Democracy dies by degrees and the republican party has made it abundantly clear that they are...
...planning the death of American democracy by a thousand legislative cuts.
The response to the other guy losing is every fascist authoritarian racist nativist wannabees wet dream. Over 360 bills in 47 states undermining the electoral systems to a huge degree. I mean come on. Want to protest systemic racism in Florida and a Nazi runs you over and kills you, nothing to see here folks. First amendment be damned. Want to vote in Georgia? Good luck with that. Attempts to purge voter rolls in Arizona is paused for now, but only cause the big lie freaks in the legislature felt it did not go far enough.
Let’s pretend the insurrection did not happen
Let’s repeat the big lie ad nauseum to undermine faith in how voting shit works
Let’s limit the power of election officials
Let’s give ourselves the power to overturn election results
Let’s steam roll through legislation to silence and disempower those who have a problem with male, pale, stale, fascist, lying racist fuckers clinging onto EVERYTHING.
They will happily see the great experiment die rather than cede any control at all to anyone who does not think and act JUST LIKE THEM.
As Steven Levitsky so eloquently puts is
“This is how elected autocrats subvert democracy—packing and “weaponizing” the courts and other neutral agencies, buying off the media and the private sector (or bullying them into silence), and rewriting the rules of politics to tilt the playing field against opponents. The tragic paradox of the electoral route to authoritarianism is that democracy’s assassins use the very institutions of democracy—gradually, subtly, and even legally—to kill it.”
They need to be stopped.
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