Folks, the reason that the GOP is making it's push now is

[WCGreen]

because they know the demographics coming down the road don't favor them at all.

They are trying to isolate us, pit each group against each other, make us so upset that we don't show up in november of 2012.

The more the minority groups grow the more the democratic party grows.

Why do you think they are so hell bent on belittling the hispanic community, cowering them into submission.

That community has it's own problems with the ones who have reached to top adopt the ways and means of the hard right.

All this voter suppression, these sudden changes in how electoral votes are allocated, these demoralizing of the environmentalists and labor is to keep them on back on their heels, fighting for their political lives leaving no time for their agendas...

They want this decade.

They know it is by chance or design to likely be the swan song of America as we know it and they want to be the ones in control so that they can set the new ground rules that will favor wealth and privilege over democratic participation.

Think about it.

What would we do if Pennsylvania and Ohio and a couple of other states change their allocation of electoral votes to who wins in each congressional seats vs winner take all. What if president Obama wins by two million popular votes but still loses the election in the electoral college.

Would you take to the streets?

The right wing is counting on not.

The trial run was 2000 when the pasty faced brooks bros punks intimidated volunteer vote counters in South Florida.

So what would you do if Perry lost to president Obama by 2 million vote but still took the electoral college?

What would you do?

[JuniperLea]

1. They are telling us how we feel...

Lying to us about US!

I hope this backfires...

[WCGreen]

3. The good news is that, for now at least, most of the younger generations

get their news on line and not filtered through the corporate media.

As soon as they figure out how to completely control the net, that will end...

[JuniperLea]

5. They're working on it...

The InterTubes won't be free for long I bet.

[librechik]

2. that's why they fight the Employee Free Choice Act, too

When it is easier to join Unions, they will NO DOUBT grow, especially in an era when employers have been deliverately suppressing wages for so long (30 years or so) Young folks in the future aren't going to lie down and accept that shit any more than their great grandfathers did.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

4. Folksy.

:tinfoilhat:

[WCGreen]

7. I hope you are right....

But I look at how DISCIPLINED the GOP is about their message and how our message is muddies and hard to put into a few snappy words.

Of course that is because the GOP talking lines are no no no and personal attacks.

The mistake we are making is that we look at the GOP as rational negotiators and they are not.

They gain strength by saying no...

[HappyMe]

8. Yup, and also true. nt

[Kolesar]

6. Every year, the electorate becomes 0.5% "less white"

So they have to reinstate their 21st century voter suppression laws like voter ID. Jim Crow lives.

[villager]

9. All good points, but then why are the Democrats demoralizing labor and environmentalists

(to name but two) as well?

:shrug:

[WCGreen]

11. I have no idea...

I think it is because there is not much campaign money left with those two traditional democratic supporters.

I guess we need to throw in the Citizens United ruling really skewing fund raising toward the GOP and it shows.

Anyway, we are in for a bumpy ride and it will be up to the people if they think the US is worth saving.

I bet there are a lot of nervous people around the world watching in horror as the destruction of our country continues

[DefenseLawyer]

10. The median age of Fox News viewers: 65; Limbaugh: 67 n/t

[WCGreen]

12. Exactly!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. Good points...well said!

[UrbScotty]

Indeed. The Republican Party is DOOMED if they don't lie, cheat, and steal their way

to another win.

[WCGreen]

16. Their ranks are shrinking as their true colors shine through....

[Sheepshank]

14. Why not simply push for one man one vote and eliminate electoral college?

the popular vote should win every time IMHO.

[WCGreen]

15. That would be the preferred way...

Especially now with almost universal suffrage.

[AndyTiedye]

17. They Are Doing it Now Because They Can. Citizens United Changed Everything

We will never even know how much we are being outspent by,
because the corporations don't have to tell anyone.