Concerns For Democracy Grow Ahead Of 2024 - The 11th Hour - MSNBC

[Rhiannon12866]

Although the next Presidential election is still years away, warning signs show efforts are already underway to subvert democracy. Eugene Robinson and Bill Kristol join to discuss. Aired on 12/29/2021.

[magicguido]

1. and Merrick Garland is Sleeping.

[panfluteman]

7. That's Not Exactly What Merrick Garland is Doing...

More accurately, he's hiding and cowering down in the basement, nervously biting his nails to the nub, and sticking his finger up to see which way the political wind is blowing... Come out of hiding, Merrick, and take a stand against anti-democracy sedition by the GOP!

[BlueTsunami2018]

2. Concerns.

Apparently, there’s no way to stop the fascist train from rolling right over us. There’s a lot of concern and complaining but no one is actually doing anything about it.

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Someone here yesterday suggested appointing a special prosecutor

That sounds good to me. I know that we have the January 6th Committee, but from what we've been hearing, it looks like there are enough perpetrators to keep everybody busy.

[orangecrush]

4. Concerns for those attempting to destroy democracy grow

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Like people are going to roll over and take it.

I don't think so.

[gab13by13]

5. The Nazi Supreme Court

will sanction it. This court believes that states have absolute power to run their elections. All the fascists have to do is win back the House in 2022.

[orangecrush]

6. And we

Will fight them.

[panfluteman]

8. This is What REALLY Worries Me About the Future of Our Country!

The Democrats came back into power, and instead of getting to the heart of the issue, which was efforts by the Republicans to subvert democracy while they were out of power, what do they do? They obsequiously try to curry favor by playing Santa Claus and passing alll this legislation that gives relief and goodies to the American people - not that the American people don't need relief after a devastating COVID pandemic and the hard times it brought, but they got their basic priorities wrong, in my opinion. They should have been much more prompt and aggressive in passing legislation to protect and preserve voting rights. I can assure you that if the Republicans come back into power, the first thing they will do is to pass draconian measures that will solidify and make their un-democratic power grab more lasting and permanent - and to heck with giving the people anything or catering to their needs. This whole idea of passing legislation to give goodies and relief to the people to curry favor with them is ass-backwards, in my opinion. There really shouldn't need to be any excuses for standing up and passing legislation to protect democracy and the right to vote. All American citizens should inherently understand the fundamental importance of ensuring that their voting voices are heard. And the fact that so many Americans on the other side of the aisle don't see this, and fall for the misleading partisan rhetoric of protecting America from the terrible, even demonic liberals, is another thing that frightens me terribly about the future of our nation. After all, the supreme legacy of our nation is the idea of democracy, and a government in which the voice of the people - all the people - count, and are heard; without that, we won't even have a country anymore. It's sooo frightening that so much of the voting populace is too dumbed down to see this, and gets lost in the ugly partisan rhetoric ginned up by the GOP these days, which is, in reality, nothing more than a front or cover / pretext for stealing our democracy and giving themsleves exclusive, autocratic control of the country.