Simple explainer on why democracy in America will lose, unless Democrats wake up
This is why Coons’ mania for “Bipartisanship Above the Republic Itself” is so pernicious and so unforgivable.
Using a whiteboard, author and Ohio politician David Pepper posted a video (linked here) on his Twitter account describing “two sides of an epic struggle in America right now.” But each side is fighting for something different, “and that’s why one side is winning.”
Pepper explains the “Elections vs Democracy” battle in simple terms. Basically, the one side (Democrats) “views politics as a battle over elections,” while the other side (Republicans) “is battling democracy itself.” And of course if you “view the battle differently,” you’re going use a different set of strategies.
- The Democratic strategy to win elections: focus on swing states and federal elections.
- The Republicans strategy to demolish democracy: go “far deeper,” and fight on a state level, across the whole dang country.
Pepper —whose book Laboratories of Autocracy calls for those who value democracy to wake up and smell the gunpowder — says that until the Elections side sees the big picture and learns to fight everywhere, “at the roots of democracy,” the battling-Democracy side (as in MAGA fascists) will always win. – via boinboig
I think this knits it al together. I’ve always asked “Why don’t they see it? Why aren’t they joining the fight? ”
It is obvious that corporatist Democratic Party isn’t fighting because it has always done well hiding behind the GOP’s apron while claiming to be more socially aware, and slightly less racist.
That’s why Democrats like Carper, LBR and Coons actually view liberals as the enemy rather than co-combatants in a struggle for “the soul of the country” as Biden says.
If we are beyond the point of no return I guess it only remains to be seen whether the Radical Center will be treated kindly by the GOP’s inevitable hegemony. They are betting they will be. And the GOP will need some kind of Potemkin village of opposition to maintain the illusion of being a representative democracy, so they may be right.
We’ll see, I suppose. But if history is a guide, the furnace of right wing repression and hatred always requires more fuel, so while some nobody like me might be the first to be consumed, I don’t think Coons would be as well protected by his money and obsequiousness as he thinks he will be.
“But if history is a guide, the furnace of right wing repression and hatred always requires more fuel” -jason330
You mean fuel like the poll you have at the bottom of your site titled ‘How can we hold unvaccinated dipshits accountable?’ That poll? 😂
So…What’s your take on how can we hold unvaccinated dipshits accountable?
Or are you an unvaccinated dipshit?