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12 Mar, 5 tweets, 2 min read
I really need some help from my friends to make sense of this.

The idea of negotiating away issues and positions on voting rights is always fascinating, but not reasonable or rational. The constitution is clear: Voting is a right. So exactly how much voting rights are too much?
Why is it that the folks who aways wind up losing rights are the last people to receive them, fought the hardest for them, and still have no assurance of them? Who in white America is willing to compromise away any of their voting rights? Has that question ever even been asked?
If not, then why the hell is it reasonable for blacks and otber people of color to have ours traded away on the idaa of compromise with folks who have no intentions of right, fairness or honesty? Thus, idea of compromise on fundamental rights is lazy and intellectually dishonest.
Compromise on voting rights is silly when red states have no intentions or expectations of compromising on their obsession with stealing voting rights and elections?

So I need a few reasonable folks to help point out the flaw of that thinking.
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12 Mar
Hmmm...

Something has been clear for a long time that most Americans get, but conservatives don't. The ability to give is power, real power. Consequently, it's our ability to give as the richest country on earth that made us the most powerful country in the history of mankind.
Of course there must be expectations and reciprocity. But when you give, it's generally easier for others to give in return. When you have what they need, and you're fair and just, trust is established. Then they give what they have. Stability, loyalty, and confidence can exist.
Loyal, trustworthy friends are willing to sacrifice for their friends. That's how treaties are made, alliances are built, and partnerships last. Anyone with a true partnership or friendship knows this to be true.
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The US lost more lives from #COVID19 in the three months before Biden was inaugurated that during the entire rest of the year before. The economy was in shambles. Trump did literally nothing but plan an insurrection after the election.
Now upon the passage of the relief bill, Trump wants credit for the addressing the crisis. And, McConnell is too anxious to lie and say that everything was rosy and the US was turning the corner before Biden got into office.
There is nothing that's too craven for republicans. They obviously live in a different United States, on a different planet earth, from the rest of us.
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8 Mar
An example of institutionalized structural racism:

1. Laws exist in all 50 states making militia groups illegal. Yet they only people who are regularly policed, interrogated and harassed are groups like the Black Panther Party.
2. Racist white militia groups march with and and uniforms claiming to provide "security" and to "assist" police. Yet because those groups are illegal, how is anything that they do legal, let alone acceptable or tolerated?
3. Racist white militia groups come into black communities with guns for "enforcement" during peaceful protests. Yet the violence that occurs is almost uniformly instigated by militia members. Whereas, unarmed blacks are called rioters and dissidents for disrupting people meals.
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2 Mar
Although I was a kid, I do vaguely recall the infighting and dissent with the democratic party between 1968 - 1972. From what I could tell, it was pretty bitter and acrimonious even to the mind of a kid who was more interested in Ultraman, Marine Boy, and Gun Smoke than politics.
Democrats managed to get it together, sort of, by 1976 to elect Carter. But, remnants of those struggles continue through today. Yet at no point do I remember republicans extending a hand to assist democrats in dealing with our political problem, or supporting us as we struggled.
On the contrary, the GOP exploited the opportunity at every turn. So Carter lost in 1980 and, just over a decade later, we had lost both congressional houses.
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28 Feb
The republicans have completely misread the history and specific factors. They thought they could just obstruct and sabotage ACA, too, and it would just fall apart while becoming unpopular. It didn't. It became the popular standard with the people.
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Despite the fact that many republicans hate democrats, even republican voters know that the democrats are the one governing party to get stuff done. Now with over 500,000 dead and a crushed economy, they pretend they can do the same old thing, and get the same results as 2010.
Frank Luntz is dead wrong in this article. None of it has anything to do with the GOP articulating their policies. They have none. That GOP M.O. is dead. The only way they can be half way assured of "success" is to be confident that their voter suppression schemes will work.
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The only thing that'll change the minds of opportunistic, cowardly GOP congressmen and women is when they start getting killed in the streets at home or the halls of the Capitol by rabid racist insurrectionists and rightwing extremists, too. But, then they'll be dead, won't they?
Some of them think they're being cute and coy. Others think that they are immune to being harmed because they parrot the words of the insurrectionists or even cooperate in the conspiracies. Others are just to afraid of everything to say a word.
The republicans are essentially making coffee and sandwiches for the mass marauders who are plundering the castle.
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