The thing that's obvious to everyone and that nobody can actually write in the press is that the American (and yes, I'm sure elsewhere too) right wing is led by bad people and the object is to make more people extremely bad in basically every respect. It's anti-society
It's not that the leaders are incidentally bad, the badness is what makes them good leaders for this movement, which again is to make as many people as fundamentally rotten as possible
Being a good citizen, being a good neighbor, being a helpful and attentive student, being a good community member, even what was once considered being a good Christian - all of these things are antithetical to the right wing movement
Possibly the most enraging thing about the Democratic party right now is that it seems to have no capacity to reckon with this reality - they look at Jaws halfway up on the back of the boat, ready to sink the whole thing, and fantasize that it's Mitt Romney and John McCain waving to them
That's something that must change. If we defeat Trump (and I think we will, caveat about my sanity depending on optimism), then they'll have to go all-out for a new Voters' Rights Act and abolish the electoral college and/or offer statehood to DC and PR. The GOP has to be forced to moderate or die.
We have been saying that for longer than 4 years. It requires us to have a majority of states with democratic senators. But people don't turn up to vote in off years so...
No, they decided that only SCOTUS can decide when the president isn't immune to prosecution, and they won't hesitate to strip Biden of immunity while protecting Trump
Let me ask you a serious question:
Why is it Republicans can always get whatever they want passed, even without a majority in Congress, but Democrats always need a majority?
And then when Democrats HAVE a majority, they end up never following through on their promises anyway?
They usually don't get stuff through without without a majority unless they can negotiate with Democrats
Because obstructionism from Republicans, like McConnel breaking rules by refusing to proceed with mandatory processes (like not confirming a Obama appointed justice)
