What if they make it violent? Trump wanted martial law and the military told him to fuck off. What happens next time? When lies prevail, when truth means nothing and a majority does not care or a significant % can break all the rules and the majority averts their eyes, where does that leave us? Screwed, that’s where.
I’m not saying that is not possible, but when you have people in charge who view breaking rules as a path to continue to hold power, all bets are off.
So after only 50 years, humanity has changed so much that now violence is the only answer? Given the thousands of years of human existence, I find that hard to believe. That being said, we do resort to violence more often than we change things peacefully. Humanity has quite a penchant for violence.
One thing I don’t care for are equivalence arguments that try to make it sound like they are all alike. Not accusing you, unless you are specifically saying that they are, but there are distinct unrefutable differences that place Democrats on top of Republicans, and make them a better political party more suited to functioning in a democracy. Lieing and breaking rules for the win is unacceptable, and this is what we have in the Republican Party of 2016. . It’s undebatable.
Democrats should have more belief in progressive policies. They get into power and they start to believe “if we pass progressive policies, voters will hate us and switch to Republicans!” Then they pass watered-down policies or none at all, and then lose, and assume the tiny bit they moved the needle towards a better society is the reason they lost. In reality, it’s the fact they only passed a milquetoast version of the policy. Republicans will always say everything is too progressive, but when Dems lose, it‘s usually because of tepid turnout… the result of not passing the legislation their voters actually want. If every Democrat was like Sanders or Jayapal, we’d have universal healthcare by now.
What did Republicans pass (on the federal level) from 2017-2020? All I remember was a tax cut. That’s it. Their platform is “Washington is broken; keep government out of our lives!” It’s easy to pass nothing, and convincing their voters that doing so is a good thing is a triumph of advertising and brainwashing.
Court nominees are not laws. I’m talking about actually doing something. And not all nominees end up being what you think… Justice Roberts is starting to side with the “liberal” judges more and more often as time goes on.
Yep, they screwed themselves with the abortion ban. 2/3‘s of people don’t want abortion banned. They should have stayed with their “block everything” strategy, because abortion being illegal is going to energize the left, while at the same time, the ”pro-life” folks don’t have motivation because they already got what they wanted. They never really wanted an abortion ban. What they wanted was a wedge issue to turn out voters. This is going to backfire big-time, I think. It should motivate local and state races too: do you want the GOP to take over your state and ban abortion? If not, you’d better get off your ass and get to the polls.
This situation exists Imo because we are teetering on a ball with basically halves of the country pulling in opposite directions. The democrats do not have a comfortable majority at all, barely have a majority, and with the hard core corrupt Republican inspired gerrymandering going on that will most likely eliminate that Democratic majority in 2022, which btw is kind of making me lose my mind, (I think we are going to Hell literally), the democrats in Congress don’t have carte blanche to do anything including 2 sinister DINOS fucking up their agenda, so it’s absolutely NO SURPRISE they are having difficulty getting their agenda passed.
This situation exists Imo because we are teetering on a ball with basically halves of the country pulling in opposite directions. The democrats do not have a comfortable majority at all, barely have a majority, and with the hard core corrupt Republican inspired gerrymandering going on that will most likely eliminate that Democratic majority in 2022, which btw is kind of making me lose my mind, (I think we are going to Hell literally), the democrats in Congress don’t have carte blanche to do anything including 2 sinister DINOS fucking up their agenda, so it’s absolutely NO SURPRISE they are having difficulty getting their agenda passed.
There is a feeling that if we all get ourselves voted out, there will be no progressive agenda period which is also mixed in with political survival instincts, but that does not make the sentiment any less true.
How can anyone be mad at the democrats if you see the situation clearly? If you want to be mad, there are a great number of citizens who are just too stupid, too selfish, not engaged or don’t give a damn to recognize the dire straights Democracy is in within the United States In 2021. That’s on the collective us.
And there is an angry philosophical part of me that says if we are too stupid, then fuck us, we deserve the shit headed our way, what better way to learn a lesson, after the fact, finally recognizing your country has turned into a fascist state. There will be plenty of time for boo hoos and self reflection afterwards.
And there is hardcore shit going on such as the law passed in Georgia allowing a board of elections to be replaced by the legislature is the kind of shit that will cause this country to unravel.
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How do you deal with a political party that has broken bad? The only way out is to elect more democrats or start a revolution.
The entirety of this post is based on a political party, the Republicans who no longer respect the law or the spirit of our Constitution. I’m not predicting this will happen, but it seems to be a distinct possibility in our near future Based soley on how the GOP has morphed into the Party of Trump, and whatever you can get away with is ok by them.