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"BEWARE" (Original Post) kpete Feb 2017 OP
Thanks to gerrymandering Freddie Feb 2017 #1
When R voters wake up, gerrymandering will be a trap The Blue Flower Feb 2017 #2
They aren't asleep...they're in a coma SHRED Feb 2017 #5
A rightwing fb friend, because of animal rights connections, of mine, went on SS recently. MoonRiver Feb 2017 #6
That'll be great Kimchijeon Feb 2017 #12
If it can't we're cooked. mountain grammy Feb 2017 #3
+1 uponit7771 Feb 2017 #11
This would be true Calculating Feb 2017 #4
Might be an interesting approach to start pointing out calimary Feb 2017 #9
If only. old guy Feb 2017 #7
Interesting---that's a young bald eagle. BlancheSplanchnik Feb 2017 #8
They have ways of dealing with that nasty voting thing we do. Dark n Stormy Knight Feb 2017 #10

MoonRiver

(36,926 posts)
6. A rightwing fb friend, because of animal rights connections, of mine, went on SS recently.
Sat Feb 11, 2017, 12:38 PM
Feb 2017

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.

Calculating

(2,957 posts)
4. This would be true
Sat Feb 11, 2017, 12:29 PM
Feb 2017

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)
9. Might be an interesting approach to start pointing out
Sat Feb 11, 2017, 01:49 PM
Feb 2017

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?

BlancheSplanchnik

(20,219 posts)
8. Interesting---that's a young bald eagle.
Sat Feb 11, 2017, 01:01 PM
Feb 2017

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)
10. They have ways of dealing with that nasty voting thing we do.
Sun Feb 12, 2017, 03:32 AM
Feb 2017

I hope we can find effective countermeasures!

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