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jodymarie aimee

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Sun Aug 19, 2018, 06:05 PM Aug 2018

John Dean: "Democracy really could die just a few months from now." Think Nov. 6!


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A chilling point from Paul Krugman: “I don’t think most political commentators have grasped how deep the rot goes. I don’t think they understand, or at any rate admit to themselves, that democracy really could die just a few months from now.” Think Nov. 6!
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John Dean: "Democracy really could die just a few months from now." Think Nov. 6! (Original Post) jodymarie aimee Aug 2018 OP
Democrats MUST retake the House in November. GOTV! dalton99a Aug 2018 #1
I keep wondering why they don't see this. They're in the voting Squinch Aug 2018 #2
12% I believe is the amount BigmanPigman Aug 2018 #4
I believe Dean on the right and Krugman on the left are right. Hortensis Aug 2018 #3

Squinch

(50,949 posts)
2. I keep wondering why they don't see this. They're in the voting
Sun Aug 19, 2018, 06:14 PM
Aug 2018

systems of many states we know of, and God knows how many we don't.

We have to win by margins big enough that they can't fudge the results.

BigmanPigman

(51,593 posts)
4. 12% I believe is the amount
Sun Aug 19, 2018, 08:53 PM
Aug 2018

that Bill Maher told a guest a week ago. We need a 12% margin to overcome the GOP gerrymandering, voter restrictions and the voting irregularities from hacking. That seems like a reasonable estimate to me.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
3. I believe Dean on the right and Krugman on the left are right.
Sun Aug 19, 2018, 06:44 PM
Aug 2018

Many forces are coming together to force authoritarian government on those who don't vote to stop it. Various studies have shown support for neonazis, fascism, nationalism, way too much equality. For putting an end to a century of social conservative losses at the polls. We wouldn't be the first democracy, or the 10th, that voted to destroy itself.

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