@Lightfighter Even if we expanded the court and ended gerrymandering right this second, we’re looking at 10-20 years at minimum for anything to work through. In the meantime, obviously still vote.
Those are just circumstances. Republicans have been doing this since Reagan. I’m sure you know when he got elected so expect that long to fix it. My decades is generous, really.
I agree wholeheartedly.
This is not enough and takes too long.
This is why my political reform agenda comprises more actionable items and should have more "bang:"
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I know.
But the target/aim/agenda must be clear.
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You are absolutely right.
Expectations must be realistic.
Before the midterms, most things could have been realistic if the anachronistic and anti-democratic (Senate Rule" of the filibuster had been abolished.
IDK if you read "Master of the Senate" (#LBS's time in the Senate.) He reformed the ancient structures of this branch of Congress after decades of stagnation.
If you don't dream big, achievements can be mediocre at best.
Anything is...
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@Heimdall @Lightfighter @TonyStark
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...possible.
Maybe the fast-food ketchup-throwing orange misogynistic #TFG will be the first one to leave the stage?
Be it b/c of failing health (a couch potato marked by obesity vs. a #POTUS working out) or one of the many civil and criminal lawsuits will cost him enough of his die-hard voter base? Major donors have already defected.
Maybe there will be a "High Noon" remake in #Florida b/w him and #RonDeathSentence who has a great talent...
@Heimdall @Lightfighter @TonyStark
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...of p.o.'ing one group of voters after another?
Maybe investigative journalists will finally unearth definitive proof of foreign #darkmoney flows from foreign authoritarian states into #GOP coffers?
And then there is always the high likelihood of #GQP candidate infighting after #DonaldDumb's inexorable demise.
And, let's not forget, the #GOP has become world-class in damaging voter group's trust: women of childbearing age,...
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...the #LGBTQIA+ community, retirees, pensioners, teachers, past , current, and future college students, including their whole families.
So many things can--and will--happen until next year.
I see a real chance of the #GOP "bleeding to death" after already having been "shooting itself in the foot" time and again.
During the #Pandemic demagogue #TFG could present alternate facts.
But if his less well-off core voters cannot foot...
@Heimdall @Lightfighter @TonyStark
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...the bill for groceries, medical bills, loan repayments, etc. anymore, they will have a shock therapy cartapulting them back into the real world from their #FauxNews bubbles.
(The walls of these bubbles have weakened tremendously ever since #TuckerCarlson got shown the door.)
Only time will tell. I am still optimistic that the #NextCivilWar scenario will not come to pass.
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