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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Repugs Are Suppressing Their Own Vote.....
When you think about it the Repugs are actually suppressing their own vote with all their crazy conspiracy theories and their cult-like following of Trump.
With respect to the pandemic - most refuse to wear masks and won't get vaccinated. They also are opening up their States well before they should. [Note: Just when it looks like we're gaining ground on Covid - they open up the bars, restaurants, gyms, stadiums/arenas and other businesses and the numbers bad again.]
Many are going to wind up with Covid. Wind up being hospitalized and on a ventilator and dead. They are killing themselves off. Their numbers are dwindling.
And I got to believe that their efforts to pass voting laws in the name of fairer elections (rrrright) - will effect Repug voters as well and further keep their own voter numbers down.
Turning their nose up to new gun legislation isn't going to help them either. Bottom line I got to believe that having a gun puts one on the path to using it and either killing themselves, loved ones or friends and getting themselves in trouble with the law. They actually aren't any safer than any one else when it comes to mass shootings.
Insurrection will be putting a lot of them in jail and I got to believe that more and future attempts will be made to - insurrect - and get more of them in trouble with the law.
Somebody needs to ask both Repugs and Dems to define what it means to them to be 'patriotic'.
I bet that the definitions both sides give - will be 180 degrees opposite of the other.
This is just my opinion. I'm curious if anyone else thinks the same.
Time is definitely on our side, as the Nation grows more diverse, younger and more secular. Republicans know this and these recent restrictive laws are the last stage efforts of a dying Party to stay alive.
That is, thankfully, a dying philosophy.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)... are literally sympathizing with terrorist who wanted to stop democracy are ***NOT*** going to give up power once they get it back.
If they win in 22 its done then, they're going to do everything they can to make the US Belarus.
The kGQP isn't going to EXTEND voting access when the get back into federal power they will further suppress it for PoC and poor whites.
HR1 is that important, we're Spain circa 1933 if the kGQP wins congress again while Putin's Whore is not in jail.
Pepsidog
(6,252 posts)zaj
(3,433 posts)We all know the GOP covered up the Russian collusion. We watched the 2020 big lie. We all watched to coup. We are watching them try to cover that up.
Even many Dems don't seem to fully understand what the issue.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)... 1933 IINM before the NAZIs came in to help the right in that country.
It'll be harder for that to happen here but we're not far from the sentiment of the Spanish right; they weren't interested in democracy they kept getting their asses kicked by the left.
The left in Spain didn't realize the right was fighting for their existence so there was no way they were going without a war ... we're there IMHO and 1/6 was the start
zaj
(3,433 posts)I didn't know about spain. But I think we are only going to avoid a war in the coming decades by balkanization. But I'm not even sure how that might work here.
Mr.Bill
(24,104 posts)they can and probably will make Trump the Speaker of the House. Think about that possibility.
(You don't have to be a member of Congress to be Speaker.)
vercetti2021
(10,150 posts)People won't take it sitting down. It'll begin the second civil war. Which is what Putin wanted. America to tear itself apart from within.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)Beartracks
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bucolic_frolic
(42,676 posts)Capital flight happens for a reason. The wealthy always know what's coming.