Politics: Why Republicans Love Fighting Yesterday’s Battles

As Trump and plenty of others continue their grand delusions that the 2020 election was stolen from him, I figure like it is worth doing a post on the whole phenomenon that you see like this. They love fighting yesterday’s battle. I figure that I might as well do a post explaining why.

You see, when Republicans feel that there is some wrong done to them or by Democrats at some point in the past, they will dwell on this and fight this battle for as long as they want to. It is a way of enraging their base. How dare they! Remember how this thing happened? This was such a horrible wrong! Why should they still be allowed to get away with this?

One of the best examples of this might be Hillary Clinton’s emails. Even though she has since been cleared of that scandal in something that sadly barely made the news, they are going to focus on any and all of her wrongs. They want to make it clear that hey, aren’t you glad that she was never president? And they will then ignore, defend, or outright refuse to believe anything wrong that Trump did ever in his lifetime.

This is part of how we still wind up with people trying to change the results of the presidential election in 2020. Trump lost. And badly too. But people won’t believe it. They keep trying to get there to be some magical change in the results over a year later. There will never be any proof that the election was rigged. Trump never mentioned any evidence in any of his lawsuits since he doesn’t have any at all. That’s why nearly all of them failed. The polls had Trump losing to generic Democrat in all of the polls save for one from 2017 until Biden was the nominee. Trump never had a positive approval rating his entire presidency, something that no other president can claim. And yet we are thinking that only something being rigged would cause him to lose?

There’s a major problem with this flawed thinking by Republicans. The more they stay focused on the battles of the past, the more likely they won’t win the fights of the future. If they can’t stay focused on the now or what will come, they will always be dwelling in the past. And they will never move past things as they continue on like some petty person who always complains about the same thing that no one can change.

While this will always be a petty thing of conservatives to do, we are more than free to let them do it. After all, we as Democrats can be focused on moving forward and trying to focus more on things that are going to happen in the future with doing more good in the world. They can all be obsessed with not moving on and constantly being upset over long ago things and we can all be focused on the here and now while we seek to improve the world at hand.