you take a deep breath and read.