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With the betting windows open on McCarthy’s time with the Speaker’s gavel, it is hard to imagine that the mess Republicans are making in Congress and in legislators across the country can be good for us, but it is. #ScienceFact. But, there’s math!
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With one third of the population set to have their inner authoritarian meltdown at any moment, what can we do to get them to see democracy as their in-group? How can Democrats continue to peel authoritarians off of the MAGA base?
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The 6 January Committee has released its summary of a report. It should alarm us all. It should light a new fire of urgency to hold Trump et al. accountable before the 2024 elections. Will it?
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The problem with the Republicans and their authoritarian pusch is that voters, and I mean white voters, won’t punish them for their anti-democratic ways. We see it EVERY election, a majority of white voters vote fascist.
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If 2020 was the safe bet election, then 2022 is the fuck around and find out election. The GQP done fucked around with our democracy, our rights, and our climate. It’s about time they found out.
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Why do all of the conservative traits cluster around the fucked up end of the spectrum? Racism, misogyny, homophobia, authoritarianism. All conservative traits. But, history is on our side!
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By now we’ve all heard about MTG’s malaprop of Gazpacho-Gestapo, and we’ve made our jokes and collected up a bunch of likes, shares, and follows. But there is more to her statement than just her own ignorance. It is the very real threat to our democracy that she and our response to her poses.
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There are many ways to steal an election, you just look for the weak links and exploit them. Here’s all the ways that the Republicans will use to steal Election 2022.
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Forewarned is forearmed. Planning ahead on what you’ll do when the GQP refuses to seat Democratic winners and ties the 2022 election up in court will help ensure you do it. Starting to organize and train now for the mass peaceful protests that will be necessary to #SaveOurDemocracy is imperative.
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Our democracy died when we started electing politicians who thought it was more important that they get re-elected than representing their constituents or political positions.
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A report on mathematical models of our democracy as Complex Adaptive Systems suggests we are at the tipping point in the fight for our democracy. 2022 will be the year that we fight for our democracy. Should we lose the election, we will have lost our democracy, but that doesn’t mean the fight is over, though.
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Every election cycle, the GQP drums up some racist dog whistle to seduce the middle-class suburban voter with, accuse Dems of socialists, and claim credit for the things they haven’t done. The Dems stumble and fumble their messaging. Why can’t the Dems ever learn?
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It was a busy week, so not much to report… not much interesting, anyway. We’ve figured out a solution to trypanophobia but not for jokes about the omicron variation and lots of reading recommendations.
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Should the US make like the Beatles and break up or the Stones and stay together? Which is better for us as a country and a world? It’s a tough question.
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Sociologist, Arlie Hochschild, describes MAGA Nation and the Insurrectionists as the elite of the left behind. I describe them as seeing democracy as too much of a risk that a Black or Brown will be elevated, minority-rule autocracy is a sure thing.
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White people have an inner racist. That inner racist needs to be tamed by direct confrontation by its owner. Most white people don’t have what it takes to do so, so they vote based on racist dog whistles like CRT and defund the police. Simple as that.
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Time recently published an article outlining out Jeffrey Sonnenfeld marshalled America’s CEOs to oppose the Republican authoritarian power grab from the Big Lie to the 6 January Insurrection to voter suppression and nullification laws, but their enthusiasm for that opposition has fractured and grown confused just like our electorate’s has.
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Why the fuck do so people people believe the Big Lie? Why the fuck aren’t more people outraged — we’re looking at you Sen Manchin — that our democracy is being dismantled right before our very eyes? Well, we have the answer! Proportionality Bias!
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Tim Snyder’s essay in The New York Times Magazine brilliantly links our recent laws defining what can be taught in school about our history, the culture war on Critical Race Theory, and the authoritarian power grab by the GQP together. It’s well worth the read.
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