I agree with what you are saying but in today's political world, it is literally impossible to reverse those ideas. Our electorate has become too uneducated (purposely) and too easy to manipulate. Not all of it but enough to allow the republicans to hold a lot of power plus a significant part of the judiciary system.
I agree with what you are saying but in today's political world, it is literally impossible to reverse those ideas. Our electorate has become too uneducated (purposely) and too easy to manipulate. Not all of it but enough to allow the republicans to hold a lot of power plus a significant part of the judiciary system.
Yes, the political process for holding onto our Republic and Democracy IS harder these days, in part because of the loss of understanding among our electorate [diminished education about a citizenтАЩs civic responsibility to be informed?], and the ease with which people can be seduced by online demagoguery. The Internet is our little Information Golem that can too easily be turned against us with Entertaining Screens that keep us from seeing the world in front of our faces.
That means we work harder тАж giving up is what the Right wants the Left to do тАж. We do not cede the territory тАж
Oh, we keep fighting but I know things like overturning citizens' united right now is not possible. If Biden had to replace Austin right now, he'd probably have difficulty get senate confirmation. Republicans control too much right now.
And those are some of the things that need to be addressed. In the Senate, the faux filibuster has tied Democratic agendas up in knots for ages. Giving the majority party leader essentially the full and unchallenged option to decide what comes before the body for a vote is how we got the cockeyed SCOTUS we have now тАж Same for the House. Placing too much unchallenged power in the hands of a party that has a one-vote majority тАФ and giving it to a single member of that party тАФ is wrong.
Of course, if we didnтАЩt have a skewed Electoral College in the first place, we would not have a Minority Party in the country holding Majority status in Congress, so тАж.
There are a few things that need to be changed тАФ and thinking that we will not change them because we hope to use them to our OWN advantage at some time in the future is NOT a position of integrityтАж Our government needs to work betterтАж
Yes, that means electing people who think more like us {and the majority of Americans}, and doing the right thing when we have a chanceтАж
I agree with what you are saying but in today's political world, it is literally impossible to reverse those ideas. Our electorate has become too uneducated (purposely) and too easy to manipulate. Not all of it but enough to allow the republicans to hold a lot of power plus a significant part of the judiciary system.
Yes, the political process for holding onto our Republic and Democracy IS harder these days, in part because of the loss of understanding among our electorate [diminished education about a citizenтАЩs civic responsibility to be informed?], and the ease with which people can be seduced by online demagoguery. The Internet is our little Information Golem that can too easily be turned against us with Entertaining Screens that keep us from seeing the world in front of our faces.
That means we work harder тАж giving up is what the Right wants the Left to do тАж. We do not cede the territory тАж
Oh, we keep fighting but I know things like overturning citizens' united right now is not possible. If Biden had to replace Austin right now, he'd probably have difficulty get senate confirmation. Republicans control too much right now.
And those are some of the things that need to be addressed. In the Senate, the faux filibuster has tied Democratic agendas up in knots for ages. Giving the majority party leader essentially the full and unchallenged option to decide what comes before the body for a vote is how we got the cockeyed SCOTUS we have now тАж Same for the House. Placing too much unchallenged power in the hands of a party that has a one-vote majority тАФ and giving it to a single member of that party тАФ is wrong.
Of course, if we didnтАЩt have a skewed Electoral College in the first place, we would not have a Minority Party in the country holding Majority status in Congress, so тАж.
There are a few things that need to be changed тАФ and thinking that we will not change them because we hope to use them to our OWN advantage at some time in the future is NOT a position of integrityтАж Our government needs to work betterтАж
Yes, that means electing people who think more like us {and the majority of Americans}, and doing the right thing when we have a chanceтАж