New electoral maps are erasing Black representations. The effort takes its cues from American history
Americans are trapped in a pincer movement being executed by the wealthy aristocracy that controls both political parties
I have a feeling that it will be 2040, Republicans are the only legal party and there will be illegal underground news articles that are still titled “Republicans are trying to end America’s democracy.”
At what point are any of the people writing these articles going to acknowledge that they’ve already done it and that only way to reverse it is through law breaking?
Americans have so thoroughly been taught to follow the law and be polite since they began school that there is no snapping them out of it. They will let the fascist take their freedoms, taxes, health, sanity and more. Everyone of them will keep trying to vote harder.
It’s happening and Americans are either complicit or powerless to do anything about it.
They had a chance in November 2024. They wasted it.
America is complicit.
The assumption that there wasn’t a level of cheating and interference in that election is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Both sides have been playing the game of gerrymandering and creating districts in their favor when it suits them and they have the power to do so, conservatives just played it better and now have control of enough courts to legalize it or drag out the fight until the election comes and goes and the fight is irrelevant.
I firmly believe that his “stolen election” complaint is because he cheated but it wasn’t enough, they “stole” his rigged win. Now they’re consolidating power, tweaking maps, voter suppression, creating barriers to voting, who the fuck knows how secure our machines even are at this point. The next election is a test of how successful their new tactics are, because when he runs illegally for a third term they want to be damn sure the ability to steal a win is foolproof. When he runs it’ll get challenged, it’ll get drawn out, he’ll keep running, his system will hand him what looks like a huge win, he’ll declare it’s a mandate from the people.
A chance for what exactly?
powerless to do anything about it.
They’re not powerless. They could’ve had more than 3 protests in the past 16 months before giving up.
They weren’t protests- they were parades. They had fucking live music and barbecue grills. Social media posts talking about how much “fun” they had protesting.
An absolute joke.
Every time I hear someone suggest protesting I have to assume they’re a liberal. Which means they oppose leftists at every opportunity, oppose any acts of violence like the killing of Brian Thompson, explain the pragmatism of blocking the rail strike in 2022 and defend Biden for going around congress twice to ship weapons to Israel and preventing a legitimate primary from being run in 2024.
The short of it being, liberals oppose any kind of disruption so what exactly do they believe protests are supposed to accomplish?
That’s the thing- they don’t.
For American liberals, protesting isn’t the means, it’s the end.
It’s their opportunity to telegraph to everyone that they’re “on the right side.” Accomplishing that and easing their guilt for doing fuck-all are the only outcomes they give a shit about.
I agree. Though I’m not sure why I’m getting more down votes than you.
Also a little frustrating when people leave the down vote but say nothing.
I swear if I read one more headline of an article attempting to tell me something I’ve been desperately trying to convince people of for a decade I’m gonna need to start drinking before noon
Cheers
Can’t drink all day if you don’t start in the morning
Welcome to the club
If you were saying it for the decade then you were taking about different thing and missing that they literally want to finish US democracy on its 250 anniversary.
There was work to gradually undermine elections, but right now they are going all in. It is very different to the past.
trump is obsessed about his ballroom and how it will provide security for him, taking about snipers on the roof, paying $1M to people who wanted to overthrow government for him.
It’s clear that his plan is to stay in power and prepare when people will go after him.
Worth the read.
It’s disturbing how blatant it is, and the through line from the American Civil War and the failure of Reconstruction to deal with the lingering Confederate elements appropriately.
I can remember so many conversations where someone was just so deeply clueless about how many Americans, mostly living in the South, are still so very deeply resentful of losing that war.
One conversation was in the 90s and I was talking to an H1-B who had just come from Texas, and we were working in the NE. I asked how it was living and working in Texas and he just seemed to brush all that off as something “from the past”.
If only.
Republicans are cowards
, liars, thieves, and cheats.
Can’t win any other way.
I hope this backfires spectacularly and all the left of center voters turn out in record numbers to flip all these new diluted districts
This is the aftermath of the supreme court’s disastrous 6-3 ruling in Louisiana v Callais, decided less than a month ago, which gravely weakened the Voting Rights Act’s protections for Black representation. Ever since, Republicans have resembled eager children on Christmas morning, tearing our electoral maps to shreds.
Louisiana
Louisiana is set to eliminate one of its two Black-majority districts. The court let
Alabama
The court let Alabama erase one of its two Black-majority districts before this fall’s primaries.
Mississippi
In Mississippi, the Republican state senator who chairs the Medicaid committee said this week that it was time to “erase Bennie Thompson’s district”.
you utter trash. you absolute excrement of humanity. we will remember every one of you racist fucks. retribution may be delayed, but it will come and your graves will be pissed upon for generations, you loathsome, useless waste of oxygen.
We should have cleaned house after Civil War. Every confederate male over age 12 executed for treason, the rest (women and children) relocated to areas in the north, and all that confederate territory given to the freed slaves.
Let those live that faught for the north.
November mattered? Since when?
Sure, they add up ballots, why not? It’s our tradition.
Whoever spends the most wins over 90% of the time.
Regardless, Amazon will “donate” to BoTh PaRtIeS beforehand, of course! If one party wins, they’ll have an easier time of it to open that new distribution center.
If the other party wins, Amazon will be like “darn it!”, and it will cost them more money, but they will still get that new distribution center.
You can be sure that whomever wins, the poor humps working at that new distribution center will lose.
That should be pretty easy for them to achieve, seeing as how this administration can turn the country on its’ head twice a week and no one, seemingly, bats an eye.
To use the colorful patois of Anaheim, California, where I grew up: “NO DOY!”
That’s so surprising, I am shocked. I wonder if anyone could’ve predicted this.
Definitely not. No one ever said that there would be dire consequences to electing racist psychopaths.
Water is wet
Sky is blue
I don’t get a vote
Neither do you.The Republican project isn’t to win in November. It’s to make November cease to matter
Brave words from The Guardian. They need to be heard.
Did you just quote the title of the article, which is also the title of the post?
Did I?
When the Dems take back the power, they will have to act decisively to declare MAGA a National Security Threat, and purge it from our government and our society. Further, their followers can never hold office under the 14th Amendment, Section 3.
A new conservative party will have to be built from the ground up, without MAGA representation, with a rededication to their traditional core values of smaller government, lower taxes, fiscal responsibility. There needs to be government regulation guiding them, and the moment they try to get racial, or religious, they are disbanded again, and they can start over.
…why the fuck do we NEED a conservative party?
What do they stand for that needs to be represented? Religious intolerance? Trillion dollar military? Open corruption?
Count on the democrats to do absolutely nothing of the kind
lol
Yeah, that was my response as well. We had a literal violent coup and their decisive action was just stuck their thumbs up their ass.
