There is lots of talk on social media (so I am told) that we are losing the democracy that we all care so dearly about….the GOP has worked tirelessly for over 50 years to take the people out of any decision making situations
Now with Donny in charge their true colors are exposed and they can move as quickly as possible before the next election.
The one thing that makes democracy so desirable is….the people….
When the ancient Greeks came up with the concept of democracy, they envisioned a form of government in which the power rested with many, and not just a monarch or some other potentially despotic tyrant.
That’s quite literally what “democracy” means — “rule by the people.”
Of course, “the people” only meant Greek free men. After all, who knows what kind of craziness women, slaves and non-citizens would have come up with if they had been given a say in running ancient Greece.
Therefore, it is a bit unfair to criticize Republicans as “threats to democracy.”
Sure, when viewed through the lens of modern democracies, that label is certainly valid. After all, they are methodically trying to destroy the type of democracy that took more than 200 years to establish and improve in the United States until it was mostly inclusive (with more work to be done all the time).
However, the GOP very much embodies the spirit of the ancient Greeks by constantly trying to limit who gets a say in the government… and it ain’t “the people.” At least not if they vote for stuff Republicans don’t like.
Take Missouri, for example
Last year, voters there emphatically backed Proposition A, a ballot initiative that increased the state’s minimum wage, indexed it to inflation, and required employers to provide paid sick leave.
While these are the kind of policies Republicans like to dismiss as “socialism,” the people in the deep-red state (Donald Trump won it by 18 points in 2024) liked them quite a bit and passed the initiative by a wide margin.
As it turns out, they shouldn’t have bothered, or gotten excited about a minimum wage increase that was going to benefit a quarter of the state’s workers. That’s because Republican legislators in the Missouri General Assembly swiftly passed a bill to reverse the changes.
The GOP Is Working Overtime to Take the People Out of Democracy
Such tactics as gerrymandering….where the party picks its voters not the voters picking the party…..and now we have a full body assault on voting.
So the question now is….is it too late to repair the damage that the GOP and Donny are doing to this country?
Will the voter finally see what many of us have seen coming for many years?
Can this democracy be saved?
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
The democracy cannot be saved and we are going to go full fascist– every sign points to it–this will be a generational thing….too many people are unconcerned abut what is happening or do not know what to do….and, in fact, cannot do much of anything as all the guardrails are now all but totally dismantled….
too many people are unconcerned abut what is happening — BINGO!
Take it to the streets….damn the torpedoes full speed ahead. chuq
Deocracy is fading fast in many western countries. Our UK government recently passed a bill slightly increasing the State Pension received by old peop[le, and the National Living Wage (slightly higher than minimum wage) for working people. But it turned out they only did that to immediately pitch almost 100,000 people over the £12,500 a year tax threshold, allowing them to tax those incomes at 20%. All of those people ended up 18% worse off! Nobody voted them in to do that, and it certainly was not in the pre-election manifesto.
Best wishes, Pete.
Sounds typical….idle promises and rhetoric…..chuq
we are an embarrassment to ourselves at this point, and there’s not much we can do but hang on until the ornage one leaves, dies, or both.
True but I gotta keep typing…..LOL chuq