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While I strongly agree this needs to happen, I'd also put 50/50 odds at Trump ending congress before he complies with a democratic speaker. He'll declare it an insurrection, and institute martial law first.
Did you see the leaked memo about using the military against Americans? He's goimg to take over regardless
Of course, although I'm given hope by the fact that they can't fill ICE recruitment. They're going to have bigger problems with the military, much worse than they already saw in California.
I really don’t like the direction this is going; two wrongs don’t make a right. No matter which way things turn out now it’s going to make anti-gerrymandering laws more difficult in the future, either because everyone’s doing it or the GOP has gerrymandered any opposition out of existence.
I get your worries, but "we go high" is how we ended up with fascism, and doing it again is how we kill democracy.
My worry is making Democrats safer in their districts will necessarily coincide with those Democrats being less accountable to their constituents and more beholden to large money interests. I guess it's better than not fighting, but things will likely continue to get worse on both sides of the aisle.
Personally, I hate the democrat party, but I have to keep voting for them because we have this fascist party on the other side. I've said it repeatedly, especially being in a red state. We need every person to claw the republicans out of their places of power, and so that means allying with the corpo group that is against them because they are out of power. The thing is WHEN the GOP is out, we can't rest then have to claw the dems out so that we can actually get some real representation.
Voting isn't a one and done game, it's a fucking shitslog where you grab a shovel and keep shoveling shit and that hole is never empty. BUT when it comes to building for a better tomorrow, it's worth shoveling every day just for that one step forward. But right now we're in over our heads so we need every fucking hand on deck, even if it's ones we hate.
There's "we go high", which is basically an arrogant form of meekness; there's "gloves off", which is fighting aggressively without being completely unethical and antidemocratic; and then there's "if they can do it we can", that eliminates all standards of conduct, ethics, and morality in favor of a race to the bottom that fascists will inevitably win.
I know you think that blatantly partisan gerrymandering is the middle one, but it's actually the last one. Especially when you consider the fact that third parties and independents will likely lose some if not all of what little opportunity they have left in the Neoliberal stronghold as a result.
So fucking true. Well said.
it’s going to make anti-gerrymandering laws more difficult in the future
You don't get it. This had already happened. This is the courts' doing Democrats need to start using maga's tactics against them or we're all sunk.
The future was 20 years ago. Way past that point
We could ban the GOP from American politics for having a coup.
I really don’t like the direction this is going; two wrongs don’t make a right.
All to appear ostensibly progressive without alienating their oligarch patrons.
Lol, this isn't new. The GOP has been doing it for ages.
The CA the ballot measure isn’t indefinite and the people control whether or not it continues.
Also worth noting that the initial rules against gerrymandering were put in place via a ballot measure, not by the elected representatives.
I’m all for this shit if the people continue to have a kill switch.
Thank you for enabling the rise of fascism. You’re doing your part bootlicker!
Good.
I’ll believe it when I see results because we all know what happened when he told us he’d stand up to PG&E
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