Should we interrupt them?

[TygrBright]

Nothing unifies a group composed of people with many backgrounds and varying experiences and points of view as effectively as a big, fat, menacing wall to push against.

Whatever minor differences they may have are subsumed in the consensus that the wall MUST come down.

You will see this in action in Afghanistan as without the wall of U.S. occupation to push against, the Taliban will begin splintering and forming factions and fighting among themselves, trying to grab the biggest share of any boodle available, push their specific agenda the hardest, work out vengeance on their particular enemies the fastest, etc. Take it to the bank. It may take weeks or months, but within a year or two we will see information about this Taliban faction versus that Taliban faction and the suffering that chaos continues to inflict on the Afghan people.

For decades, here in the United States, the wealthy and powerful have used the GOP and its cadre of useful idiots to push back against a looming wall of inevitable progress and change that will dilute their hold on power and limit their capacity to loot the economy. By painting the wall with layers of white supremacist, nativist, homophobic, misogynist and other fears, they've unified their useful idiots and kept them all pushing in the necessary direction to distract and dismay and delay change.

Now, at last, they have overreached themselves. Now they are becoming the wall.

The GOP, especially the Austin Taliban, is working diligently to ensure that the House will remain in Democratic hands after the 2022 election, shrewdly assisted by Speaker Pelosi who doesn't miss an opportunity to focus the outrage and demonstrate a tangible response.

They're doing their best to ensure an outright majority for Democrats in the Senate, which is looking likelier by the day.

And now the Supreme Court is publicly destroying the credibility of its own institutional structure.

If they keep going at this rate, when the dust clears in mid-November 2022, we could have:

a) A House majority
b) A Senate majority; and
c) Increasing support for Supreme Court reform.

So, should we interrupt them?

Might be a better use of our resources to spotlight that wall they're building, and make an electoral strategy of it.

speculatively,
Bright

[AndyS]

1. Please proceed . . .

Give them the rope they want.

[thucythucy]

2. You're assuming of course that the 2022 elections

will be free and fair. I frankly don't see how we can make such an assumption.

GOP craziness at the polls will be a given. In red states, look for legions of MAGAts to inundate blue leaning districts with "poll watchers" who will do everything they can to keep suspected Democrats from voting. This after voter purges of likely Democrats, and other shenanigans like moving polling places at the last minute, eliminating scores of polling places outright, etc. Everything they did in 2020, only magnified, and in many cases now sanctioned by the recently passed laws.

And if all that doesn't work, red state election boards--by then thoroughly purged of anyone with a shred of integrity, anyone who isn't a full bore Q-anon zealot--will simply declare some districts--those that go Democratic--as being "corrupted." They'll throw out those results, and what will we do to stop them? Take it to the Supreme Court?

Elections in blue states of course will be run as always, without any possibility of fraud determining or changing the outcome of any election.

Which means, all in all, that any red state Democrat can look forward at the least to months of litigation, or being defrauded outright of their win. While blue state Republican incumbents will probably be returned to office.

And there goes our House majority. I haven't done the math for the Senate, but nothing tells me that Senate races will be immune.

November 2020 to January 2021 was a first run through, and the GOP has been busy figuring out just which laws, regulations, boards and local officials interrupted their coup. Having identified where they went wrong, they've been busy setting us up for a 2022 in which dozens, maybe hundreds of elections that favor Democrats will be challenged.

It's becoming ever more clear to me that Republicans simply don't care if their policies are unpopular. They don't even care if a substantial portion of their base literally dies. Why should they? They have found other ways of "winning" elections.

[FoxNewsSucks]

3. That's exactly right, you beat me to it.

If not for the dirty tricks, they'd never win.

Fact is, they started calibrating the cheating and stealing over 20 years ago. They're now just doing the final fine-tuning to ensure they can take over and never worry about being removed.