The midterms will be decided by swing voters ready to reward the GOP for trying to kill them

[Nevilledog]

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My faith in democracy is being tested. Three public schools in New Haven were locked down Monday and today after a gun report in one and threats of violence in two more. These were part of wave of threats against Connecticut schools that came just days after a high schooler in Michigan shot four students to pieces. (Local authorities are investigating, but the lockdowns ended without incident.)

This morning, I read about the Republicans planning to use “education” as the platform from which to reclaim white suburban voters and thus retake the Congress. “Republicans say their message is resonating among parents, whose frustrations have boiled up during the coronavirus pandemic, and now include the quality of classwork, mask mandates, and transgender rights,” according to Bloomberg. It worked in Virginia. The Republicans think it can work around the country.

Kevin McCarthy, the House minority leader, is feeling so good about the GOP’s chances next fall that he’s crafting what he calls a “Parents’ Bill of Rights” for campaigning. The idea is that parents should be the ultimate authorities over their child’s education. That might sound principled except that, according to the Republican view, such authority ends where the rights of guns-everywhere begins. That might sound noble if not for the fact that gun owners in America have a higher claim to government protection than parents with children.

Things like this get me to thinking the founders were right. Democracy is its own worse enemy. It gives degenerates and fools equal power in deciding the republic’s business. I mean, what do you do with people who are more afraid of totally made-up threats (“critical race theory”) than of totally real threats, such as an irresponsible mom and dad buying their teen son a semi-automatic handgun for Christmas before the boy takes it to high school to murder and injure his classmates. What do you do with people who look at the face of death and shrug?

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[pecosbob]

1. I can live with that...frankly I hope the GOP eats itself.

[leftstreet]

2. The Democrats will need some bold legislation n/t

[Sneederbunk]

3. The midterms will be decided by Dems who stay home.

[AZProgressive]

6. I think it will be decided by partisan gerrymandering

Personally.

[Volaris]

8. Then were probably screwed tbh.

[moondust]

4. White male supremacy "trumps" everything.

Just ask these guys:



Acquitted by an all white, male jury in 1955 after they kidnapped, tortured and killed Chicago 14-year-old Emmett Till after a white woman said he had harassed her at a store.

Emmett Till: US closes investigation without charges

MAGA!

Notice all the diversity in that picture of Kevvie.

[jimfields33]

5. I'd love to see their registration card for voting. Throw it in Repugs face.

[Walleye]

7. Parents' bill of rights? Like for example the Crumbleys