WTF?!? "Democracy advocates"

[Nevilledog]

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"Democracy advocates" have become a subset of the population rather than the population itself.
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5:26 PM · Jul 1, 2022

These fuckers are gonna bothsides the fucking apocalypse

[dchill]

1. "These fuckers are gonna bothsides the fucking apocalypse..."

Bears repeating.

[Mike Niendorff]

5. K&R.

"Democracy advocates" -- as opposed to ???


MDN

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. "There's a possibility that we may have seen our last fair and free presidential election.

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[rubbersole]

3. Click bait equals money.

MSM has no more fucks to give.(About you, anyway.)

[Hortensis]

10. None of the above is what's happening. Read the article, or read below.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Can someone elaborate on what's going on here? Thanks.

[Hav]

6. I was wondering about it as well

but I assume it's the characterization of democracy advocates when everybody should be in support of democratic principles and that it's not a fringe, radical or partisan issue.
I think the term could be seen in a positive framing as well as in that the other side isn't democratic. But the wording seems unfortunate when so much may be at stake.

[Hugin]

7. That's pretty much the idea in a nutshell...

Divide and conquer.

If democracy is portrayed as only one of many alternatives instead of the foundation of the system we all live in, it becomes easier for regressive systems to be seen as an equally important path. Worth consideration.

One thing you’ll never hear from the forces who want totalitarian dictatorship is “let’s vote on it.”

[Hortensis]

9. It's about moving decisions on presidential elections to state legislatures,

so that a controlling faction in a legislature could decide, and the state courts, governors, and other officials would have no authority.

This is huge. It's about SCOTUS potentially using its power to impose RW tyranny of the few on the many.

[Hortensis]

8. It's about RW plan to take control of presidential elections in time for 2024.

As above, if the court rules that state legislatures alone can decide presidential elections 2020 could have been our last free election.

Important post, thanks. "Democracy advocates" raised my hair a bit also. But the WaPo is on democracy's side. After tRump was sworn in, they added a new line to their masthead: "Democracy dies in darkness." "Raise alarm" are other key words here, right in the headline.

Here's an article explaining the "independent state legislature" theory for those closed out of the WaPo. A giant potential new threat by a RW extremist SCOTUS that looks like it's abandoning "incremental" change to impose a tyranny of a RW extremist minority. This is a revolution.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/independent-state-legislature-theory-explained