In a weird and ironic twist..........

[berg80]

The Americans who see democracy most at risk? Republicans.

Polling released on Wednesday from Grinnell College suggests that most Americans believe democracy in the United States to be under major threat. More than three-quarters see democracy as being under at least a minor threat. But when broken down by party, the divides are more stark: More than two-thirds of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents think that democracy faces a major threat compared to only about a third of Democrats.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/20/americans-who-see-democracy-most-risk-republicans/

Is their belief based on loony conspiracy theories about Biden buying bought by China, the socialist bogeyman, or how "they're coming for your guns?" No. It's not a coincidence the number of Repubs who see democracy being threatened correlates to the number who believe Joe didn't fairly win the election........the Big Lie.

I hardly need to point out the irony being the Big Lie and the movement it spawned is the reason Dems see democracy at risk.

‘Slow-motion insurrection’: How GOP seizes election power

In the weeks leading up to the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, a handful of Americans — well-known politicians, obscure local bureaucrats — stood up to block then-President Donald Trump’s unprecedented attempt to overturn a free and fair vote of the American people.

In the year since, Trump-aligned Republicans have worked to clear the path for next time.

In battleground states and beyond, Republicans are taking hold of the once-overlooked machinery of elections. While the effort is incomplete and uneven, outside experts on democracy and Democrats are sounding alarms, warning that the United States is witnessing a “slow-motion insurrection” with a better chance of success than Trump’s failed power grab last year.

They point to a mounting list of evidence: Several candidates who deny Trump’s loss are running for offices that could have a key role in the election of the next president in 2024. In Michigan, the Republican Party is restocking members of obscure local boards that could block approval of an election. In Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, the GOP-controlled legislatures are backing open-ended “reviews” of the 2020 election, modeled on a deeply flawed look-back in Arizona. The efforts are poised to fuel disinformation and anger about the 2020 results for years to come.
https://apnews.com/article/donald-t...lection-2020-809215812f4bc6e5907573ba98247c0c

 

[Mac1958]

The Americans who see democracy most at risk? Republicans.

Polling released on Wednesday from Grinnell College suggests that most Americans believe democracy in the United States to be under major threat. More than three-quarters see democracy as being under at least a minor threat. But when broken down by party, the divides are more stark: More than two-thirds of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents think that democracy faces a major threat compared to only about a third of Democrats.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/20/americans-who-see-democracy-most-risk-republicans/

Is their belief based on loony conspiracy theories about Biden buying bought by China, the socialist bogeyman, or how "they're coming for your guns?" No. It's not a coincidence the number of Repubs who see democracy being threatened correlates to the number who believe Joe didn't fairly win the election........the Big Lie.

I hardly need to point out the irony being the Big Lie and the movement it spawned is the reason Dems see democracy at risk.

‘Slow-motion insurrection’: How GOP seizes election power

In the weeks leading up to the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, a handful of Americans — well-known politicians, obscure local bureaucrats — stood up to block then-President Donald Trump’s unprecedented attempt to overturn a free and fair vote of the American people.

In the year since, Trump-aligned Republicans have worked to clear the path for next time.

In battleground states and beyond, Republicans are taking hold of the once-overlooked machinery of elections. While the effort is incomplete and uneven, outside experts on democracy and Democrats are sounding alarms, warning that the United States is witnessing a “slow-motion insurrection” with a better chance of success than Trump’s failed power grab last year.

They point to a mounting list of evidence: Several candidates who deny Trump’s loss are running for offices that could have a key role in the election of the next president in 2024. In Michigan, the Republican Party is restocking members of obscure local boards that could block approval of an election. In Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, the GOP-controlled legislatures are backing open-ended “reviews” of the 2020 election, modeled on a deeply flawed look-back in Arizona. The efforts are poised to fuel disinformation and anger about the 2020 results for years to come.
https://apnews.com/article/donald-t...lection-2020-809215812f4bc6e5907573ba98247c0c

No, it makes sense. I say it all the time: Look in their eyes (in real life). They're absolutely terrified. That's what their media has created over the last 3+ decades.

At the most fundamental level, these people are animated by (1) The Commies, and (2) White Replacement. All of their fear and paranoia are a branch of one of those two things. There is just no getting through to them now, so all we can do is hang on and wait for enough of them peel off so that this stuff can fit back on the fringe, where it belongs.

 

[berg80]

There is just no getting through to them now,

I don't disagree. And that alone spells the end of democracy because it depends on an informed electorate. Informed......not brainwashed by Faux, InfoWars, Breitbart, and OANN.

 

[JGalt]

Biden was bought and paid for by China, socialism is real, and anyone coming for these guns has a death wish.

 

[Oddball]

The Americans who see democracy most at risk? Republicans.

Polling released on Wednesday from Grinnell College suggests that most Americans believe democracy in the United States to be under major threat. More than three-quarters see democracy as being under at least a minor threat. But when broken down by party, the divides are more stark: More than two-thirds of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents think that democracy faces a major threat compared to only about a third of Democrats.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/20/americans-who-see-democracy-most-risk-republicans/

Is their belief based on loony conspiracy theories about Biden buying bought by China, the socialist bogeyman, or how "they're coming for your guns?" No. It's not a coincidence the number of Repubs who see democracy being threatened correlates to the number who believe Joe didn't fairly win the election........the Big Lie.

I hardly need to point out the irony being the Big Lie and the movement it spawned is the reason Dems see democracy at risk.

‘Slow-motion insurrection’: How GOP seizes election power

In the weeks leading up to the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, a handful of Americans — well-known politicians, obscure local bureaucrats — stood up to block then-President Donald Trump’s unprecedented attempt to overturn a free and fair vote of the American people.

In the year since, Trump-aligned Republicans have worked to clear the path for next time.

In battleground states and beyond, Republicans are taking hold of the once-overlooked machinery of elections. While the effort is incomplete and uneven, outside experts on democracy and Democrats are sounding alarms, warning that the United States is witnessing a “slow-motion insurrection” with a better chance of success than Trump’s failed power grab last year.

They point to a mounting list of evidence: Several candidates who deny Trump’s loss are running for offices that could have a key role in the election of the next president in 2024. In Michigan, the Republican Party is restocking members of obscure local boards that could block approval of an election. In Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, the GOP-controlled legislatures are backing open-ended “reviews” of the 2020 election, modeled on a deeply flawed look-back in Arizona. The efforts are poised to fuel disinformation and anger about the 2020 results for years to come.
https://apnews.com/article/donald-t...lection-2020-809215812f4bc6e5907573ba98247c0c

 

[lennypartiv]

The Americans who see democracy most at risk? Republicans.

Well duh. We just had an election stolen from us.

 

[Oddball]

No, it makes sense. I say it all the time: Look in their eyes (in real life). They're absolutely terrified. That's what their media has created over the last 3+ decades.

At the most fundamental level, these people are animated by (1) The Commies, and (2) White Replacement. All of their fear and paranoia are a branch of one of those two things. There is just no getting through to them now, so all we can do is hang on and wait for enough of them peel off so that this stuff can fit back on the fringe, where it belongs.

Lying asshole.....I live in the whitest of whitebread Murica, and have not heard any of that nonsense. a single time.

Guess what....Antisocial media posts are no substitute for crawling out from under your bed and actually talking to your neighbors.

 

[berg80]

Biden was bought and paid for by China

Prove it.........without using a source run by nitwits.

 

[berg80]

Well duh. We just had an election stolen from us.

Allow me to fix that for you. We just saw an ex-prez try to steal an election. You're welcome.

 

[Oddball]

‘Slow-motion insurrection’: How GOP seizes election power

In the weeks leading up to the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, a handful of Americans — well-known politicians, obscure local bureaucrats — stood up to block then-President Donald Trump’s unprecedented attempt to overturn a free and fair vote of the American people.

In the year since, Trump-aligned Republicans have worked to clear the path for next time.

In battleground states and beyond, Republicans are taking hold of the once-overlooked machinery of elections. While the effort is incomplete and uneven, outside experts on democracy and Democrats are sounding alarms, warning that the United States is witnessing a “slow-motion insurrection” with a better chance of success than Trump’s failed power grab last year.

They point to a mounting list of evidence: Several candidates who deny Trump’s loss are running for offices that could have a key role in the election of the next president in 2024. In Michigan, the Republican Party is restocking members of obscure local boards that could block approval of an election. In Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, the GOP-controlled legislatures are backing open-ended “reviews” of the 2020 election, modeled on a deeply flawed look-back in Arizona. The efforts are poised to fuel disinformation and anger about the 2020 results for years to come.
https://apnews.com/article/donald-t...lection-2020-809215812f4bc6e5907573ba98247c0c

Guess what, dope, this is how that "democracy" thingy operates....Getting out at he school board and precinct level is how the system works.....It's how you fascist goombahs have stacked the system in your favor for decades, and you don't like the idea of getting bested at the game.

It's not an "insurrection" when you lose the same game you've been playing for decades....So quit clutching your pearls and suck it.

 

[JGalt]

Prove it.........without using a source run by nitwits.

Who was your ni**er last week?

Do your own damned homework.

 

[berg80]

Guess what, dope, this is how that "democracy" thingy operates....Getting out at he school board and precinct level is how the system works.

The way the system has worked is people who are loyal to the Constitution, not a would be dictator who tried to thwart the will of the majority of Americans, participate in the apparatus of elections. To ensure their fairness and efficiency, not to ensure the candidate of their choice wins. Got it hair brain?

 

[Dogmaphobe]

It's the technocrat media that is the biggest threat to our Democracy.

Only a complete idiot would fail to see how they manipulate us.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

Guess what, dope, this is how that "democracy" thingy operates....Getting out at he school board and precinct level is how the system works.....It's how you fascist goombahs have stacked the system in your favor for decades, and you don't like the idea of getting bested at the game.

It's not an "insurrection" when you lose the same game you've been playing for decades....So quit clutching your pearls and suck it.

You do have to give Berg credit for one thing, though, oddball.

The way he lists his IQ in his user name takes a lot of guts.

 

[Couchpotato]

The way the system has worked is people who are loyal to the Constitution, not a would be dictator who tried to thwart the will of the majority of Americans, participate in the apparatus of elections. To ensure their fairness and efficiency, not to ensure the candidate of their choice wins. Got it hair brain?

The Jan 6 shit aside which I only dont want to discuss because it's an issue that people are far to invested in to rationally talk about IMO.

For a guy who was supposed to want to be a dictator, Trump didnt do anything dictatorial. (or at least not any more than past Presidents). He had the perfect opportunity had he really wanted to do that. Hell half the country was begging him to, criticizing him for not being more like a dictator during the pandemic. Since he was basically given the chance and didn't take it why do people think he still wanted to be totalitarian dictator? It's rather confusing frankly. People who want to be dictators dont pass up on opportunities to do so, at least I would think.

 

[berg80]

It's the technocrat media that is the biggest threat to our Democracy.

Only a complete idiot would fail to see how they manipulate us.

That's an ineffectual deflection. I'm not interested in your stupid videos either. Stick to the subject or get lost.

 

[berg80]

You do have to give Berg credit for one thing, though, oddball.

The way he lists his IQ in his user name takes a lot of guts.

Those not so clever retorts must be a big hit on the playground with the 10 year olds.

 

[Oddball]

The way the system has worked is people who are loyal to the Constitution, not a would be dictator who tried to thwart the will of the majority of Americans, participate in the apparatus of elections. To ensure their fairness and efficiency, not to ensure the candidate of their choice wins. Got it hair brain?

Nobody cares about your cafeteria constitutionalism, freak....The populists are taking over the GOP and are learning how to operate a the grassroots level, and that is terrifying the hell out of you fascist drips.

Embrace the suck, loser.

 

[Oddball]

Those not so clever retorts must be a big hit on the playground with the 10 year olds.

Listen whose talking about 10-year olds!

 

[berg80]

The populists are taking over the GOP

Except they aren't populists. They are Trump loyalists. They are motivated by seeing him returned to power by any means necessary and by a belief in the Big Lie. They feel aggrieved because they think the election was stolen. It wasn't.