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Today, the Republican Party controls the Presidency, the House, the Senate, and, are on the verge of controlling the Supreme Court.
Those who control everything can do anything they want to do. They don't need to explain anything to anyone. Kings/Emperors/Pharaohs/Shahs/"Great Leaders," and all those who assume some bullshit title that puts them in charge of everything, are either "benevolent leaders", or malicious pricks. Whichever title they hold, they are in total control.
At present, Trump is a malicious prick who thinks he is in total control. And the reason he believes this is because the Republican Party is a criminal organization that is allowing him to do "crazy stuff." The reality is that Republicans think they can get everything they've always wanted, while letting him do crazy shit that they don't care about.
They may get to own the Supreme Court. They may even get to hold on to the House and Senate in November because of their gerrymandered districts, their voter suppression tactics, their "scrubbing" of voter rolls, and their willingness to steal elections no matter who gives a shit.
If we Dems show up in big enough numbers, we may have a chance to stop them. We may get control of the House and, in our wildest dreams, the Senate.
But the Republicans have stacked the game against us before it even started.
So here's my point. If we can't take over the House, at a minimum, and perhaps the Senate, what do we do then?
This is not a casual question. Our country and the very concept of democracy is being destroyed by Republicans. And if we can't put a stop to it through their pre-rigged vote tactics, what are we prepared to do?
Ideas? Suggestions? A path to salvage what we believe to be our freedoms?
C'mon, let's hear you on this issue. After all, we're talking about American democracy.
qazplm135
(7,447 posts)is probably not to say "it's all rigged and nothing we do matters."
We can win every lever of power if we turn out to vote and get others to turn out to vote.
strangedaysindeed
(226 posts)They're just building a frame around their fascist state.
We are no longer a united anything.
Funtatlaguy
(10,856 posts)awesomerwb1
(4,256 posts)Use your time to help get Dems elected. Donate what you can afford to get Dems elected. Help Dems vote.
Stay positive, stay/get active.
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procon
(15,805 posts)There's an infamous quote from Karl Rove, "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality."
Republicans and their wealthy allies have been busy creating their own reality for decades. They have their own versions of news, their separate religions, their version of patriotism, their own education system, their own interpretations of science, their own experts, their own, social norms and notions of equality, their own laws and legislation, etc, etc. There's no undoing everything they've sunk their hooks into, they've brought us a new fascist state with the wealthiest few controlling the mass of serfs who labor to make the rich richer.
global1
(25,169 posts)We need to have the most American People ever in any election in the U.S. - come out and vote.
All the voter suppression; gerrymandering; cheating and stealing votes; and Russian interference can't possibly counteract a historic turnout of voters for the Midterms.
Make the Midterms Historic!!!!
GOTV!!! In historic numbers.
Tarc
(10,472 posts)This isn't a banana republic.
Cyrano
(15,023 posts)Banana Republics aren't born. They're made by malicious people who seize control and then do whatever they want to do, whenever they want to do it, and to whomever they want to do it to.
And we are perhaps just one election from being there.