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UCmeNdc

(9,655 posts) Fri Dec 11, 2020, 05:43 AM Dec 2020

The GOP is up to something. They are showing you who they are. They do not believe in Democracy.

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Fmr. Republican strategist Steve Schmidt joins Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss how some House Republicans refusing to accept that Biden won means “we’re one election away from losing the country to people who do not believe in democracy.”

It is the breaking of the system. They do not love or believe in democracy. One person one vote.

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The GOP is up to something. They are showing you who they are. They do not believe in Democracy. (Original Post) UCmeNdc Dec 2020 OP

Bunch of nasty assed smelly trolls, we should not coddle the stupid it will serve America no good uponit7771 Dec 2020 #1

we have known that for quite some time Skittles Dec 2020 #2

I think mostly they both fear and see opportunity with Trump's base Buckeyeblue Dec 2020 #3

An authoritarian takeover, "if they can keep it." Hortensis Dec 2020 #4

So sharp, so early. jaxexpat Dec 2020 #5

Exhausted myself and still have to make breakfast. :) Hortensis Dec 2020 #8

Time for some modern day McCarty-ism! Aussie105 Dec 2020 #6

They never have quakerboy Dec 2020 #7

uponit7771

(93,532 posts)

1. Bunch of nasty assed smelly trolls, we should not coddle the stupid it will serve America no good

Reply to UCmeNdc (Original post)

Fri Dec 11, 2020, 05:47 AM

Dec 2020

Skittles

(171,715 posts)

2. we have known that for quite some time

Reply to UCmeNdc (Original post)

Fri Dec 11, 2020, 06:38 AM

Dec 2020

well, at least those of us with critical thinking skills

Buckeyeblue

(6,352 posts)

3. I think mostly they both fear and see opportunity with Trump's base

Reply to UCmeNdc (Original post)

Fri Dec 11, 2020, 06:53 AM

Dec 2020

This whole show is about appeasement. Ted Cruz and others are aligning themselves for 2024. They will clamor for the Trump base.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

4. An authoritarian takeover, "if they can keep it."

Reply to UCmeNdc (Original post)

Fri Dec 11, 2020, 07:02 AM

Dec 2020

A little riff on Benjamin Franklin's comment at the birth of our democratic republic.

jaxexpat

(7,794 posts)

5. So sharp, so early.

Reply to Hortensis (Reply #4)

Fri Dec 11, 2020, 07:13 AM

Dec 2020

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

8. Exhausted myself and still have to make breakfast. :)

Reply to jaxexpat (Reply #5)

Fri Dec 11, 2020, 08:12 AM

Dec 2020

Aussie105

(7,920 posts)

6. Time for some modern day McCarty-ism!

Reply to UCmeNdc (Original post)

Fri Dec 11, 2020, 07:20 AM

Dec 2020

Member of the GOP? A Trump voter?

You are charged with amoral, anti-American activities. Unconstitutional sedition and undermining the proper governing of the country!
How plead you?
PROVE you are not guilty!

(Hey, if Trump's lawyers can bring forth accusations of vote rigging without any burden of proof, so can Democratic Party lawyers! That door swings both ways!)

quakerboy

(14,868 posts)

7. They never have

Reply to UCmeNdc (Original post)

Fri Dec 11, 2020, 08:05 AM

Dec 2020

To be fair to them, this country has never been about democracy. The existence of the senate and electoral college is proof of that

But literally as long as ive been alive(I assume longer, but I wasnt there to testify to it), RW adherents have been pointing out that we are a republic, not a democracy, and sighing wistfully for the days when the states got to pick their senators, not us voting rabble.

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