Biden + a Republican Senate will stop the slide toward autocracy, but we will basically be treading water.
Biden + Democratic Senate means rapid changes (meaning a lot done in a year)
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With voter suppression, you have to get ahead of the curve (so to speak).
We went through this in California: Once you get enough Democrats elected, they can take steps to make it harder to cheat and suppress votes. Eventually, voter suppression ceases to be a problem.
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Texas has stunned me these past few weeks. I always figured Texas would turn blue AFTER the US Senate became Democratic (because the US Senate would make gerrymandering harder, etc).
But Texas is going faster than I expected.
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If you want to know what the future looks like in the US, my belief is that California tells the story.
Read this thread and notice the part about how the GOP, a shrinking majority, was able to gum up the works:
Slim chance that the US Supreme Court would allow a federal district court to overturn a question of Texas state voting law as determined by local TX officials including members of the state legislature, and the Texas Supreme Court.
When the wannabe strongmen act like they can steal the election, and everyone panics, this amplifies the con and gives it credence. justsecurity.org/72609/dont-bel…
Even with people amplifying the lie, we've seen that it doesn't work.
Look at Wisconsin in April.
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In April, the GOP did everything they could to steal that election.
Turns out, people don't like it when they know someone in power is trying to silence their vote.
Wisconsin voters overcame all the obstacles and the Democrats won.
If ballots are late because of deliberate sabotage, those obviously must be counted.
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Democrats as a rule have voted earlier than Republicans. So batches of late-arriving ballots are likely to have more or equal numbers of Republican ballots.
Did I mention that nobody should put a ballot in the mail at this point, even if your state has a long deadline?
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