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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLooks like about 2/3 of public disagree with the SCOTUS decision on voting rights rollbacks.
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PortTack
(32,762 posts)Help GOTV!!
Turbineguy
(37,322 posts)to republicans.
patphil
(6,172 posts)If so, the more people that vote, the more their election would be assured.
But, they know they support a minority platform, so they have to try to rig the voting to get majorities in elections.
Ya think they would just shift their positions a bit more to the center, but instead they are shifting more to the right.
This only works with voter suppression and vote negation.
It keeps getting harder for them to be successful at this, but they keep going at it with more and more severe laws that are inherently opposed to the philosophy of our republic.
One of two things must happen.
Either they win, and the Republic fails, or they fail, and the Republican Party crashes and burns.
It's going to be a difficult struggle, but I'm putting my money on the American People for the win.
The Republic, as championed by the Democratic Party, will prevail!
uponit7771
(90,335 posts)msongs
(67,400 posts)ShazzieB
(16,382 posts)Even with all 50 Democrats on board, they'd still need 10 Republicans to join in.
The filibuster stays unless ALL the Democrats agree on getting rid of it, and as we all know, a couple of them are not on board with that.
Therefore, it's not just the Republicans preventing passage, but they are part of the picture.
librechik
(30,674 posts)anyway, so they just go ahead and force them to do these wicked things. Makes them feel powerful.
RVN VET71
(2,690 posts)I no longer feel inhibited to lay that name on them, on every one of the 6 fascists on the court. With this racist decision, SCOTUS revealed its true leaning -- and it isnt rightward, it isnt Republican, it isnt even Conservative in the sense of Reagan and Goldwater. Its fascist. Fascist to the marrow.
Our only hope is in Bidens ability to navigate the troubled political waters in Washington D.C. and for the Democrats to get out historic numbers of votes in 2022 and 2024. If the Dems can increase their numbers in the House and, please god, the Senate, it would be possible for Bidens Administration to pack the court with real justices, justices whose decisions you might disagree with but not their integrity. Four at a minimum, but six would be even better, to neutralize the six fascists.
If the Dems cant increase their lead in House and Senate in 2022, the current SCOTUS will continue to re-shape the vision of this country to one that is more and more plutocratic (which is to say fascist) and less a country where each citizen has equal opportunity and voice.
Duppers
(28,120 posts)They may as well be wearing white hoods w/those black robes.
RVN VET71
(2,690 posts)9 Supreme Court Justices, 6 wearing white hoods and Othala Rune patches. (The Othala Rune is the Nazi symbol that was used in the design of the stage for the CPAC convention.)
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Duppers
(28,120 posts)Thank you!!
Vinca
(50,269 posts)said a 2017 GOP voter ID law was unconstitutional. The law essentially made people registering for same day voting do back flips and somersaults to fulfill the requirements and if they didn't produce documents in a specified period of time to be fined. The League of Women voters brought the lawsuit and won. Guess the legal profession will be busy thanks to Republicans.
Demovictory9
(32,453 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,144 posts)So, yeah, let them vote, what could appear more normal?
SergeStorms
(19,199 posts)Republicans are regressive, Jim Crow loving, violent, fascist, ignorant shitheads. Rotten bastards. Why do people keep electing these assholes?
Hulk
(6,699 posts)TY mr. turtlehead. He single handedly screwed democracy in the SCOTUS for decades to come. So sad. Corrupt, evil son-of-a-bitch.
spanone
(135,829 posts)turbinetree
(24,695 posts)triron
(21,999 posts)turbinetree
(24,695 posts)you will not be able to vote, and to test the "loyalty" these fascists will look at your voting record registration, and if your a independent they will be outlawed outright along with the democrat's....and yes it is unfortunate in your comment that it may be to radical when people don't wake up and smell the proverbial coffee before its to late...this current right wing supporting authoritarian fascists' loving John Roberts court is just marching in lock step with that mantra and the donors that got them on the bench in the first place.......and a permit should be authorized by the Park Police to have a protest this coming October to remind all six of them that they should be impeached...because every last one of them lied during there "confirmation" side shows.....
peppertree
(21,626 posts)Their GOP scriptwriters told them to strip voting rights - then dagnabbit, they'll strip like a Vegas showgirl.
Firestorm49
(4,032 posts)in any election should be the shining star of our democracy. I am beside myself that the holiest of courts, the Supreme Court of the United States regards our right to vote with such disrespect.
We need to add Constitutionally aligned judges to the Supreme Court - now!
triron
(21,999 posts)Hassler
(3,377 posts)What 2/3 of the public thinks.