The thing is, these spoiled idiot children still are scaring good people out of serving in politics, and emboldening people who are trying to hollow out democracy and occupy its shell, like some horrifying parasitic wasp. Crazies are _successfully_ shutting down meetings of city governments and school boards, and they've created pretty drastic disruptions of state legislatures in places like Michigan. It's a "Schrodinger's Terrorist" situation. The vast majority of them are too chickenshit to actually do anything, but you only need one of them every few years to actually commit some murders, to maintain the sense of menace -- and they know full well what they're contributing to. They _enjoy_ the fact that they're intimidating their enemies, driving them from the public square.
Brad Raffensperger is not going to be in charge of elections in Georgia anymore, because he respected the will of the voters. Every state where the GOP has control is going to get just as gerrymandered as Wisconsin, where Repubs can win a super-majority of the legislature while winning a minority of votes. We are at risk of becoming a country like Hungary or Russia, where we pantomime the _forms_ of democracy, while a narrow minority actually maintains a stranglehold on power. And while our modern brown/blackshirts are considerably more ridiculous than the original version, the clownshirts are no less of a problem.
Spot on. What a crew of cowardly knuckleheads. We shouldn’t fear them. I almost, ALMOST, reserve a pittance of pity for them. I’ll reserve my fear for the Kochs and myriad other treasonous money-shovelers digging under the foundation of democracy in the shadows.
The thing is, these spoiled idiot children still are scaring good people out of serving in politics, and emboldening people who are trying to hollow out democracy and occupy its shell, like some horrifying parasitic wasp. Crazies are _successfully_ shutting down meetings of city governments and school boards, and they've created pretty drastic disruptions of state legislatures in places like Michigan. It's a "Schrodinger's Terrorist" situation. The vast majority of them are too chickenshit to actually do anything, but you only need one of them every few years to actually commit some murders, to maintain the sense of menace -- and they know full well what they're contributing to. They _enjoy_ the fact that they're intimidating their enemies, driving them from the public square.
Brad Raffensperger is not going to be in charge of elections in Georgia anymore, because he respected the will of the voters. Every state where the GOP has control is going to get just as gerrymandered as Wisconsin, where Repubs can win a super-majority of the legislature while winning a minority of votes. We are at risk of becoming a country like Hungary or Russia, where we pantomime the _forms_ of democracy, while a narrow minority actually maintains a stranglehold on power. And while our modern brown/blackshirts are considerably more ridiculous than the original version, the clownshirts are no less of a problem.
Spot on. What a crew of cowardly knuckleheads. We shouldn’t fear them. I almost, ALMOST, reserve a pittance of pity for them. I’ll reserve my fear for the Kochs and myriad other treasonous money-shovelers digging under the foundation of democracy in the shadows.