One of the funniest Twitter moments was when the FBI arrested Roger Stone and [American football player] Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson teeeted, “FBI arrested my neighbor Roger before my morning jog, I’ve only seen shit like that in movies, crazy to start to my Friday.”
I think more people learned about it from people sharing that Tweet than from any news organization.
You don’t think if people stop just standing by the sidelines watching, but instead participate, specifically pushing back on their Representatives and their Senators, asking for change, that things wouldn’t change? At all?
Congress does what it does because we all sit on our asses and do nothing about it, except maybe go vote every once in awhile.
They have no respect for us, because they don’t see us as participating in the system, only companies that give them money are seen in their eyes to be participating.
“Democracy already failed.” is total bullshit, plain and simple, and it’s rhetoric that doesn’t help solve any problems.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court threw out the gerrymandered election maps. This happened only after an election shifted the balance of the court. That election had record breaking turnout, because the people were engaged and ready to fight for their rights.
Democracy isn’t dead, but it is in danger. Giving up isn’t going to make things better.
The lines put forward by Evers in court and passed by the Legislature Tuesday still slightly favor Republicans, according to an analysis from Marquette University Law School. But they are competitive overall and give both parties a chance to compete for a majority in both legislative chambers.
One red wave, one red governor, and the state goes right back to where it started.
The situation is untenable when one party works exhaustively to cheat on the first day in office and the other has to spend the next ten years cleaning up the mess.
As of March, we’re seeing generic Republicans with a coin flip chance of winning statewide with a map that marginally favors their party.
One of the ways democracy falls is if we prematurely declare it fallen. Abortion referendums in deep red states have passed. Democrats have won in Alabama suburbs. Republicans could at best tie Democrats in economic conditions that heavily favored them.
Democracy is succeeding. What we’re seeing is that it takes time to change things, because there is entrenched power. That’s slowly eroding away though, because they have gone too far against the people.
We are in a position to completely eliminate entrenched Republican power over the next decade or so if we remain persistent, all through democracy. It will be slow, but it will work.
One of the ways democracy falls is if we prematurely declare it fallen
You’ve got it backwards. Democracies fall because people assert the institutional rot can’t happen to their sacred soil and refuse to acknowledge their own internal failures.
Democracy is succeeding.
When barely half the eligible voting population bothers to participate? When seats are so heavily gerrymandered that 40% of the voting public can command a super majority in the legislature? When every election is (fairly or not) considered rigged or stolen going back to the Kennedy Administration?
We are in a position to completely eliminate entrenched Republican power over the next decade
We are not. Nobody on the Dem side of the ballot wants this. Party leadership wants a strong opposition. They even state as much publicly.
What about my religion? We have core tenants to existence…
1: Thou shall not bitch about what thou finds out, after thou fucketh around.
2: Thy Lord and Savior hath empowered thou to skip school and throw rocks at parked luxury SUVs without consequence.
3: Any other religious commandment system preceding or proceeding this system are an affront to thy mental sovereign, and must be vandalized or destroyed before any other task can be done.
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