Mark Small

We have to make sure our anger does some good. A minority has taken the WH, controls the Senate and thus has placed more nominees on SCOTUS. We can look at the “big picture” - and yes, next Tuesday is huge. 3/13

Also, realize two things: 1) all politics is local and 2) In a 2-party system, if you concede 1 party to forces of hatred, you’ve lost half the battle before it’s started. In 2010 the tea “party,” with the assistance of Koch money, bagged the GOP. 4/13

They won a lot of local offices. Gerrymandering is done by State legislatures. If one party fills enough local offices that party controls the State and, thus, the whole governmental structure. The tea “party” is a minority, but they had help, too. 5/13

First, they had $$$ from right wing interest groups. Second they had complacency by people who didn’t pay attention. And third: they had people like Jim Bopp, a Terre Haute, Indiana, lawyer who was trial counsel in the Citizens United case. 6/13

A few years before tea partiers showed up at public events in Revolutionary War costumes, Mr Bopp was re-writing the rules of the Indiana Republican Party. The GOP is a not-for-profit corporation that wants control - especially of its own organization. 7/13

The Democratic Party might seem chaotic, but this iteration of the GOP is vile. The Dems are like the Federation of Planets and the GOP is made up of Romulans. Democrats argue and yell at each other. In the GOP they eat worms and kill people. 8/13

I’m the precinct committee person (“PC”) in Washington Township, Marion County, Indiana, precinct 21-01. We can’t cede the GOP to the people who hijacked it beginning in about 1964. If, on November 4, 2020, we still have freedom of speech, we need to get to work. 9/13

If you’ve complained about one party being too right-wing and the other party trying to be right wing, while majority of people hold left-wing ideas, you shouldn’t fret. Don’t go to a “3rd party”: too many obstacles are in your way. 10/13