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Rhiannon12866

(241,397 posts) Wed Aug 13, 2025, 05:30 AM Aug 13

The GOP Is Winning by Rigging the System--Shouldn't Democrats Do the Same? - Thom Hartmann

Democrats are finally talking about “fighting fire with fire.” Still, Republicans have been going after Democratic voters with flame throwers for two decades and now have the support of the Republicans on the Supreme Court, along with Trump’s efforts to involve the federal government in even worse voter suppression.

Democrats, in addition to gerrymandering, should start caging operations and challenging Republican voters the way the GOP has been doing against Democratic communities for decades. The resulting squeals that will come from Republican operatives and officials might provoke a change in the law outlawing caging and gerrymandering.

If the Democrats’ goal is to prevent the 2026 and 2028 elections from looking like those in Hungary and Russia, they need to be raising absolute hell and get on the ball quickly. Time’s a-wasting… - Aired on 08/12/2025.

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The GOP Is Winning by Rigging the System--Shouldn't Democrats Do the Same? - Thom Hartmann (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Aug 13 OP

No, sorry, Democrats do NOT 'rig' systems, elleng Aug 13 #1

Is this a G** damn joke? CommonHumanity Aug 13 #2

elleng

(140,500 posts)

1. No, sorry, Democrats do NOT 'rig' systems,

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Wed Aug 13, 2025, 05:33 AM

Aug 13

but rather use the rules. Gotta use them better.

CommonHumanity

(324 posts)

2. Is this a G** damn joke?

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Wed Aug 13, 2025, 08:42 AM

Aug 13

My title refers to both the video title and the reply above.

THERE ISN'T A "SYSTEM" IN PLACE IF ONLY ONE SIDE USES IT!! THE "SYSTEM" is gone!

Let me try a simple analogy:

My husband and I have a "system" for keeping the house clean. We each have our assigned chores. It works great. He decides to cop out on the "system". We no longer have a system for keeping the house clean because the "system" had two willing participants.

Our political system was based on two parties willing to abide by the rules (more or less with plenty of caveats, but still a mutually agreed upon system). That system no longer exists. It is now a matter of lying down and letting the repukes do whatever they want or fighting back. We are now operating in metaphorical civil was territory, not in a mutually agreed upon system. WAKE UP. (BTW, citing the term "Civil war" in no way means I advocate violence).

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