I’m actually talking about what DID happen, though. It’s my entire point. We (as a nation) actively ignored systemic racism, as well as white supremacist groups, protected them via first amendment cases, and the problem in recent years has become entirely unmanageable. 
Federal law enforcement studiously ignored terrorism by white supremacists, in part because of their use of the lone wolf strategy.
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I think it’s more of a problem of preserving the status quo, which includes the leadership of both parties.
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This would make sense if the Repubs were logical enough to see a resounding defeat by the numbers and take that at face value.
The problem is that when they lose, it can’t possibly be that their opinion/favored candidate is not the popular choice… Clearly there is fraud etc… going on and they won by a bazillion votes in reality (note: not actual reality. Reality ™ is a entirely fictional dimension where Reagan is still president, and Santa brings the baby Jesus to give every good child an AR-15 each Christmas).
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I’m hoping the Democrats both win. I hope the GOP tears itself to pieces over the next year. I hope the near future includes a bunch of white supremacist insurrectionist cosplayers shot dead in D.C., and a whole lot more whining from jail cells about how they were just kidding.
But no matter what happens:
If you want to defend democracy, you have to participate in it. Pick some causes you are passionate about, and get involved. Volunteer, donate, educate, inspire. Join a campaign, become a voting member a local Democratic (or DSA, or whatev) party, run for office.
My pinned activism twitter thread:
And:
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As the saying goes: “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
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Obedience and rationality do not coexist.
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"The election of 2020, like the election of 2016, was hard fought and, in many swing states, narrowly decided. The 2020 election, however, featured unprecedented allegations of voter fraud, violations and lax enforcement of election law, and other voting irregularities.
"Voter fraud has posed a persistent challenge in our elections, although its breadth and scope are disputed. By any measure, the allegations of fraud and irregularities in the 2020 election exceed any in our lifetimes.
The rampant howls of voter fraud were from Trump parroted by his base supporters. There must be some merit to these allegations, right Cruz?
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It’s all about the grift. The longer he keeps this up, the more emails he can send out, the more money from credulous cretins flows straight into his pocket.
He was born a grifter and he’ll die a grifter.
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Well, they’re not wrong. But it’s because an asshole has a bullhorn.
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THIS. This!
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Which is why it is necessary to thwart them by any means possible, before it happens. Afterwards, it will be far too late.
They have no intention of playing fair, they have set the rules by which they intend to play.
Only a fool would ignore this fact & act as if the old rules still apply. To do so is to insure your own defeat and worse.
After Reagan, the Ds decided on a strategy of 'If you can’t beat 'em, join ‘em’, & have, ever since, tried for that mythical Centrist voter. In the meantime, the Rs have steadily become far more reactionary & have dragged the Ds much farther rightward along with them.
As you know, Obamacare was originally a Republican program.
Yeah, it’s a structural problem, all right & it begins at the top of the D leadership.
Voter fraud has been shown to be so low as to be statistically insignificant; ironically, Lord Dampnut has engaged in it ever since he declared Mara Lago as his residence (which he cannot do, according to local statute).
Election fraud is a whole 'nother animal, & is rampant.
I would dearly love to see Pelosi refuse to swear in the incumbent Rs who are engaging in this attempted ratfuckery… lock up their offices & have them frog-marched off the premises for tresspassing.
I’m not holding my breath, though.
Moscow Mitch won’t do diddly squat on his end of the building. Maybe make some noises.
In any case, we need to remember their names.
Edit: tyop
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Nothing says democracy more than deeming only the election of one party’s politicians (seditionists and traitors all) as legal and legitimate.
Some piece of shit on TV said that Trump’s voters had their right to vote at risk because of the clear illegitimacy of the impossible happening e.g. losing was impossible so the vote had to have been illegitimate.
The anchor let that pass without asking:
- What about the ~81 million votes for Biden?
- What about GOP suppression of the votes of Blacks?
Democracy dies in the bullshit and dishonesty of establishment journalism. It’s not just Fox. Indeed, the establishment media are worse by reaching a later audience.
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Fox News ARE the establishment media. They’re the most watched news network in the US.
By all means call out CNN and co. for their bad handling of this but don’t forget that Fox News is actively partisan while the others are just incompetent/driven by profit motives. And don’t do all this “mainstream media” BS. That just makes you sound like one of them.
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The nominal mainstream treat Fox as an outlier.
FNC’s cumulative daily audience is approximately the same as the CBS Evening News, the smallest audience of the three evening shows. The combined mainstream shows’ audiences are far larger than Fox. And the problem is that the mainstream pretty much supports the same shit as Fox when you get down to it. Which is my point; audience numbers are unimportant given the mainstream support for the GOP and our corrupted leadership.
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And that’s the thing. A 50-50 senate with Kamala casting the tie vote will not be anything like a railroad for the the “liberal agenda.” But at least the Senate WILL get to vote on measures like say increasing the minimum wage that are quite popular with a broad swath of the electorate, but not with GOP leadership. McConnell has been very firm in not allowing any measure that is not supported by a majority of the GOP Senators from being voted on, even if it has clear support of a majority of senators.
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Al three work for me, but I’m happy either way.
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The only problem with a 50/50 +Harris Senate, and compared to a Republican majority, it is a small problem, is the amount of power it gives to folks like Manchin (D) WV. He will sell his vote to the Republicans for the right price, and I don’t know what effect that will have. But I do know he will become a power player and I don’t trust him one bit, especially on climate issues.
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C’mon, Georgia, stay blue.
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Future historians (and chemists!) will have a fun time explaining how Clostridium ljungdahlii became a controlled substance in the early 21st century.
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Had to look that up!
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