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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGeorgia Republican enraged at court order making it easier for people to vote
On Monday, Republican candidate Karen Handel told her supporters that the partisan decision will boil your blood.
https://thinkprogress.org/georgia-registration-order-5b8b12f30fbb?source=collection_home---4------0-----------
Someone help me understand why encouraging democracy is something republicans hate.
I truly want to understand this. Do any of them believe in democracy?
Turbineguy
(37,329 posts)If democracy gives them power, then they believe in democracy.
Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)winetourdriver01
(1,154 posts)No, they don't believe in democracy. Not since the numbers started turning against them.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)NO
Gothmog
(145,231 posts)The GOP was trying to steal this race and got caught
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)is about "one of us". She says Jon Ossoff isn't "one of us". Yep, that's it. I know because I'm in Georgia 6, which contains some of the most diverse communities in the country.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Kber
(5,043 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,654 posts)Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)We have a cancer in our society: republicans, Koch, and these organizations listed in the clip are the leading sickness.
They really do have something wrong with them.
Wounded Bear
(58,654 posts)JudyM
(29,241 posts)Aristus
(66,351 posts)LonePirate
(13,420 posts)We need to start countering these voter suppression tactics as un-American.
Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)LonePirate
(13,420 posts)The term undemocratic automatically implies something is pro-Republican to a lot of people. The terms un-American or unpatriotic or unconstitutional are better ones to use in our messaging.
Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)Have the correct meme language is key.
Iggo
(47,552 posts)babylonsister
(171,065 posts)see who was denied registering and you have the answer because it most likely wasn't anyone who would vote rethug.
MicaelS
(8,747 posts)They believe in the US being a Republic. That means only certain folks are allowed to vote.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)No.
They have revealed themselves to be Nazis at heart.
They do not want any sort of democracy.
They want the 4th Reich.
CottonBear
(21,596 posts)It is that simple.
They are the worst kind of fundamentalist Xtian hypocrites.
They are out and out evil.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)No. Not the kind of democracy that means anything. Not the kind that encourages voting by making it easy to vote.