Inside the re-emergence of the Old Confederacy

[justaprogressive]

Increasingly, the Republican Party is consolidating its power in a minority of states and turning them into little laboratories of neo-fascism. This is tough on people in those states — particularly people who are Black, queer, or female — but what is its larger impact on America?

“Power tends to corrupt,” Lord Acton famously noted, “and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

This is the great danger at the state level for both American political parties as the GOP sinks deeper and deeper into its mire of regionalism, violence, racism, homophobia, misogyny, gun deaths, pollution, and victimhood, led by corrupt politicians like Trump, DeSantis, Kemp, and Abbott.

Reestablishing a national political dialogue like we had before the Trump presidency is thus now a singular challenge facing our nation, particularly since we’re one of only 7 democracies in the world that essentially forces a 2-party system through first-past-the-post winner-take-all elections.

https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/inside-the-re-emergence-of-the-old-confederacy/

[Historic NY]

1. As long as BLUE STATE dollars go to them they will continue,

most of these states cannot survive on their own state economic structures.

[SouthernDem4ever]

2. What the rich donors to these weird causes seem to forget

They have created a monster they will not be able to control as evidenced by the Koch foundation now trying to get rid of trumpism. It's too late for them and it will come back to bite them sooner or later. When you promote fascism and anti-democratic ideals, the rule of law which would have protected you will be gone. Every judge should also realize this too. They will be ineffectual and sidelined, if not completely deleted from the equation.

[Aristus]

3. Then we'll kick their disease-riddled, in-bred asses again!

One of the things that has consistently given me hope since the rise of weaponized conservative Republicanism starting in 1994 is the axiom: "Every form of evil contains the seeds of its own destruction."

The GOP's relentless drumbeat for oppression, bigotry, totalitarianism, and violence as public policy is inspiring people who previously avoided politics, and motivating entire generations who had been written off as politically apathetic. They're not going to stand for their shit anymore.

[LiberaBlueDem]

4. We survived Nixon

We survivied Reagan and the bushes. 45 was another bump in the road, but it has awoken many who were politically passive. We'll see next year, just 15 months from now, how many are woke from their head in the sand postures.

[lees1975]

5. Carrying on the traditions and the political order of the old confederacy

is the Southern Baptist Convention.

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2023/09/why-critical-race-theory-enrages.html