âIf we continue to underperform in this multi-racial world that is going to be America, and the white voters are going to be a clear minority, the Republican party will cease to exist.â⌠Plan B: find innovative ways to keep a growing percentage of the rising demographic tide of non-white voters from the ballot box.
So now the real GOP will start taking their cue from the âfictionalâ GOP and begin to develop a designer virus that will sterilize the âbrown peopleâ.
Letâs hope that this is one of those times when Fiction IS stranger than Truth and this doesnât happen⌠however todayâs GOP is so bad I cannot rule it out.
This article points out what the Republican party has become and it is a logical extension of the Southern strategy employed by Nixon. They are going to cling onto power by any means available to them and it is clear why they wonât do anything about Trumpâs collusion with the Russians. It does help to know exactly who you are fighting and how they work but it is going to be a long haul to bring back something resembling equal representation. NC is a good indicator of what the GOP is capable of and how hard it is to reverse their illegal and legal activities.
Does anyone know whether the first DNC debate will allow voter-submitted questions? Here is mine
Considering the Census, redistricting, horrible state legislation, the judges the Senate confirms to uphold the state legislation while refusing to even consider badly needed federal law, and given where you live, who your local incumbents and contenders are, why is running for President the best contribution you personally could be making right now for the good of the country? Which of these other, critically important offices would be a logical next step for you?
Republicans certainly hatched an effective plan for over-performing in Congressional elections but it could only work in the short term for a few reasons:
Most people arenât nearly as tribal as Republicans operatives were hoping. Sure, white suburban people are more likely to vote Republican, but only to a point. As the Republican Party becomes more radical and delusional, many of the white suburban voters they assumed were safe Rs start to bail on them.
The unforeseen consequence of gerrymandering was that it would radicalize the Republican Party to this extent. Republicans who werenât crazy enough risked getting primaried in these âsafeâ Republican districts. As the Party drifted inevitably into further delusion this way, they undid the very safety they were counting on in these districts.
Blowback-- After years of using corrupt policies to stay in power, their corruption will inevitably be exposed once they lose power. This exposure should undermine any attempt for them to regain power to the extent they have it now for at least a generation. Most millennials already think the Republicans are the âstupidâ party. Once theyâve realized that Republicans are also the party of corruption, they wonât likely back them for a very long time.
In short, the tactics Republicans have used to consolidate power over the last decade will likely undermine the future of their party for a very long time.
Eventually the republican plan will fail. But if the country is unlucky, it could take a very long time. Long enough that the US effectively becomes an enormous version of Haiti.
If the GOP wins in 2020, and the supremes give the green light to more voter suppression and gerrymandering, that could well take us into the 2030s. At which point it will take until the 2040s just to dix stuff and get back to where we were a few years ago.
If you canât beat 'em, join 'em eliminate 'em!
The problem with this scenario is that we needed to start addressing CO2 emissions back in the Reagan era. Itâs a global problem, but there is no solution without all the industrialized economies involved. The world canât afford another 20 years of GOP control of the US government. By 2050, south Florida is going to be a northern extension of the Florida Keys.
So, Mar a Lago is just going to be MarâŚ
I donât think the republican plan will âfailâ in due course.
I think it will evolve. Or perhaps âdevolveâ.
I think it is counting on redefining what âdemocracyâ looks like.
I sea what you did thereâŚ
Or doesnât look likeâŚ
Judge Roberts provided the boost needed to get the criminal in the WH elected by gutting the Voting Rights Act and sanctioning foreign contributions with Citizens United. Today, he waits to put the nail in the coffin with the census citizrnship question and allowing gerrymandering.
âWeâre now entering the final phase.â
Not by a long shot is Step Four, following up on Shelby v Holder, the final phase in R efforts to hold back, and even reverse, the demographic tide.
Step Five is the deportation of the 11 million undocumented. Sure, they have the right to due process in finalizing their deportation, and no way does this administration have the resources to manage the due process deportation of more than a trickle of these 11 million. But it can detain freely, and after detention, the lack of resources is actually a bonus, making the conditions of detention so inhumane that its victims will waive their due process rights and self-deport rather than see their children sicken and starve.
Step Six involves overturning the long-standing interpretation of the 14th Amendment as conferring citizenship on everyone born in the US. This idea was once the preserve of their fringe, but their fringe is now mainstream. A few months ago, their then DHS Secy, Nielsen, came out for that position publicly. A few weeks later she resigned, or was forced to resign â not because saying such a thing was too extreme for this administration, but because she refused to implement some anti-immigrant measures, perhaps Step Five. In retrospect, it looks like Nielsen publicly endorsed ending birth citizenship in a vain bid to prove that she âwas toâ extreme enough to keep her job. Apparently, even being for ending birth citizenship just isnât extreme enough for this administration.
Yup.
The notion that âThey surely wonât go this far, because some day OUR party will be in controlâ - gives them waay to much credit for empathy.
You donât have to be nice to the little people on your way up, if you never come down again.
This is built in to their thinking. Itâs what drives âFuck you, I got mine.â Itâs the basis for âWho cares about global warming, in sixty years, IâLL be dead.â Itâs the whole basis for giving corporations âpersonhoodâ because they never die. So whatâs good for the corporation - overrules whatâs good for the people.
Sadly, the only solution to the GOPâs ongoing jihad to cement minority rule is overwhelming Democratic victories in 2020 on an unfair terrain. This means on all levels: state, both houses of Congress, and the presidency.
It isnât easy, but what choice do we have?
True enough, but what are the odds that the Ds, even after getting the trifecta, will then do anything to end potential future R encroachments, much less reverse what theyâve already accomplished?
I like the odds better with the Democrats than if the GOP prevails. Didnât you?
And there it is. The Republican party is the party of âwhite votersâ [he was not THAT stupid to say âwhite menâ] ⌠but weâre not racist!!!
I always vote, and I always vote D. But I gave up decades ago on any expectation that voting D would result in any public policy gains. So, no, I donât expect the odds on getting pubic policy that doesnât violate common sense and common decency as much as the status quo does, to improve even if Ds get the trifecta.
I donât even vote D to delay the slide, because I donât expect some deus ex machina to reorder the universe anytime soon so that standing up for common sense and common decency will suddenly become so easy that even the Ds will start doing that. For example, yes, it would be hard to stand up now for amnesty for most of the 11 million undocumented. But if we donât, they will eventually be ethnically cleansed. because they are too much of a threat to the Rs. And, hard as it would be to embrace amnesty now, it will never get easier anywhere on the path to that ethnic cleansing.
I vote for Ds solely because they arenât openly so much for stupid and vicious public policy. Refusing to be openly for the opposite is not, practically, any better. In fact, it adds this feature to the Rs open embrace of the stupid and vicious, that they get to claim that even the Ds who espouse common sense and common decency in theory arenât willing to actually stand up for that better way when it comes to actual practice.
I am never going to pretend that, just because the Rs are openly stupid and vicious, that makes the Ds wise and virtuous, or even that they will ever, unless they abandon their present course of public policy timidity and political messaging, reverse any of the vicious stupidity that we have let grow up in our public life.