voting is more important than ever -- but don't let anyone tell you we have a functioning democracy.
it's been clear for a while now that republicans cheat.
but what's changed, starting I think with the shrub administration and now in full view with the donnie disaster, is that republicans *know* they can cheat effectively and therefore now *operate* under the assumption that they will be the beneficiaries of this ongoing cheating.
that is, they no longer operate by trying to win normally, then cheat only if they have to.
instead, they operate with full and open contempt of the majority because they know that they will be able to get away with cheating and they know they don't need a majority to win -- they only need enough of their base and voter suppression and disenfranchisement and gerrymandering and registration purges and suspect voting machines and espionage and media manipulation and money and advertising and trickery and dirty tricks and so on will take care of the rest.
this is how we can end up with a hyper-partisan, belligerent alcoholic, vindictive, conspiracy theorist with terrible judgment and who has been accused of multiple felonies by multiple people on the supreme court.
it's because republicans operate in open contempt of the will of the majority.
voting is now more important than ever. not because they must hear what the majority wants, but because we need to get a *super-majority* to vote for democrats in order to overcome the cheating, so we can actually win elections.
only then will republicans even begin to pay a price for treating the majority with such contempt.
= new reply since forum marked as read
