I keep wondering if they are really just counting on Democrats to always remain more civil than they are.https://twitter.com/RepAdamSchiff/status/930272585979490304 …
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Or if they really are counting on never having to win a fair election again. It is either one of those two or this party is astonishingly short-sighted.
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Or maybe it's that Fox News has driven them all into believing conspiracy theories that the state is already assaulting them.
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And it's just like. Oh honey. Oh you sweet summer child. You have no IDEA what the state can do to destroy you. Ask black folks.
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And I don't mean blatant, obvious things like you know, enslavement. I mean housing discrimination, I mean gov't employees just denying you any and everything...
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I mean the state looking the other way when companies ACTUALLY discriminate against you... and that's before we even get creative!
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Y'all's political power is already hanging by a thread bc it is based on the unfair advantage our political system gives to small town and rural areas + gerrymandering + voter suppression.
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What if Dems dismantled all of that through barely-legal, norm-violating means? What if Dems restructured to give THEIR base disproportionate political power?
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And like... I'm against all that bc I believe in civil norms and I don't want this to descend into actual like... civic instability if not some kind of limited civil war.
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But surely they understand that if they embrace norm-breaking as their primary political strategy, eventually the other side HAS to do the same, right?
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