When you consider how the GOP is relentlessly and diligently attacking democracy on a broad front...

[Girard442]

...am I the only one who thinks no way the Rufous Doofus has got the intelligence, the persistence, attention span, or the cojones to orchestrate such a campaign?

[Walleye]

1. Putin is the godfather

[True Blue American]

2. No, this started long before

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Trump. We have a right wing Supreme Court that has been handing down right wing decisions for years, starting with the Rehnquist Court. Civil rights has been on a downward slide ever since then. Rehnquist started his career putting blacks off the voting rolls in Texas.

We need to eith expand the Court, get some moderates or hope a few retire or kick the bucket.

I know I sound petty, at this point I am.

[Budi]

3. Nice that you narrowed the problem down to "moderates"

"We need to eith expand the Court, get some moderates or hope a few retire or kick the bucket."

It's not Moderates running a full blown campaign against the Democratic Party from within.
Just sayin.

[True Blue American]

7. That is why we need to

Change the Court, one way or another. They are destroying our Liberty, piece by piece.

They will vote against the OSHA mandate, too. No matter how many will die. OSHA has protected the worker as long as I can remember. The Court protects the elite!

[Budi]

10. Who's destroying our liberty? Moderates? Like Joe Biden??

Maybe ditch the labelling pols into groups. Who the heck decides what 'group' a pol belongs in, anyway.
I'd prefer to call them middle or fringe.
Middle is the point of balance.


The court was lost when the fringe knocked the point of balance off kilter.

[True Blue American]

11. We are discussing the Supreme Court.

Joe Manchin is in a world of his own. I have no idea what his end game is.

[Budi]

14. You addressed 'Moderates' along with the subject of the SC

I addressed your statement.
The broadbrush attack is why.

"We need to eith expand the Court, get some moderates or hope a few retire or kick the bucket"

[True Blue American]

16. Joe Manchin is no moderate.

I will say no more as he is still a Democrat.

[uponit7771]

13. +1

[marked50]

4. This has been a long, planned program by lots of people and organizations

You can add ALEC, John Birch Society, University of Chicago economists, Federalist Society, numerous oligarchs and many others to this list. It has been coordinated over many years. Orange guy is only a tool in this effort, not capable of planning such a thing on this broad of a scale.

[rampartc]

5. trump is a front man for some cold bazztads

i also do not believe lindell designed the my pillow.

[True Blue American]

12. You mean he did not shred

That foam in a heroin haze?

[Tommymac]

6. Movement Conservatism has its roots in the 1950's, at the least.

But this war has gone on since 1770, at least.

Tories have always been around. Today we call them conservatives. Most want to live in an authoritarian world because they are intellectually lazy and want to be told what to do.

[JHB]

15. Bingo! Thanks for putting this at the feet of those truly responsible.

Particularly because I don't have time right now to go on at length, and I don't do "short" on this subject.

[True Blue American]

8. They fear this.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/06/five-new-bills-aim-to-break-up-big-tech-platforms-force-them-to-play-nice/

Note, I am getting emails from Fox News complaining that 98% of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube employees donate to Democrats. The whine was that those companies were censuring Republicans, but not Democrats.

[Irish_Dem]

9. He is a cunning, delusional sociopath who makes his broad wishes known.

He attracts ruthless, cruel, sociopaths who work out the details and carry out his wishes.