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George Takei: We vote blue up and down the ballot. We replace every last one of them. Pass it on. (Original Post) soothsayer Aug 2020 OP
I will and do. Ferrets are Cool Aug 2020 #1
Conservative George Will said the same thing two years ago Poiuyt Aug 2020 #2
This is important at every level: congress, state, local, IronLionZion Aug 2020 #3
we vote blue up and down the ballot. For sure. demigoddess Sep 2020 #4

Poiuyt

(18,123 posts)
2. Conservative George Will said the same thing two years ago
Mon Aug 31, 2020, 09:59 PM
Aug 2020

Writes Will, “the congressional Republican caucuses must be substantially reduced. So substantially that their remnants, reduced to minorities, will be stripped of the Constitution’s Article I powers that they have been too invertebrate to use against the current wielder of Article II powers.”

“They will then have leisure time to wonder why they worked so hard to achieve membership in a legislature whose unexercised muscles have atrophied because of people like them,” he said.

“Not because James Madison’s system has failed but because today’s abject careerists have failed to be worthy of it,” Will wrote. “Congressional Republicans (congressional Democrats are equally supine toward Democratic presidents) have no higher ambition than to placate this president.”

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/conservative-george-will-says-vote-against-republicans-in-midterms-2018-06-23

IronLionZion

(45,433 posts)
3. This is important at every level: congress, state, local,
Mon Aug 31, 2020, 11:52 PM
Aug 2020

since plenty of important reforms can happen at the local level if enough liberals are elected. I hope turnout is extra high on our side.

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