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(9,273 posts)We have to win by 75% in some places. It CAN be done.
The Blue Flower
(5,444 posts)nt
SHRED
(28,136 posts)No waking up that I can detect.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)He just posted something blasting Congress, meaning the Repukes, for trying to end SS, as an entitlement, while keeping all their boondoggle benefits. Yes, I do think there is hope that they will wake up.
Kimchijeon
(1,606 posts)mountain grammy
(26,646 posts)Calculating
(2,957 posts)Except gerrymandering and vote suppression ensure republicans only need around 30-40% of the vote to maintain power. Republicans have been much better at rigging the game than the Dems have been.
calimary
(81,443 posts)that the ONLY way the GOP can win is to cheat. It's now TWO presidential elections where the CON "won" where they had to cheat to win the White House. First dubya. Now trump.
What a shame that the ONLY way they seem to be able to win, anywhere, is to make sure those who would vote against them aren't able to vote.
What does that say about the "viability" and majority "validity" of their ideas, their policies, their worldview, when they have to KEEP PEOPLE FROM VOTING so that only their own team can do so.
And why shouldn't we be pointing that out?
Shouldn't we be pointing out that if you have to artificially manipulate and force-sculpt the boundaries of your district so it looks like a line drawing of an octopus, because it ONLY includes people you know are on YOUR team, so the game is effectively RIGGED?
Isn't that what would normally be called CHEATING???
And if more people oppose what you're doing and what you're proposing and what you're pushing, why do you continue to push it? Shouldn't you maybe LISTEN to that, and respond accordingly? Instead of "solving the problem" by trying merely to silence the voices of that opposition? What kind of "solution" is that???
If you guys want to win, you know you have to cheat? You have to RIG THE GAME to ensure that you win? What kind of legitimacy does that confer upon your so-called "win" then?
old guy
(3,283 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)And looks thick around the neck, like a female! (Males are smaller, lighter, with more slender necks.)
Young Women!!! Don't let the thuglicans get away!!!
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)I hope we can find effective countermeasures!