Comment on This: Russian Propagandists are Coaching the GOP
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With all obvious and explicit support for Putin’s goals in Ukraine, can there be any doubt that Russian propagandists are tutoring the GOP?
Election 2024: Mocking MAGA Ridiculousness Key to Saving Democracy, Who Knew?
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That the airwaves and etherways are clogged with the detritus of Republican mis and disinformation is no mystery. The only real question is, how to counter it. As it turns out the snarky, sarcasticky, and profaney among us have been right all along! Vicious mockery works, who knew?
Comment on This: Trump’s Numbers in South Carolina are MEANINGLESS
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Everybody is losing their minds over Election 2024. Trump won SC by DOUBLE DIGITS! He’s UNSTOPPABLE! If he’s convicted he’ll lose 30% of his voters. The vote in SC was meaningless. Convince me I’m wrong.
Election 2024: The Asymmetrical Threat From the Republican Party and Leftist Activist Mavericks
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The media insists that both Republicans and Democrats pose violent threats against our democratic norms and traditions when it clearly is only the Republicans that do. This post ties together how elite overproduction and racial animus combine to produce the Republican threat to our democracy.
Election 2024: The Undermining of our Democratic Culture by the Republican Party and Conservative Media
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The way you undermine an established democracy is by attacking its democratic culture. You’ve got to get people who once believed in democratic solutions to their problems to accept autocratic ones. Here’s the progress polling reveals Trump and Republicans have made in eroding our democratic culutre.
The Threat to Our Democracy isn’t Just Trump, it is the Republican Party
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The threat to our democracy isn’t just from Trump or MAGA, it is from the entire GOP. The only way to defeat their anti-democratic ways is by voting for Democrats up and down the ballot.
The Great Civics Lesson: Understanding the Views and Values of Democracy and How the Republicans are Opposed to Them
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When House Republicans show you that they are anti-democratic election denying authoritarians, we ought to believe them and punish them for it at the polls, don’t you think? Make 2024 the last election the authoritarians are viable. Vote them out!
Call Your Representative: Urge Them to go to the Battered Moderate Representative Shelter Before it is Too Late
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The relationship between House MAGA and moderate Republicans is like watching your neighbor descend into madness because of their toxic abusive relationship with each other. You know they should end it. At least one of them knows it. They can’t do it. Should you even get involved? In this case, you gotta call your Republican MoC and say the Speaker can’t have voted against certification of Biden or impeachment.
The Psychological Explanation of the Wisconsin Legislature’s Reversal on Gerrymandering
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The Wisconsin GOP is now supporting democracy? Will give up gerrymandering a permanent super-majority? How is that EVEN possible? Psychology has the answer, even if it is likely a trap!
The “Free Speech” Gaslighting Defense Proves the GOP’s Intent to End American Democracy
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The conservatives of the country are all in for the #GOPDystopia and authoritarianism. The popular defense of Trump in the DC indictment as being a free speech violation is gaslighting and shows how badly they want Trump’s authoritarian regime.
The Republican Party Means to Destroy the World Economy to Create a US Oligarchic Dystopia
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The Republicans sure do seem intent on destroying the US. Defaulting on the debt would cripple our economy and create the conditions for them to usher in their GOP Dystopia.
“All Men Are Created Equal” the Liberal Superpower to Defeat Fascism
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The research of Karen Stenner on the authoritarian dynamic suggests that non-authoritarians become more liberal when confronted by deteriorating conditions. This tendency has saved us from fascism in the past and will now.
Why the Shambolic Mess of a McCarthy’s Speaker Debacle is Good News for our Democracy
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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!
McCarthy and House Republicans in Disarray: Victims of Their Own Divisiveness
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As much as I enjoy watching an asshole get his comeuppance, the problems that the Republicans are having in electing a Speaker of the House foreshadow much bigger problems to come. Cultural Evolution, Cultural Multilevel Selection, and the importance of cooperation for social success predict as much.
GOP Forging New Violent Pathway to Divisiveness through White Christian Nationalism and Open Naked Racism
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The GQP has unleashed a ravening beast to feed upon our democracy. To satisfy its appetite for extremism, the GQP must become even more divisive, so it will be religion as the driver until we get widespread violence.
Anger Pervades Entirety of GQP; Powers Fascism
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Anger is now at the core of white identity. It is the foundation of grievance politics. You expect the base to be irrationally angry, but not the staffers and office holders, but you’re wrong. And it is that pervasive anger that is driving the fascism of the GOP.
Vote Blue in ’22: The GOP’s Long-Term Plan to Re-write the Constitution
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The GOP has a concerted, well-organized, long-term, and well-funded plan to re-write our Constitution to make a more perfect minority-rule pseudo-democratic single-party autocracy. #VoteLikeUrDemocracyDependsOnIt
How the Competing Narratives of Risk and Loss will affect the November 2022 Elections
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Election 2022 is shaping up to be the most consequential election since 2020! Democrats fear the loss of rights and our very democracy. The stakes are quite high. For Republicans, they have only their old tropes to stir up fear and angst with. Which will turn out the base?
Humans are the Problem
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The very things that we evolved to help us become the most dominant species on the planet are the very things that are killing us now. Find out why we can’t have nice things and maybe never will. How are we worseing our problems?
The Great Civics Lesson: How the GOP Will Steal the 2022 Election
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How will the GQP rat fuck the 22 election? They will do it from the inside out dismantling our democracy one elections official at a time. They will smeer a thin veneer of legality over the festering pile of shyte that they plan on making of the election.
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