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Tuesday, November 30th, 2021

Republicans are quietly rigging election maps to ensure permanent rule

Author:     David Pepper
Source:     The Guardian (U.K.)
Publication Date:     Sun 28 Nov 2021 06.30 EST
 Link: Republicans are quietly rigging election maps to ensure permanent rule
Stephan:   While the media focuses on morons like Lauren Boebert, and the failure of Merrick Garland to act, the long strategy of the christofascists is playing out. We are going to know in 2022 whether they have succeeded. Our election system has been rigged to keep White racist christofascists in power, in control of economics and social policies. Behind the the Hawleys, Greene-Talyors, Boeberts and other MAGAt grotesques, unwitting clowns whose function is to catch your attention,  there are people with enormous wealth. They have hired neuroscientists, social scientists, psychologists, and psychiatrists and paid them, through think tanks, to study the psychophysiology of politics, and design ways to put their priorities into power (see SR archive for my paper on this.) And now they are playing it out.
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The long-term health of American democracy is in peril, to a degree far worse than people imagine. But not where most people are looking.

While many eyes go to Washington DC or Mar-a-Lago, the attack on democracy is actually most concentrated and coordinated in state capitals. Whether it’s gerrymandering or voter suppression or attacks on offices that provide needed checks and balances – the states have become widely undemocratic. As I outline in my book Laboratories of Autocracy, the consequences of this anti-democratic movement are only getting worse.

The past decade in Ohio, where I served in recent years as chair of the state Democratic party, shows how bad it can get – and how quickly.

When Fox News called Ohio for Barack Obama in 2012, it meant he’d be president for another term. Ohio’s Democratic senator Sherrod Brown also won handily that night. But how did these victories in America’s bellwether state translate at the congressional level?

Not at all.

Even though it was Democratic in 2012, a state that only […]

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3 Comments

  1. Lori on Tuesday, November 30, 2021 at 8:02 am

    Two things I believe should be illegal – rigging election maps, and government candidates and lawmakers being able to take bribes. Both are an intentional attack on our nations democracy. Both are designed for the success of a Party or wealthy corporation, not for the success of WE the people.

    Where maps have already changed, like for instance in Montana, making it impossible for indigent Native Americans on reservations without cars, to get to a polling place, there should be buses provided to get them there by the Party who changed the election map!

    • Sue on Tuesday, November 30, 2021 at 9:52 am

      MT is doing this to make sure that Jon Tester doesn’t get re elected. We moved away in June. I cannot stand what this beautiful purple state is turning into. Hunting down and destroying by whatever means necessary wolves, disenfranchising Native Americans, anti mask and other crazy behavior. After over 40 years, we bid our state good bye and I am sad to say so. But I can’t watch this anymore.

  2. eric on Tuesday, November 30, 2021 at 3:19 pm

    It’s even worse than that. GQPers are going for the local council and school board seats.