Posted on 05/30/2023 3:35:55 PM PDT by DallasBiff
As our nation comes to grip with the horrific events of January 6 and watches the Republican Party descend further into Trumpism as it pushes hundreds of restrictive voting laws across the country, the obvious question is how does American democracy come back from all this?
There is a path forward: The super-majority of Americans across the political spectrum who reject the extremism need to come together. This includes the pro-democracy right. But for the pro-democracy right to thrive, we need to reform the U.S. voting system to allow for new parties to emerge outside the existing two-party system. Without electoral reform, third parties are likely to fail as spoilers. But only a new small “l” liberal Republican Party—distinct from the increasingly illiberal Trumpist GOP, can establish a new partisan identity that gives center-right voters a meaningful home. Only a new party can create a distinct pathway to elected office that avoids the combatively hyper-partisan Republican primary voters. A party faction cannot do these things. Left to fight a losing battle in the Republican Party, as the recent CPAC confirmed, the withering pro-democracy faction is up against frightening odds
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Still remember my father saying to my mother," why do subscribe to that sh!t."
But when it came to the sunday New York Times, my mother read the fashion pages, and obituary's religiously. My dad would read it and say "All the News fit to tint".
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Trump agrees. He blames conservatives for the 2022 midterms loss.
That is why Trump has been attacking conservatives and endorsing RINOs.
Um.........NO. Commie rat bastard.
Democracy is mob rule.
We don’t want democracy.
We want our Constitutional republic back.
The communists are asking all the useful idiots to gang up on us.
Read my tagline.
How were those mushrooms you took this morning?
According to the leftists, studying and turning in homework is barriers to black achievement in schools. Requiring an ID is a barriers to voting. Requiring one to be a girl to compete in girls sports is a barrier to fake men. Requiring women to be physically competent is a barrier to them being firemen or soldiers.
To hell with them all.
We feel the same about them. In the past, we were live and let live until your actions affected someone else. But they pushed, and they pushed, until they pushed too far! They went after our children!
Things have changed since 2021. Notably the Ukraine war and ongoing economic problems.
The article puts down Poland’s PiS for instance.
But since 2022 the very anti-Russian PiS are the good guys.
And Merkel’s reputation has suffered terribly.
And that’s just in Europe.
Wow - someone out there still reads Time.
Who’d have guessed?
Look folks! Another Trump cultist who cannot refute my assertion using FACTS, so they call names.
Too bad that they are so vapid.
IOW: Democracy can’t survive if those who disagree with me are allowed to participate.
Proving once again that Democracy dies with Democrats.
Ranked choice voting is a verrrry bad idea.
When a Leftist says “democracy” he really means “socialism”.
Lindsey Graham was responsible, with his national abortion ban nonsense, so Trump is not wrong. With the added Biden bait and switch of college debt forgiveness , the right had no chance to capture gen z votes… which ultimately lost many races.
Far Right = So FAR we’ve been RIGHT about everything!!!
Normal people don’t attempt to refute total nonsense—they just rightfully mock it.
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