The high court’s new majority may strike down the state’s abortion ban and gerrymanders, but Republicans have already signaled they’ll try impeaching judges.
Republican lawmakers have signaled that they will use their gerrymandered majorities to fight the court. Several Republican said in the run-up to Tuesday, before Protasiewicz even won, that they would consider impeaching her and removing her from office.
Republicans know they can’t win fairly and will cheat and steal to stay in power.
Shit like this has always how politics worked in the US, even back in the colonial days. The American Revolution was basically rich landowners getting huffy that they didn’t have all the power.
There’s more people saying the quiet part out loud, now, but it’s always been about getting one over on your opponent. It’d be nice if it was about representing the best interests of the people, and there are definitely quite a few who embody that… but they rarely get any kind of measurable power.
The only way to change that is to acknowledge it and resolve to change it.
Basically all the names on the ballot are randomised so people who number all the boxes in order of the ballot, 1-6 or however many, become statistically more equal across candidates. Many US states have the incumbant or primary state party always in the leading positions giving them an advantage with throwaway voters.
Republicans know they can’t win fairly and will cheat and steal to stay in power.
Welcome to politics, is this your first day?
It’s just tiring how Republicans can openly subvert the will of the voters and face zero consequences for it, even from their own party.
This is not normal, don’t pretend that it is.
Normal and good are also not synonymous.
Shit like this has always how politics worked in the US, even back in the colonial days. The American Revolution was basically rich landowners getting huffy that they didn’t have all the power.
There’s more people saying the quiet part out loud, now, but it’s always been about getting one over on your opponent. It’d be nice if it was about representing the best interests of the people, and there are definitely quite a few who embody that… but they rarely get any kind of measurable power.
The only way to change that is to acknowledge it and resolve to change it.
So that’s a yes.
If you have time, can you explain randomized ballots? I looked it up but got conflicting results.
Basically all the names on the ballot are randomised so people who number all the boxes in order of the ballot, 1-6 or however many, become statistically more equal across candidates. Many US states have the incumbant or primary state party always in the leading positions giving them an advantage with throwaway voters.