Moderate Democrats and the entire GOP are unwilling to admit how endangered democracy is

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Last week, after the Senate averted an entirely Republican-inflicted crisis about the debt ceiling, Sen Joe Manchin, whose very utterances are edict in a 50-50 Senate, again scoffed at the idea of creating a special carve-out on the filibuster for the debt ceiling.

“The filibuster thread we have to keep democracy alive in America,” Manchin told reporters after a late Thursday night. “If we didn’t have the filibuster to where it can keep us coming back to civility from time to time, then you would see total chaos.”

Manchin’s words came after no Republicans voted to lift the debt limit, which came only after 11 Republicans voted to invoke cloture after President Joe Biden and other Democrats entertained changes to the rule. The Democrat from West Virginia, along with fellow conservative Democrat Sen Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, has insisted that he would not get rid of the tactic that allows members of the Senate to require 60 Senators to vote on legislation. He also opposes the For the People Act, Democrats’ plan to reform elections, saying he believes “partisan voting legislation will destroy the already weakening binds of our democracy.” Meanwhile, his own efforts on voting rights have so far come up short.

I couldn’t shake Manchin’s words as I sat in the press booth in Des Moines, Iowa two days later as Donald Trump unleashed his sound and fury, accompanied by most of the Hawkeye State’s Republican establishment, about how the election was rigged. Between his usual bile of mistruths, half-truths and virulent racism, he hinted at potentially running again in 2024, teasing a new spin on the MAGA Mantra: “Make America Great Again, Again.” All of this made fears about the debt ceiling, Democrats’ hand-wringing about infrastructure, Republicans’ crowing about Chuck Schumer saying mean words about them seem infinitesimal.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/moderate-democrats-and-the-entire-gop-are-unwilling-to-admit-how-endangered-democracy-is/ar-AAPo3Zh

[CrispyQ]

1. Or they don't care. IDK which.

Are they suffering from the kind of American exceptionalism that thinks it can't happen here? Or are they confident that they, personally, will land on their feet, when fascism takes over? The GOP will be the ones taking over, so they're all in. And the media is already in the "we'll land on our feet" camp.

I know people get tired of hearing "this is the most important election ever," but 2020 was just one battle. We still have battles ahead of us.

[RKP5637]

2. K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t