“If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy.” - David Frum
Same thing they did with the governor’s powers when a democrat beat Scott Walker. These people don’t give a fuck about what the people of Wisconsin want. Every time they lose an election, they subvert democracy to retain power over the people who keep trying to take it away from them at the ballot box.
I’m not saying democracy is dead. But is is definitely not alive and well.
Democracy coded a long time ago. It’s been legally dead for a while. We hooked up to life support and are forcing fluids through it with pumps though, so the constituent cells are all still maintaining life functions, and if closely inspected appear fine.
What’s that quote about conservatives abandoning democracy when it fails them?
At the top of the thread ;)
This is the best summary I could come up with:
However, due in part to what experts have called one of the nation’s most extreme partisan gerrymanders, Republicans have maintained a foothold in the state legislature, with massive Senate and Assembly majorities.
Wisconsin state Sen. Dan Knodl, whose April special election victory gave Republicans their Senate supermajority, told Milwaukee’s CBS 58 he would support impeaching Protasiewicz if she does not recuse herself on redistricting cases.
Besides reducing the chief justice’s powers, the liberal majority voted to open administrative meetings to the public and fired a conservative former judge who had overseen the state’s court system for six years.
Michael Gableman, the former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice who was hired by Vos to review the state’s 2020 election, has frequently targeted Wolfe, including mocking the way she dressed.
By doing nothing, under the state high court’s previous ruling, the Wisconsin Election Commission believed it could keep Wolfe on in her current role without requiring Senate confirmation.
Still, the state Senate’s elections committee, chaired by Knodl, moved forward with a hearing Tuesday, beginning the process of considering Wolfe’s confirmation and potentially triggering a court fight.
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Believe them when they say there will be a civil war.
Conservatives started one Civil War already, but do they really think anyone is going to support another war based on racism, bigotry, and xenophobia? I could see conservatives continuing their war on democracy through terrorism as they have been doing for thirty years but no more than that. I don’t believe Americans would tolerate anything more.
I believe everyone already entrenched in MAGA ideology will take to the streets with their weapons. Do I think it will be reminiscent of the Civil War? No, but I think people will die.
A bunch of obese losers and elderly white men are going to have a difficult time starting a civil war.
Yeah, but they won’t have a difficult time shooting passerby in the streets they identify as democrats. That is a very real possibility and that is probably what they’ll try to do when their God-Emperor is denied.
The problem is that despite the projection, Democrats are armed too and actually take marksmanship courses to know how to use a firearm. A Democrat doesn’t need an assault rifle to hit the broad side of a barn like a Republican does, they would be putting two in the chest and one in the head easily if the situation warranted it. I don’t think it ever will, but it’s a fact.
There is a really unusual “Iamverybadass” energy in your comment, that I’m not used to seeing from fellow Democrats, nor do I think is a particularly attractive look.
Far less than that, one can be capable but not advertise it, which is my point. Far too often Democrats are viewed as weak, unable to defend themselves, types. That certainly is not the case.
