David Faris. Fixing the country, and making a democratic super majority.

[NewDem17]

This is the type of thing we need to be focusing on.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/04/why-democrats-should-rig-the-senate-and-pack-the-supreme-court.html

David Faris gives a good interview about his book, and how we can take back this country. It's time abandon all hopes of cooperation and begin playing dirty. We can through the right steps keep the republicans out of every branch of Congress for the rest of this countries history and it's all legal.

The number one step is breaking up a few states, using key demographics to make sure they remain solidly blue, giving us the majority in the electoral college, ensuring no republican could ever again win.

Second step is voting rights. No more voter ID, ensuring no one can ever have voting rights taken away through felonies or crime, automatic voter registration, and a voting holiday so everyone can get out there and vote no matter what. A true 100% turn out in voting.

I highly suggest everyone read the interview and the book. This is what must be done to fix this country. We must at dirty to ensure that no matter what republicans can never again hold office within the white house or supreme Court, and ensure that we create seats within Congress to overpower republican states.

[awesomerwb1]

1. I've always said we should have a National Holiday for voting

It's absolutely stupid to have elections during the week close to winter time. Most countries, developed and underdeveloped, have them on weekends.

If having them on a week day is a must, at least make it a national holiday, a day to celebrate democracy.

How do you "break up a few states"?

[NewDem17]

2. Like California proposed.

Like California proposed. Break it up into 3 new states via voters, making sure to keep major democratic strongholds in each new state.

This would create 3 new, Democrat voting states that would then overpower the republicans ability to counter it.

It could be done with any states that has 2 or more major cities with enough populace to outvote the rural areas.

[rainin]

4. If California becomes 3, what stops the Fed gov't from refusing to annex two new states? n/t

[The River]

5. "California" Didn't Propose It

A bunch of whack jobs living in CA proposed it. They have been pushing it since the 30's. It never has passed. It won't pass this time.

[mcar]

8. "Democrat voting states?"

[rainin]

3. Supermajority plus 2

+1 to account for the Leibermans
+2 so the tie vote can't singularly decide up or down for the whole country

I'm in!

[CrispyQ]

6. The dems are gonna have to do something different, cuz the GOP has shown that they have no respect

for rule of law or tradition.

What convinces you that we’ve reached a moment where playing dirty, as you say, is necessary?

David Faris: I think the breaking point for me personally was the Merrick Garland fiasco, which was really an unprecedented abuse of the Constitution’s lack of clarity about what “advise and consent” actually means. And it was the culmination of 20, 25 years of increasingly hardball tactics coming out of the Republican Party. Those tactics started at the fringe and then became mainstream over time. In the early 2000s, they redrew Texas’ congressional districts in the middle of the decade—this kind of stuff. But that obstruction really got out of hand during the Obama administration. It turned the public against the president’s party and it delivered all three branches of government to the GOP. And I think it’s just not feasible for the Democrats to continue to play by most of the rules—even the unwritten rules—when their counterparts across the aisle are not doing so.

McConnell deciding to hold up a SCOTUS nom with almost a year to go was a travesty! They do whatever the fuck they want & the dems play by the rules. The dems dropped the ball & now the GOP has their boot on our neck & the dems will need massive turnout & margins to win.

[dameatball]

7. If Virginia can have a "Lee/Jackson" holiday, then surely a "Voting Day" is not too much to ask.

Yep, state employees get a day off each year to celebrate those glorious heroes who tried to destroy the country. I think it was done to appease all the folks who were outraged that Martin Luther King got a holiday.