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In reply to the discussion: Can someone please explain to me why the Republican Party still enjoys [View all]True Blue Door
(2,969 posts)1. They control the media.
2. We passively echo their media control by reacting to their agenda rather than setting our own.
3. They gerrymander to a far more extreme degree than we do.
4. There are five fascist revolutionaries on the Supreme Court who regularly rewrite the Constitution to enhance GOP electoral chances every chance they get.
5. One of those decisions was annihilating campaign finance laws, so the rich - who overwhelmingly support the GOP - can buy elections and shout down their opponents with lies and propaganda.
6. They stop minorities from voting every chance they get, also with the help with court decisions.
7. They locate prisons in rural Red districts to inflate the population numbers, even though that population is neither voluntary nor voting.
8. From time to time they just straight up rig the vote count.
Since it's a power-interested party, if all of this was dealt with they would simply moderate in order to remain in the 30%-50% range. But along the way there would be massive defeats while they try to gain back credibility destroyed by their right-wing.
Radicals like they are can only win through force and fraud, and they deploy both of them constantly.