This is the most depressing thing on my mental radar right now. Feels like I’m back at square one given I grew up in an Indian state (Bihar) where elections were a joke, “booth capturing” by gangsters was rampant, and mafia orgs of various sorts determined who go elected.
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Americans don’t realize just how real the possibility of collapse of the electoral apparatus is. This is what it looks like. It’s not science fiction. Far too many of us from “democracies” have lived this shit that’s coming to the US now.
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At least things like gerrymandering and the electoral college have a veneer of procedural legitimacy to them. You may not like those things but at least they’re part of a legal scheme you can consent to. This is a kind of next level lawlessness taking root.
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I no longer trust native-born Americans’ sense of what’s going on. Exceptionalism is too deeply ingrained in your psyches for you to recognize how *not* unprecedented this is.
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You think you’re headed for an impossible state and surely something will stop it. The rest of the world sees reversion to the global historical mean
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The only thing exceptional about American politics is really the patronizing contempt Americans being to the idea of recognizing non-American histories as meaningful precedents to learn from and act on. It’s a political version of NIH syndrome. Not Invented Here.
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There is. They’re called voter drop boxes. In Ohio, they’re trying to kill them and we’re fighting like hell to push backhttps://operationgrant.org/emergency-action-item/ …
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Dems need better strategists asap, it's blowing my mind on the key losses being taken.
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I don’t think it’s a party failure problem. It’s not the Dems job to ensure free/fair elections m.
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There’s lots of folks thinking hard about how to do it. Options at the federal level are inadequate - Cong. oversight is too slow & the Trump Admin is in the habit of not complying with things that are embarrassing. So solutions are state by state where battes are raging
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Plus the federal courts aren’t a useful tool to stop this type of executive malfeasance. A TRO can halt an executive order or regulation until the case can be fully adjudicated. But courts have a hard time 2nd-guessing prospective harm from changes in business processes
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