Originally posted by: Charles Higgins
That destroy democracy charge emerged directly from the DNC campaign committees, and surfaced prominently as a public campaign argument from the D candidates within the past three to four weeks during a time when the routinely wrong polling data was suggesting a so-called 'red wave'. If you've supported that position all along, that's your choice.
What is ' democracy' and how do you define it? A condensed description might be a government system that is representative of the entire citizen population of the country and one in which all voices regardless of party affiliation are heard via free and fair elections. I'm supportive of such a system and that description..sans corruptive influence.
They just called Fetterman the winner in PA..over Oz (assuming no kerfuffles). So currently, the Senate
situation is largely down to Nevada, Arizona, and Georgia (with a potential runoff in Georgia on the current horizon as you suggested), outside any additional unanticipated race surprises.
I say let it play out and let the chips fall where they may. We can alternately try to piss over cars after the outcome is truly known.
A fundamental tenet of democracy is that every person's vote counts equally to every other person's, and that is emphatically NOT the case in America now. What's worse, though, is that the RepubliQ are actively seeking to WORSEN that wrong. So yes, I consider our democracy in genuine danger. I hold that viewpoint regardless of what messaging the Democrats use. My concerns predate the election season.
We will, of course, see RepubliQ efforts to invalidate/overturn the election results, as we did in 2020. That, also, is fundamentally undemocratic. For instance, Trump-bitch Kari Lake, who got her ass kicked, says she will throw herself on the floor and kick her legs in the air.
The only element of the election that worries me is that it was a cold slap in the face for the Republicans, telling them that they have to de-Trump themselves. I would almost have preferred that they remained loyal Orange Pusbag lackeys.
Oh, and the Democrats did very, very well in governor and secretary of state contests, which will make it MUCH harder for the RepubliQ to attempt to overturn election results, now and in 2024.
