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Dr. Trevon D Logan @TrevonDLogan
American democracy is very, very young. It is not even 60 years old. Look at voting registration and voting by race in Mississippi counties in 1946– in some cases no Black people voted. None. When people are nostalgic for the “good old days,” this is what they mean.
7:40 AM · Nov 28, 2021·Twitter for iPhone
https://twitter.com/TrevonDLogan/status/1464952398112251906
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lol
Fuck that dude.
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For reasons that we could discuss at length, it's really hard to demonize Republicans. For years they've represented wildly irresponsible views, the worst of which at the moment is the conviction that Democrats stole the 2020 election and that justifies passing new laws that give Republicans more power to count votes. It really doesn't get much worse than that, and even so most non-Democrats simply don't consider this a big deal.
So the right question to ask is: If even something this alarming produces little more than a yawn outside the ranks of Democrats, what the hell would it take to make people genuinely afraid of Republicans?
This is a question I've been pondering for years and I still come up blank. The simplest answer, I think, is that Republicans are generally conservative in the literal sense: they want things to stay the same, and extremism in the defense of doing nothing just doesn't bother most people. Conversely, it's easy to demonize Democrats: liberals want to change things, and extreme changes are scary as hell. So liberals are working under a handicap from the start.
https://jabberwocking.com/how-can-we-make-more-people-fear-republican-
rule/
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Robert Reich @RBReich
Average weeks of paid family leave for parents:
Slovakia: 164 weeks
Finland: 161 weeks
Hungary: 160 weeks
Norway: 91 weeks
Korea: 64 weeks
Germany: 58 weeks
Japan: 58 weeks
Sweden: 55 weeks
Poland: 52 weeks
Canada: 51 weeks
Denmark: 50 weeks
United States: 0 weeks
11:47 AM · Nov 29, 2021·Twitter Web App
https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1465376979126001672
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Jaberwocking.com: How can we make more people fear Republican rule?"
That's not the question you should be asking.
Figure out why you're so fucking awful and fix it.
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Investment banker Bill Derrough argues in the Columbus Post Dispatch that It’s time to give Joe Biden his due:
. . . Personal bankruptcy filings are at the lowest levels since 1985. Unemployment is down to 4.6% from nearly 7% when Joe Biden was elected president and average hourly wages are the highest for Americans than they have ever been.
. . . Notwithstanding many naysayers, under President Joe Biden’s administration, the United States economy is not just back on track to tremendous growth, but, thanks to a number of legislative and administrative measures, is on its way to being less trickle down and more bottoms-up. Perhaps the most significant of these so far is the Biden Administration’s infrastructure bill. . . .
And the story will, I think, be even better, when that landmark physical infrastructure bill is joined by its counterpart, the human infrastructure bill, very possibly this coming month.
Together, they will go a long way toward revitalizing our economy — and righting the imbalance that’s grown ever more extreme over the past 40 years.
Namely, the imbalance between ordinary Americans, who have been doing most of the nation’s work . . .
. . . and those at the very top, who have been reaping most of the rewards.
I’m a fan of Jeff Bezos, as I’ve acknowledged before. But would he or anyone dispute that much of his $200 billion net worth derives from the labor of others?
The economic squeeze most Americans find themselves in, that Trump tapped so successfully, is brutal. Voters have every reason to be frustrated and angry. But the culprit are not Jews or blacks or asylum seekers hoping to pick our tomatoes. The culprit is a party whose signal achievement in recent decades has been lowering taxes on the very rich while blocking progress, wherever it can, for everyone else. The culprit is not Benghazi, that consumed so much of their attention, but the oil-industry-inspired invasion of Iraq — on the drawing board before 9/11 — that wound up costing us trillions.
And no, these two infrastructure bills will not meaningfully prolong or amp up inflation.
https://andrewtobias.com/a-ton-of-things-going-right/
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Raid the Republican Party to save the party
Martin Skladany wrote in March (and his argument is just as strong now):
Democrats’ instinct after winning the White House and Congress in 2020 might be to stand back and let the Republican Party slowly self-destruct. Such inaction would not necessarily preserve democracy. A Trumpist GOP would continue to win elections, maintain power over certain states, and could regain control of the Senate or House in 2022.
The responsibility of saving the Republican Party — and the rule of law — has been thrust not onto principled Republicans alone, but also Democrats and independents. To do so, they must contend with a primary system that easily could end the political careers of the Republicans who crossed Donald Trump in defending the 2020 elections, such as Georgia’s Gov. Brian Kemp and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
Democrats and independents need to cross over and vote in Republican primary elections. Such “reverse primarying” could ensure that the general election at least would be a choice between candidates who believe in the sanctity of elections and good governance.
Raiding a party’s primary is typically done to scupper a rival party in the general election by voting for their more extreme candidate. I propose the opposite: increasing a moderate Republican’s chances by cutting the far right off at the knees. Nearly 60 percent of GOP voters want Trump to keep playing a major role in the party. Eradicating the danger of extremism will require more than focusing on voter registration and increasing turnout. Non-Republicans need to “primary from across the aisle,” and do it nationally.
Some Republicans who value facts are defecting from their party, rather than fighting to take it back. Starting a third party composed of Republican emigres has been recently floated. If these developments continue, who would remain to haul the Republican ranks back to reality?
Even if Democrats could win every election — which they can’t — it is in their collective national interest to hobble far-right extremists and conspiracy-theorists in the GOP. Otherwise, the country’s fissures could widen and we likely won’t have seen our last attempt to overturn an election.
Should Democrats care if the same policy is applied to their party? No. Both moderate and left-leaning Democrats believe in democracy and the will of the people, even if there are sharp policy distinctions between them. Ultimately, any Republican at heart who registered as a Democrat might vote for more left-wing candidates to attempt to sink Democrats’ chances of success in the general election, yet this concern is likely not as important as the need for Democrats to ensure they don’t lose our freedoms through having despotic Republicans win elections.
More at https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/541108-raid-the-republican-party-
to-save-the-party
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Outlawing Abortion Will Increase Child Poverty. Republicans Couldn’t Care Less.
US Supreme Court justices weigh whether to uphold a Mississippi law (Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health) that bans abortion after 15 weeks and overrule the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.
The old Democratic line about Republicans is that they care deeply about human life right up until the moment a child is actually born, and then they’re on their own. The party has spent decades fighting to abolish abortion and preaching the sanctity of life, all while supporting the death penalty and opposing social spending programs aimed at helping struggling parents and their kids.
This month, that dynamic has been on display perhaps more vividly than ever before.
After Wednesday’s oral arguments over Mississippi’s abortion ban, the GOP-dominated Supreme Court appears ready to fulfill the dreams of conservative activists everywhere, and fully overturn Roe v. Wade, setting the stage for dozens of other states to outlaw the procedure in short order. Meanwhile on Capitol Hill, Republicans are busy fighting against Joe Biden’s Build Back Better Act, much of which is aimed at supporting parents with childcare services and tax credits for reducing family poverty—the sorts of priorities that a party that actually cared about children, as opposed to fetuses, might embrace.
If the conservative movement sees ultimate success in Dobbs, the rest of the country will soon relearn that outlawing abortion is a pro-poverty policy, and that Republicans are offering nothing to address its dire consequences.
I’m not saying Republicans are necessarily hypocrites for opposing the specifics of Biden’s family agenda (plenty of progressives have found fault with its various pieces). But, with the exception of Sen. Mitt Romney, whose genuinely bold proposal for a child tax allowance went nowhere within his party, the GOP has nothing resembling an alternative to Democratic plans that would help the many women who will now have no choice but to birth children they lack the means to support.
And let’s be clear: If Roe falls, as now seems likely, it is all but certain that more American children will be born to poor single-parents, many of whom already have children they are financially struggling to raise. That much should be obvious to anyone who takes even a brief glance at abortion statistics. In 2014, 49 percent of women who terminated their pregnancies survived on incomes below the poverty line, 55 percent were unmarried and not living with a partner, and 59 percent had already given birth at least once before, according to the most up-to-date analysis by the Guttmacher Institute. A major study that asked nearly 1,000 women why they were seeking abortions found that three of the most popular answers were finances (40 percent), issues with the father (31 percent), and the need to focus on their other children (29 percent).
More at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/12/scotus-will-gaslight-us-un
til-the-end.html
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I have received a request to update my old chart showing the number of politically-related criminal convictions per administration. Happy to oblige:
Republicans 95, Democrats 1
The Trump number looks low, but cabinet members who resigned for dodgy behavior never got criminally convicted of anything.
https://jabberwocking.com/our-updated-score0-republicans-95-democrats-
1/
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Lies, from as left as you can possibly be without being Emperor Xi, jabberwocking.com.
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