(June 25, 2022 at 11:37 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:(June 25, 2022 at 7:36 pm)Jehanne Wrote: We need to campaign for the reinstatement of Roe:
Can Roe v. Wade be reinstated...
No more Republican Presidents, at least conservative ones.
And I think that the path for such a future might be (at least theoretically) easy to pull off.
I’ve mentioned before that the only Republican President to be elected by a majority of the popular vote since I was born was Dubya in 2004. Bush’s first term and Trump’s only term only happened because of the Electoral College. Get rid of that, no more Republican presidents. And if the NPVIC ends up enacted by enough states (enough states have passed it for 190 of the 538 seats in the electoral college to be covered by it with 45 pending [Arizona, Michigan, and Pennsylvania]; theoretically, if those three states plus Florida or Texas enact it, we’ve got 270 right there), we’re well on our way to decimating the Republican Party’s future chances at the White House for the foreseeable future.
Another factor to consider is that many red-leaning states have these bullshit regulations on who’s allowed to vote and how. This usually has the effect of reducing voter turnout, especially of demographics less likely to vote for Republicans, and sometimes, if not always, that’s explicitly the point. Get rid of those restrictions, you’d likely never see another Republican in the White House. And Trump agrees on this point.
If this works the way I expect it to, nothing short of a radical sea change in their politics (ideally to something less batshit and less hostile to the existence of people who aren’t white, cisgender, male, Christian, and wealthy) will get them in.
And Shrub the war criminal only "won" through mass voter disenfranchisement (over two million Americans had their right to vote stolen because of the colour of their skin) and ball9t stuffing (whole counties in the rust belt returned numbers for Shrub that were well in excess of their r3gistered residents).
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