If the shoe were on the other foot...

[byronius]

31. I've been contemplating the plethora of ways in which Republicans have denigrated the Constitution.

It's an attitude born of absolute contempt for democracy, and indicative of an intent to seize power at any cost.

My statement was intended to expand the focus of the original post. 'Shoe on the other foot' -- if their criminal advantages were reversed to benefit the Democrats, the union would cease to exist much as it already has. Democracy only exists when all citizens respect its requirements, and it is, as James Carville once pointed out, the only alternative to armed combat in the streets.

Karl Rove and Kris Kobach are playing games that may well destroy this nation and the human species. I don't consider the presidential race the only thing we've lost by traitorous, anti-democratic acts, and I think it's important to mention it.

When a Democrat has to win three times the number of votes to achieve parity with Republicans, it's just as destructive to this nation as the Russian knife in our hearts that is Donald Trump.