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========== Minority rule - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html depends on getting enough of the masses to act against their own interests - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#political%20ideology%20for%20the%20masses and on the constitutional provisions that were intended to protect the ultimate minority rule - slavery. https://www.reduce-rural-bias.net/ But with demographics and educated ideology going increasingly against them, the defenders of minority rule must embrace ever more extreme defenses. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/01/republicans-gay-marriage-senate-bill-culture-wars/ == About political scrapbook - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/about.html #PS1minority ===== comments 72 impact 4998 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-12-01 ratio 2 react 833 reactrate 0 shares 5 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 756 title Minority rule - topic minority wordrate 0 words 60 audclicks 756 commentsimpress 72 epoch Lifetime ID 1817130161964828 impress 3437 matchedlinkclicks 367 matchedotherclicks 389 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "12/01/2022 23:12" rcs 133 reach 2172 reactions 56 sharesimpress 5 title "Opinion | The MAGA cult should face facts: America will never be theirs ‘again’" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1817130161964828 ========== Right-to-lifers are not really about loving the incomparable and inviolable worth of every human life.” They show that in their disregard for the born - evident in their support of Trumpist Dixiecrat minority rule, which aims to protect the megadonors from having to pay to support poor people, including poor babies. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html Right to lifers are all about social control, particularly of men over women - patriarchalism. They really fit right in with Trumpism. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/opinion/midterms-abortion-trump.html So it was not an incongruous mistake to align with minority rule - the megadonors have the money and the right-to-lifers have an essential single-issue voter constituency big enough to carry some close elections - but not as many as they thought! https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop A match made in heaven? More likely the other place - where power trumps love. If they wanted to improve the prospects of the unborn, they'd have to start by improving the prospects of the born - and they're not going to get there traveling on the Trumpist Dixiecrat highway toward minority rule. == More about political scrapbook - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/about.html #PS1minority ===== comments 37 impact 14858 impactrate 1 negative 0 posted 2022-11-21 ratio 1 react 849 reactrate 0 shares 7 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 805 title Right-to-lifers are not really about loving the topic minority wordrate 0 words 175 audclicks 805 commentsimpress 37 epoch Lifetime ID 1809543879390123 impress 2695 matchedlinkclicks 233 matchedotherclicks 572 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/21/2022 22:11" rcs 74 reach 1440 reactions 30 sharesimpress 7 title "Opinion | The Pro-Life Movement Made a Bargain With Trump, and It Has Paid Dearly" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1809543879390123 ========== God gave men free will - a little lower than the angels - so men could CHOOSE to do good - or evil. And so the GOP megadonors, observing the basis of Trump's success, concluded that the time was ripe to CHOOSE to permanently install minority rule. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html GOP politicians, whether Trumpist Dixiecrats or not, CHOSE to go along with the plan, and with the essential help of the Trumpist media, convinced the voter base to support the megadonor class, against the voters' own interests. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/08/opinion/midterms-republicans-election-denialism.html They all CHOSE - none of them were forced. Their next choice - let Trump define Trumpism, let DeSantis define Trumpism, or reject Trumpism and minority rule altogether and re-affirm the Enlightenment ideals of America's founders - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-enlightenment.html More about political scrapbook - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/about.html #PS1minority ===== comments 49 impact 35738 impactrate 2 negative 0 posted 2022-11-08 ratio 2 react 2814 reactrate 0 shares 37 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 2728 title God gave men free will - a little lower than the angels - topic minority wordrate 0 words 127 audclicks 2728 commentsimpress 49 epoch Lifetime ID 1798927963785048 impress 14304 matchedlinkclicks 960 matchedotherclicks 1768 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/08/2022 13:11" rcs 203 reach 7250 reactions 117 sharesimpress 37 title "Opinion | No One Forced Republicans to Do Any of These Things" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1798927963785048 ========== inflation is temporary but losing our democracy could be permanent https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/06/opinions/midterms-are-vuca-election-opinion-column-galant/index.html Ukrainians would rather survive a winter without power, heat, or water, than submit to minority rule. Think of Valley Forge. https://www.kxxv.com/news/ukrainians-prepare-for-a-winter-with-no-heat-water-or-power So now Americans would rather submit to minority rule, and turn their backs on the rest of the world, because they are unhappy about gas prices? - (not that a change of Congress will affect either gas prices or inflation in general). Think of Vichy and Munich. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/05/opinions/gop-midterm-election-messaging-economy-stewart/index.html If so, that's the end of the American Century, and the dawn of something - different. #PS1minority ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-11-06 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title inflation is temporary but losing our democracy could topic minority wordrate 0 words 94 epoch Lifetime ID 1797663647244813 impress 18 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "11/06/2022 22:11" rcs 1 reach 16 reactions 1 title "Opinion: Democrats are out of touch with American voters | CNN" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1797663647244813 ========== For the GOP megadonor class, the great takeaway from Jan 6 was how little the main perpetrators - the funders and propagandists - will be punished in the market or the courts. So there's no downside to fanning divisiveness and violence in support of minority rule. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html The original Dixiecrats knew this - the whole Southern plantation system was built upon keeping the poor whites focused on the blacks. Now it's understood nationally by those determined to strengthen minority rule by all available means. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/30/paul-pelosi-attack-republican-bothsidesism-false-equivalence/ #PS1minority ===== impact 8 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-10-31 ratio 17 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title For the GOP megadonor class, the great takeaway from topic minority wordrate 0 words 84 audclicks 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1792998487711329 impress 20 matchedotherclicks 1 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/31/2022 21:10" rcs 1 reach 17 reactions 1 title "Opinion | Don’t blame ‘both sides.’ The right is driving political violence." type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1792998487711329 ========== There's nothing new about minority rule in America - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html The feudal concept was imported with the English Cavaliers who became the Southern planter-slaveholder class, and ingrained in the Constitution. While party primaries are part of the minority rule apparatus, simply forbidding sore-loser laws in Federal elections would go a long way to crippling it. Adding ranked-choice voting would be even better. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/27/america-primaries-driving-polarization-radicalization/ But expect determined opposition from the minority that benefits from its power, and knows that anything that enables the majority is a blow against it. == More on political scrapbook - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/about.html #PS1minority ===== comments 74 impact 30430 impactrate 2 negative 0 posted 2022-10-28 ratio 2 react 3272 reactrate 0 shares 28 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 3170 title There's nothing new about minority rule in America - topic minority wordrate 0 words 93 audclicks 3170 commentsimpress 74 epoch Lifetime ID 1790691757942002 impress 13522 matchedlinkclicks 1020 matchedotherclicks 2150 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/28/2022 21:10" rcs 218 reach 9350 reactions 116 sharesimpress 28 title "Opinion | America is now a tyranny of the minority" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1790691757942002 ========== Will the Supreme Court reactionary majority do its duty to the Federalist Society that groomed them? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/12/us/politics/leonard-leo-courts-dark-money.html The independent state legislature theory - another coup to support minority rule - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html needs a legal fig leaf. https://brennancenter.substack.com/p/spread-the-word-about-the-dangerous #PS1minority ===== impact 11 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-10-13 ratio 12 react 3 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 3 title Will the Supreme Court reactionary majority do its duty topic minority wordrate 0 words 35 audclicks 3 epoch Lifetime ID 1777695182574993 impress 40 matchedlinkclicks 3 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/13/2022 07:10" rcs 1 reach 37 reactions 1 title "Spread the Word About the Dangerous “Independent State Legislature Theory”" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1777695182574993 ========== America's most capable defender of minority rule! https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2022-credos.html#gop Long the leading groomer of reactionary Catholic Supreme Court nominees, he's branched out into wider funneling of dark money from GOP megadonors to the right GOP candidates and organizations, keeping a nice cut for himself. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/12/us/politics/leonard-leo-courts-dark-money.html Mitch McConnell would be lost without him. And vice versa. Thought questions - how does Leo feel about separation of church and state? divine right of kings/presidents? Edgardo Mortara? the Syllabus of Errors? papal infallibility? #PS1minority ===== impact 8 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-10-12 ratio 28 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title America's most capable defender of minority rule! topic minority wordrate 0 words 78 audclicks 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1777337865944058 impress 29 matchedlinkclicks 1 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "10/12/2022 20:10" reach 28 title "Leonard Leo Pushed the Courts Right. Now He’s Aiming at American Society." type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1777337865944058 ========== Minority rule depends on keeping the single-issue constituencies on board and fired up without turning off swing voters and independents. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html If they concede too much to the patriarchalists or other constituencies they will win the primary and lose the general election. So GOP must avoid giving them everything they want without saying so - https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-abortion-us-supreme-court-government-and-politics-legislature-48279e8a14816377032b491157c72062 But there's no agreement on the best tactics. #PS1minority ===== impact 6 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-08-18 ratio 14 react 1 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 sumclicks 1 title Minority rule depends on keeping the single-issue topic minority wordrate 0 words 63 audclicks 1 epoch Lifetime ID 1733415947002917 impress 17 matchedotherclicks 1 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "08/18/2022 06:08" reach 14 title "Post-Roe differences surface in GOP over new abortion rules" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1733415947002917 ========== How the Dixiecrat Cavaliers took over the Republican Party and turned it to their traditional interests of protecting minority rule. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/04/dana-milbank-republican-destructionists-book-excerpt/ Same old strategy - convince poor people that their enemy is each other rather than rich people. It's 400 years old in America, much older in Europe. #PS1minority ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-08-05 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title How the Dixiecrat Cavaliers took over the Republican Party topic minority wordrate 0 words 48 epoch Lifetime ID 1724425911235254 impress 16 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "08/05/2022 06:08" rcs 1 reach 16 reactions 1 title "Opinion | The GOP is sick. It didn’t start with Trump — and won’t end with him." type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1724425911235254 ========== How Mexico's abolition of slavery led to the Alamo, the Mexican War, and the American Civil War. Then, as now, minority rule depended on a precarious balance of power in the Senate, and when that was threatened, war ensued. Then, as now, mythologies were manufactured to distract from unwholesome reality. https://www.keyreporter.org/articles/2022/interview-with-alice-baumgartner-the-u-s-war-with-mexico-and-the-coming-of-the-civil-war/ https://www.keyreporter.org/book-reviews/2022/south-to-freedom-runaway-slaves-to-mexico-and-the-road-to-the-civil-war/ #PS1minority ===== impact 5 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-06-27 ratio 5 react 1 reactrate 0 shares 1 sharesrate 0 title How Mexico's abolition of slavery led to the Alamo, the topic minority wordrate 0 words 51 epoch Lifetime ID 1696250204052825 impress 6 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "06/27/2022 20:06" rcs 1 reach 5 sharesimpress 1 title "South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War – The Key Reporter" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1696250204052825 ========== “Voters don’t pay deep attention to how things don’t get done,” McConnell thanks them for their attention deficit. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-congress.html McConnell doesn't hold huge campaign rallies in stadiums and has little to do with social media - so Trump doesn't understand how McConnell can thus be so much more effective than Trump. In Trump's defense, one can say that McConnell would be a dismal failure in reality-TV. But his interest is in real-politik. While Trump noisily stumbles on tactics and strategy - having none - McConnell is silently full steam ahead on the same tactics and strategy he's always had - and making great strides. He is the single most capable and consistent defender of minority rule - and is fortifying it in Congress, the federal judiciary, and red state legislatures. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/20/mitch-mcconnell-filibuster-brutal-biden-polls/ #PS1minority ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-01-20 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title “Voters don’t pay deep attention to how things don’t topic minority wordrate 0 words 130 epoch Lifetime ID 1584700481874465 impress 5 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "01/20/2022 21:01" reach 4 title "Opinion | Mitch McConnell’s plan is working" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1584700481874465 ========== You can't achieve unity if the other side doesn't want it. And sowing disunity among the masses is how minority rule works. Trump helped the ruling class overcome its shyness about boldly fortifying minority rule. https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/16/opinions/promise-biden-couldnt-fulfill-opinion-column-galant/index.html If a foreign policy crisis erupted now in Ukraine or Taiwan or Korea, GOP would oppose anything Biden does and then criticize him for doing nothing. Putin, Xi, and Kim are counting on it. #PS1minority ===== impact 0 impactrate 0 negative 0 posted 2022-01-16 reactrate 0 sharesrate 0 title You can't achieve unity if the other side doesn't want it. topic minority wordrate 0 words 70 epoch Lifetime ID 1581658348845345 impress 10 pageid 534332363577954 pagename "Political scrapbook" posted "01/16/2022 08:01" reach 8 title "Opinion: One big problem in Biden's first year" type Link URL https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1581658348845345