| Title | Date | Im- press | En- gage | Ex- pand | URL- clicks | Like | Re- tweet | Link to Text | Link to Tweet |
| If more people vote, that changes the result! | 2020-12-28 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1343664396749295617 | 1343664396749295617 |
| Is anything holding our country together right now - | 2020-12-28 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1343440794980499456 | 1343440794980499456 |
| Trump empowers states by disempowering the Federal | 2020-12-28 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1343406457522249728 | 1343406457522249728 |
| Democracies can't handle unexpected crises. | 2020-12-28 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1343399898494865408 | 1343399898494865408 |
| Is the alternate-reality chasm unbridgeable? | 2020-12-28 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1343389830378528769 | 1343389830378528769 |
| The immortal legend of voter fraud! | 2020-12-27 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1343218928244297729 | 1343218928244297729 |
| A voting suppressor's work is never done! Minority | 2020-12-26 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1342838682135396355 | 1342838682135396355 |
| Always look on the bright side of life! | 2020-12-24 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1342137344053239808 | 1342137344053239808 |
| Eliminate sore-loser laws and establish | 2020-12-23 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1341769404908900352 | 1341769404908900352 |
| What is it that Romney doesn't like about minority rule? | 2020-12-21 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1341037545535094784 | 1341037545535094784 |
| Necessary post-Trump reforms | 2020-12-19 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1340100528152317953 | 1340100528152317953 |
| Can Congress pass a two-day extension? | 2020-12-18 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1340077727093673986 | 1340077727093673986 |
| Recommendations for American democracy. | 2020-12-18 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1339990386475823104 | 1339990386475823104 |
| Control of the House now tends to better reflect popular | 2020-12-18 | 43 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1339986426063069186 | 1339986426063069186 |
| Prescription for a new year - | 2020-12-17 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1339666389682909184 | 1339666389682909184 |
| Who deserves a Medal of Freedom? | 2020-12-17 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1339644470279557120 | 1339644470279557120 |
| Want to improve democracy and get a year-end tax deduction? | 2020-12-17 | 39 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1339435222744481792 | 1339435222744481792 |
| "Ideals tell us what we like to be. Compromises tell us | 2020-12-16 | 43 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1339353666684215296 | 1339353666684215296 |
| Did America triumph over sedition? Or barely survive, | 2020-12-16 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1339346317097672704 | 1339346317097672704 |
| Ideas for restoring Congress. | 2020-12-16 | 34 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1339294476267712514 | 1339294476267712514 |
| What's worse than unlimited dark money? Unlimited | 2020-12-16 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1339211087179182081 | 1339211087179182081 |
| How to overcome divisiveness in one kind of district - | 2020-12-14 | 37 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1338329506277249024 | 1338329506277249024 |
| The downhill slide to dictatorship. | 2020-12-13 | 46 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1338258404423262209 | 1338258404423262209 |
| It's about time, but more needs to be done. | 2020-12-12 | 43 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1337759857076682752 | 1337759857076682752 |
| Why don't the red states revive their glorious past by | 2020-12-10 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1337120341085233152 | 1337120341085233152 |
| The "failed election" law needs to be updated to deal with | 2020-12-10 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1337065878370729986 | 1337065878370729986 |
| What checked Trump's ambition? | 2020-12-10 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1337057383911133184 | 1337057383911133184 |
| Trump allies in fake non-profit attack democracy in favor | 2020-12-07 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1335953387297198080 | 1335953387297198080 |
| A direct popular vote is not the answer, | 2020-12-07 | 53 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1335772798220816385 | 1335772798220816385 |
| How can Trumpists suppress the rising tide of democracy? | 2020-12-05 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1335230468619292674 | 1335230468619292674 |
| Diverse ideas how to improve American life - | 2020-12-05 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1335108825758588928 | 1335108825758588928 |
| Trump showed needed reforms. | 2020-12-04 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1334885187855949826 | 1334885187855949826 |
| How much free education do feudal serfs need anyway? | 2020-12-02 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1333983111093186560 | 1333983111093186560 |
| Lessons to be learned, work to be done. | 2020-12-02 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1333977768590077953 | 1333977768590077953 |
| Republicans don't hide their agenda any more - | 2020-11-30 | 42 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1333232060308176897 | 1333232060308176897 |
| How Koch organizes Latinos for reactionary politicians to | 2020-11-29 | 41 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1333171760468877313 | 1333171760468877313 |
| Legislation for sale! | 2020-11-29 | 40 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1333134476667281408 | 1333134476667281408 |
| How the primary system, sore-loser laws, and lack | 2020-11-29 | 38 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1333130223215230976 | 1333130223215230976 |
| George Washington saw it all coming. | 2020-11-28 | 34 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1332517199014051841 | 1332517199014051841 |
| It's time everybody understood how our democracy works. | 2020-11-27 | 42 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1332185950051471360 | 1332185950051471360 |
| How ironic that suppressing minorities is a pillar of | 2020-11-26 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1331771260536143874 | 1331771260536143874 |
| We know a lot of what needs to be done. We just need | 2020-11-26 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1331767300567887873 | 1331767300567887873 |
| Need a prayer for Thanksgiving? | 2020-11-26 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1331764088129503232 | 1331764088129503232 |
| Next time could be worse - Trump has made straight in the | 2020-11-25 | 97 | 28 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1331748039074091010 | 1331748039074091010 |
| Will there be enough heroes next time? And why does | 2020-11-25 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1331737820461887489 | 1331737820461887489 |
| Too much money is not the answer. But the question | 2020-11-24 | 58 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1331045572912979970 | 1331045572912979970 |
| Laying the foundations for future voter suppression | 2020-11-23 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1330862775657144320 | 1330862775657144320 |
| Persons vs inhabitants. | 2020-11-20 | 31 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1329859655636434944 | 1329859655636434944 |
| No voter fraud but lots of voter suppression. Anybody | 2020-11-19 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1329448097651503104 | 1329448097651503104 |
| What about the Electoral College? | 2020-11-19 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1329296505430130689 | 1329296505430130689 |
| The polls failed because so many people don't trust the | 2020-11-17 | 41 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1328833107303174144 | 1328833107303174144 |
| States rights - the progressive answer to reactionary | 2020-11-16 | 94 | 24 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1328351198722842630 | 1328351198722842630 |
| Alito is bothered by executive overreach! | 2020-11-16 | 61 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1328189305718669313 | 1328189305718669313 |
| Don't bother Mitch with talk about democracy. | 2020-11-15 | 40 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1328096737781633024 | 1328096737781633024 |
| One dollar, one vote. | 2020-11-14 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1327479479518732290 | 1327479479518732290 |
| Minority rule is all about stealing election after election | 2020-11-11 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1326594230970589185 | 1326594230970589185 |
| Divided government doesn't facilitate compromise. | 2020-11-10 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1326003941335732224 | 1326003941335732224 |
| In 1876 and 2000 it depended on the character of one | 2020-11-10 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1325954849943379968 | 1325954849943379968 |
| Libertarians might well get credit for electing Biden, | 2020-11-09 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1325940460204879873 | 1325940460204879873 |
| Time for the ideology of problem solving. | 2020-11-09 | 39 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1325918229076692992 | 1325918229076692992 |
| "If Republicans don't challenge and change the | 2020-11-09 | 37 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1325894960034377733 | 1325894960034377733 |
| The power of One dollar One vote! | 2020-11-07 | 62 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1325086922633482242 | 1325086922633482242 |
| What it's actually like to count ballots | 2020-11-07 | 77 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1324950774460284928 | 1324950774460284928 |
| We are stuck with the Electoral College - the current | 2020-11-06 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1324862140075765760 | 1324862140075765760 |
| Puerto Rican statehood? | 2020-11-05 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1324199228126625793 | 1324199228126625793 |
| Get rid of direct election of senators? Cruz and | 2020-11-05 | 67 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1324196771229102081 | 1324196771229102081 |
| Why does nothing ever change in politics? Isn't Congress | 2020-11-03 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1323530083462606848 | 1323530083462606848 |
| Ranked-choice voting tests Maine. It's safe to vote for | 2020-11-01 | 77 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1322743944506085376 | 1322743944506085376 |
| Some day we'll thank Trump - for motivating so many women | 2020-10-31 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1322664889836470272 | 1322664889836470272 |
| Who knew! Roger Stone and Q were active in 1860, too! | 2020-10-31 | 48 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1322663092539387904 | 1322663092539387904 |
| Give Trump credit for waking us up. Government is | 2020-10-31 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1322659923717574656 | 1322659923717574656 |
| Nobody else will come to our rescue! | 2020-10-31 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1322405278915063809 | 1322405278915063809 |
| What have we lost? | 2020-10-31 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1322349349964185601 | 1322349349964185601 |
| Whose ballots get rejected? And how many close | 2020-10-31 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1322345206830649346 | 1322345206830649346 |
| Design and human factors are important! | 2020-10-31 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1322344573436243969 | 1322344573436243969 |
| Now a country no better than other countries - but | 2020-10-31 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1322330818430210049 | 1322330818430210049 |
| Liberal democracy has support in India. Just not from | 2020-10-31 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1322329667882266624 | 1322329667882266624 |
| Why did they even bother trying? Why not just make | 2020-10-30 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1321976375163510784 | 1321976375163510784 |
| Will in-your-face voter suppression backfire? | 2020-10-29 | 58 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1321962169508929541 | 1321962169508929541 |
| Not easy to maintain minority rule! | 2020-10-29 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1321846005835288576 | 1321846005835288576 |
| Slavery - segregation - suppression. | 2020-10-29 | 38 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1321844558460669960 | 1321844558460669960 |
| Make voting mandatory? Not likely - Republican minority | 2020-10-29 | 40 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1321677457573867520 | 1321677457573867520 |
| How far Trump might go is far from the biggest question. | 2020-10-29 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1321650999191220226 | 1321650999191220226 |
| Constitutional amendments for Democrats to consider | 2020-10-26 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1320817489748520960 | 1320817489748520960 |
| People who don't vote could change the country. But they | 2020-10-26 | 36 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1320737034588147715 | 1320737034588147715 |
| People power doesn't work any more. It needs US | 2020-10-26 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1320528046323986433 | 1320528046323986433 |
| End minority rule! | 2020-10-23 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1319769344004349952 | 1319769344004349952 |
| Democracy is a threat to minority rule. | 2020-10-23 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1319704632612904960 | 1319704632612904960 |
| Government of the dollars, by the dollars, for the dollars. | 2020-10-23 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1319690893809520642 | 1319690893809520642 |
| This ship has sailed, but let's do something about campaign | 2020-10-21 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1319030789334396928 | 1319030789334396928 |
| Who said this and when? "[my opponent] has achieved a | 2020-10-21 | 38 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1319022119573835776 | 1319022119573835776 |
| "Biden may believe that there are 4-8 Republicans who | 2020-10-19 | 41 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1318021337655308288 | 1318021337655308288 |
| 78 is too old for president. 87 is too old for senator. | 2020-10-18 | 38 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1317950287340920832 | 1317950287340920832 |
| NOW will (the surviving) Republicans get interested in | 2020-10-18 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1317923096150507521 | 1317923096150507521 |
| Looking to Andrew Johnson and Richard Nixon for clues on | 2020-10-18 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1317851424504492032 | 1317851424504492032 |
| Weaponizing free speech against democracy! | 2020-10-17 | 60 | 16 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1317463509462994945 | 1317463509462994945 |
| Supreme Court gets another chance to boost Republicans. | 2020-10-16 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1317230024836042752 | 1317230024836042752 |
| Systematic disenfranchisement of seniors. | 2020-10-15 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1316555062697631744 | 1316555062697631744 |
| Supreme Court does its duty to Trump by shutting down | 2020-10-14 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1316501222501670913 | 1316501222501670913 |
| Why don't young people vote? They need to get in | 2020-10-12 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1315695393372397569 | 1315695393372397569 |
| Democracy isn't the objective? | 2020-10-08 | 38 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1314301347865346048 | 1314301347865346048 |
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========== If more people vote, that changes the result! https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/rand-paul-voter-georgia-runoff That's why we have elections, to change the result as needed. But under minority rule, voting rights started with white male landowners and only expanded slowly. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 50 time 2020-12-28 21:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1343664396749295617 ========== Is anything holding our country together right now - except habit? https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-donald-trump-race-and-ethnicity-michigan-north-carolina-c331eaa4bfb954d5584d8c712eb0a7e8 Regional federalism? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 49 time 2020-12-28 06:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1343440794980499456 ========== Trump empowers states by disempowering the Federal government. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/politics/power-to-states-and-governors-during-coronavirus/ Regional federalism began to evolve spontaneously during covid and should evolve further. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 42 time 2020-12-28 04:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1343406457522249728 ========== Democracies can't handle unexpected crises. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/politics/america-was-unprepared-for-a-major-crisis-again/ Funding is available for widely-known threats, not for those that haven't materialized yet. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#exponentials Then there are exponentials. #PS1democracy ===== impress 44 time 2020-12-28 03:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1343399898494865408 ========== Is the alternate-reality chasm unbridgeable? https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/politics/elections-reckoning/ If so, time for regional federalism to counteract minority rule - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 45 time 2020-12-28 02:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1343389830378528769 ========== The immortal legend of voter fraud! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/us/politics/republicans-voter-fraud.html It will never die because voter suppression is a pillar supporting minority rule. And minority rule is entirely built on lies - targeting gullible voters. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 46 time 2020-12-27 15:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1343218928244297729 ========== A voting suppressor's work is never done! Minority rule is never safe from democracy. https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-voting-rights-elections-82cd5b52e924b818bb8d8db80edba44b They don't even know if suppressing vote by mail will work for them or against them, but they know what Trump thinks. #PS1democracy ===== impress 50 time 2020-12-26 14:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1342838682135396355 ========== Always look on the bright side of life! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/24/despite-everything-we-persisted-2020/ #PS1democracy ===== impress 45 time 2020-12-24 15:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1342137344053239808 ========== Eliminate sore-loser laws and establish ranked-choice-voting https://www.fairvote.org/ranked_choice_voting and there is no need for runoff elections! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/james-clyburn-runoff-elections-voting-rights/2020/12/22/2eb0827e-446c-11eb-b0e4-0f182923a025_story.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 47 time 2020-12-23 15:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1341769404908900352 ========== What is it that Romney doesn't like about minority rule? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/21/romney-isnt-yet-there-he-should-consider-new-party/ Trumpism is the logical evolution of minority rule from Strom Thurmond. You can't maintain minority rule by playing fair or being logical and honest. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 35 time 2020-12-21 15:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1341037545535094784 ========== Necessary post-Trump reforms https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/18/opinion/trump-presidency-reform.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 41 time 2020-12-19 01:03 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1340100528152317953 ========== Can Congress pass a two-day extension? https://apnews.com/article/postal-service-legislation-coronavirus-pandemic-e3ce67ff0dcee061677e81c12718076d The real question, can Congress ever kick its habit of screwing with continuing resolutions and budget ceiling resolutions? https://www.get-to-sixty.net/ #PS1democracy ===== impress 35 time 2020-12-18 23:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1340077727093673986 ========== Recommendations for American democracy. https://www.amacad.org/ourcommonpurpose/report #PS1democracy ===== impress 46 time 2020-12-18 17:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1339990386475823104 ========== Control of the House now tends to better reflect popular vote. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/12/18/how-did-gop-gain-house-while-trump-lost-its-actually-pretty-simple/ #PS1democracy ===== engage 2 engage-rate 5% expands 2 impress 43 time 2020-12-18 17:30 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1339986426063069186 ========== Prescription for a new year - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/17/how-keep-politics-sane-2021/ "Ignore Trump, herald federalism, encourage bipartisan reform and focus on voter outreach" https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 53 time 2020-12-17 20:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1339666389682909184 ========== Who deserves a Medal of Freedom? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/17/give-them-medal/ #PS1democracy ===== impress 37 time 2020-12-17 18:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1339644470279557120 ========== Want to improve democracy and get a year-end tax deduction? American Promise Education Fund - campaign finance https://americanpromise.net/ FairVote - election reform https://www.fairvote.org/ ITEP - tax fairness https://itep.org/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1315893212088528 #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 39 time 2020-12-17 05:00 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1339435222744481792 ========== "Ideals tell us what we like to be. Compromises tell us who we are." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/opinion/merkel-orban-morawiecki.html A compromise is hard to evaluate - it needs the judgment of history. What about Henry Clay who preserved the union by preserving slavery? https://www.history.com/topics/us-politics/henry-clay #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 43 time 2020-12-16 23:36 +0000 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1339353666684215296 ========== Did America triumph over sedition? Or barely survive, mortally wounded? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/15/opinion/trump-democracy-america.html Want to do something about it? https://electionreformers.org/ #PS1democracy ===== impress 35 time 2020-12-16 23:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1339346317097672704 ========== Ideas for restoring Congress. https://modernizecongress.house.gov/recommendations https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/congress-needs-to-curb-presidential-power-heres-how-it-can-start-to/2020/12/15/ffde4c32-3f12-11eb-9453-fc36ba051781_story.html Oddly enough, they include restoring pork-barrel earmarks to increase commitment and bargaining power to all members. Here are more - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-congress.html #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 34 time 2020-12-16 19:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1339294476267712514 ========== What's worse than unlimited dark money? Unlimited FOREIGN dark money! https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/12/15/opinion-stop-political-spending-by-foreign-influenced-u-s-firms/ Time to stop it all. Restrict political donations to individual registered US voters! https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#corporate%20donations #PS1democracy ===== impress 30 time 2020-12-16 14:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1339211087179182081 ========== How to overcome divisiveness in one kind of district - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-there-any-hope-for-our-divided-nation-antonio-delgado-has-some-ideas/2020/12/13/d4290d70-3ba2-11eb-9276-ae0ca72729be_story.html Of course, if your district is not that kind, it won't work. #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 37 time 2020-12-14 03:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1338329506277249024 ========== The downhill slide to dictatorship. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/trump-democratic-legitimacy-election/2020/12/11/1adfe688-3b14-11eb-9276-ae0ca72729be_story.html The founders knew that the ascent toward representative democracy is a hard steep uphill. Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 46 time 2020-12-13 23:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1338258404423262209 ========== It's about time, but more needs to be done. https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/12/11/anonymous-shell-company-us-ban/ And it should have passed separately, not tacked on to the defense appropriation bill. https://www.get-to-sixty.net/ #PS1democracy ===== engage 2 engage-rate 5% expands 2 impress 43 time 2020-12-12 14:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1337759857076682752 ========== Why don't the red states revive their glorious past by restoring the law they really want, limiting voting to white men that own land? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/10/us/mail-voting-absentee.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 48 time 2020-12-10 19:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1337120341085233152 ========== The "failed election" law needs to be updated to deal with current problems that might lead to constitutional crises. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/10/opinion/state-legislatures-electors-results.html There are so many of these time bombs waiting to go off. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-crises.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 48 time 2020-12-10 16:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1337065878370729986 ========== What checked Trump's ambition? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/10/opinion/trump-constitution-norms.html The partisan ambition of Republican senators failed to check Trump, just as Madison feared. Elevating do-nothing to an art form, they embellished it with say-nothing. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-congress.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 43 time 2020-12-10 15:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1337057383911133184 ========== Trump allies in fake non-profit attack democracy in favor of minority rule. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/thomas-more-jenna-ellis/2020/12/07/09057432-362d-11eb-b59c-adb7153d10c2_story.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 42 time 2020-12-07 14:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1335953387297198080 ========== A direct popular vote is not the answer, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/12/06/we-need-national-popular-vote-before-its-too-late/ Imagine the crisis if the popular vote totals differed by a few thousand votes, and some states refused to order recounts. But there are other lower risk ways forward - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-electoral-college.html #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 53 time 2020-12-07 02:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1335772798220816385 ========== How can Trumpists suppress the rising tide of democracy? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/us/politics/2020-election-turnout.html Just think what would happen if everybody voted! #PS1democracy ===== impress 41 time 2020-12-05 14:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1335230468619292674 ========== Diverse ideas how to improve American life - https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/fix-america-economy-climate-health What about ending unlimited dark money in politics? That seems very potent. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#corporate%20donations #PS1democracy ===== impress 40 time 2020-12-05 06:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1335108825758588928 ========== Trump showed needed reforms. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/trump-shows-that-we-need-to-reform-us-democracy/2020/12/03/437b5da2-35ab-11eb-8d38-6aea1adb3839_story.html But minority rule means nothing will happen at the Federal level. States will have to reform themselves, individually or collectively. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 44 time 2020-12-04 15:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1334885187855949826 ========== How much free education do feudal serfs need anyway? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/01/opinion/betsy-devos-education.html Draftees arriving at Camp Shelby MS in 1917, often lacked literacy, but seldom marksmanship. White Southern Baptists needed to read the Bible, but not blacks - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-literacy_laws_in_the_United_States #PS1democracy ===== impress 37 time 2020-12-02 03:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1333983111093186560 ========== Lessons to be learned, work to be done. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/01/opinion/trump-biden-democracy.html Don't expect any help from McConnell or McCarthy - they were put in office to preserve minority rule, not destroy it. #PS1democracy ===== impress 36 time 2020-12-02 03:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1333977768590077953 ========== Republicans don't hide their agenda any more - "Medicare and Medicaid might have been mistakes" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/29/gop-party-that-cannot-change/ Without voter suppression, "Republicans would never win another election" https://www.businessinsider.com/us-republican-president-mail-in-voting-lindsey-graham-warns-2020-11 More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1303303476680835 #PS1democracy ===== engage 2 engage-rate 5% expands 2 impress 42 time 2020-11-30 02:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1333232060308176897 ========== How Koch organizes Latinos for reactionary politicians to support minority rule. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/23/magazine/latino-voters.html #PS1democracy ===== engage 2 engage-rate 5% expands 1 impress 41 time 2020-11-29 22:11 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1333171760468877313 ========== Legislation for sale! https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/referenda-ballot-measures-democrats/2020/11/25/d5984964-2e69-11eb-bae0-50bb17126614_story.html Ballot measures go to the side that spends more. Once a tool for the people to overcome legislatures corrupted by special interests, now a tool for special interests to overcome legislatures. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#initiative #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 40 time 2020-11-29 19:43 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1333134476667281408 ========== How the primary system, sore-loser laws, and lack of ranked-choice voting pushes American politics to ideological extremes. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/republican-women-conservative-primary-candidates/2020/11/25/bb803a8c-2eaf-11eb-96c2-aac3f162215d_story.html Surprise! It's worse for women than men. #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 38 time 2020-11-29 19:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1333130223215230976 ========== George Washington saw it all coming. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/27/trumps-farewell-address-his-own-words/ #PS1democracy ===== engage 2 engage-rate 6% impress 34 likes 1 time 2020-11-28 02:50 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1332517199014051841 ========== It's time everybody understood how our democracy works. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-presidency-was-a-crash-course-in-civics-we-can-be-thankful-for-that/2020/11/25/93a92632-2f76-11eb-bae0-50bb17126614_story.html But popular understanding is the last thing that minority rule wants. #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 42 time 2020-11-27 04:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1332185950051471360 ========== How ironic that suppressing minorities is a pillar of minority rule! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/opinion/trump-voter-fraud-birtherism.html https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 44 time 2020-11-26 01:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1331771260536143874 ========== We know a lot of what needs to be done. We just need to do it. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/opinion/election-integrity.html But the defenders of minority rule like elections to be dark and mysterious - so fraud is easier. #PS1democracy ===== impress 46 time 2020-11-26 01:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1331767300567887873 ========== Need a prayer for Thanksgiving? https://www.west-point.org/academy/malo-wa/inspirations/cadetprayer.html Need some saints and sinners to pray for blessings and repentance? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/opinion/trump-election-democracy.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 39 time 2020-11-26 00:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1331764088129503232 ========== Next time could be worse - Trump has made straight in the desert a highway for his bolder and abler successor. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/us/politics/election-trump-democracy.html Biden should appoint a presidential commission to recommend non-partisan means of making the election system more robust. #PS1democracy ===== engage 28 engage-rate 29% expands 27 impress 97 time 2020-11-25 23:54 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1331748039074091010 ========== Will there be enough heroes next time? And why does following the law have to be heroic? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/24/this-unnerving-election-does-not-bode-well-next-one/ The next Trumpist will surely be worse - bolder and more capable. #PS1democracy ===== impress 35 time 2020-11-25 23:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1331737820461887489 ========== Too much money is not the answer. But the question is how much is enough? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/one-of-2020s-biggest-losers-was-the-amount-of-money-wasted-in-the-election/2020/11/23/b0c8a034-2da6-11eb-bae0-50bb17126614_story.html Since there is no penalty for false political advertising, it's best to ignore all of it, no matter how much it cost. #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 58 time 2020-11-24 01:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1331045572912979970 ========== Laying the foundations for future voter suppression in court. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/23/opinion/trump-election-courts.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 48 time 2020-11-23 13:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1330862775657144320 ========== Persons vs inhabitants. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republicans-are-arguing-against-the-framers-original-intent/2020/11/19/0269875e-2aab-11eb-9b14-ad872157ebc9_story.html How about apportioning seats according to the number of persons voting in the last election? THAT number is known exactly and would discourage suppression of registration and voting. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#redistricting #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 31 time 2020-11-20 18:50 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1329859655636434944 ========== No voter fraud but lots of voter suppression. Anybody going to do anything about it? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/11/19/we-need-an-113-commission/ #PS1democracy ===== impress 36 time 2020-11-19 15:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1329448097651503104 ========== What about the Electoral College? Instead of protecting political minorities, winner-take-all is unstable. Popular election of the president could be difficult if a national recount is needed. How can we minimize constitutional crises? https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1295043577506825 #PS1democracy ===== impress 42 time 2020-11-19 05:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1329296505430130689 ========== The polls failed because so many people don't trust the pollsters. And why would people who believe in QAnon, for instance, trust anybody grounded in reality? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-quality-of-polling-is-a-symptom-of-a-democracys-health/2020/11/16/b2c5c714-2832-11eb-92b7-6ef17b3fe3b4_story.html #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 41 time 2020-11-17 22:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1328833107303174144 ========== States rights - the progressive answer to reactionary Federalism? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/16/opinion/progressive-conservative-courts.html Strom Thurmond and George Wallace would turn over in their graves. #PS1democracy ===== engage 24 engage-rate 26% expands 24 impress 94 time 2020-11-16 14:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1328351198722842630 ========== Alito is bothered by executive overreach! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-so-sour-justice-alito-your-side-in-the-supreme-court-is-winning/2020/11/13/19e099bc-25ed-11eb-8672-c281c7a2c96e_story.html But not by judicial activism or by legislative paralysis that causes the activism and overreach. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-congress.html Nor by minority rule. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1democracy ===== engage 2 engage-rate 3% expands 2 impress 61 time 2020-11-16 04:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1328189305718669313 ========== Don't bother Mitch with talk about democracy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republicans-know-dc-deserves-to-be-a-state-but-their-own-power-takes-precedence/2020/11/15/ca38ad86-248f-11eb-a688-5298ad5d580a_story.html He's not allowing statehood for DC and PR to even come to a vote. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#Federal%20territories #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 40 time 2020-11-15 22:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1328096737781633024 ========== One dollar, one vote. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/opinion/prop-22-california-gig-workers.html Initiative was intended to restore power to the people from legislatures corrupted by special interests. Now special interest initiatives take power from the people. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#initiative #PS1democracy ===== impress 44 time 2020-11-14 05:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1327479479518732290 ========== Minority rule is all about stealing election after election - and blaming the other side when caught. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/opinion/trump-election-concede.html https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html https://www.reduce-rural-bias.net/ #PS1democracy ===== impress 36 time 2020-11-11 18:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1326594230970589185 ========== Divided government doesn't facilitate compromise. It facilitates deadlock. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/stop-romanticizing-divided-government-if-mcconnell-is-majority-leader-there-will-be-no-progress/2020/11/09/1d911d22-22c6-11eb-8672-c281c7a2c96e_story.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 44 time 2020-11-10 03:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1326003941335732224 ========== In 1876 and 2000 it depended on the character of one person. Who'd bet on that now? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/03/us/samuel-randall-1876-election.html We need to avoid these crises in the first place rather than hope for the best when they come up. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-crises.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 40 time 2020-11-10 00:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1325954849943379968 ========== Libertarians might well get credit for electing Biden, just as Greens elected Bush and Trump. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/08/opinion/election-2020-libertarians-deficit-hawks.html But the partisan-paralyzed government that thrills Liz Mair is poison for the country. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-congress.html https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#registration #PS1democracy ===== impress 40 time 2020-11-09 23:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1325940460204879873 ========== Time for the ideology of problem solving. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/11/09/congress-mcconnell-pelosi-biden/ https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-congress.html https://www.nolabels.org/ https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#conservative https://www.liberty-and-justice.net/ #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 39 time 2020-11-09 21:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1325918229076692992 ========== "If Republicans don't challenge and change the U.S. election system, there will never be another Republican president elected again" https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/09/lindsey-grahams-curious-conspiratorial-argument-why-trump-should-fight-election-results/ Apparently the rural bias isn't enough - https://www.reduce-rural-bias.net/ Does Graham mean no voting by mail? #PS1democracy ===== engage 2 engage-rate 5% expands 1 impress 37 time 2020-11-09 20:16 +0000 userclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1325894960034377733 ========== The power of One dollar One vote! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/06/opinion/prop-22-california-labor-law.html Initiative/referendum/recall were devised to restore power to the people from legislatures corrupted by special interests. But now these tools serve those special interests. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#initiative #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 62 time 2020-11-07 14:45 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1325086922633482242 ========== What it's actually like to count ballots https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/11/05/vote-count-michigan-no-fraud/ #PS1democracy ===== impress 77 time 2020-11-07 05:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1324950774460284928 ========== We are stuck with the Electoral College - the current ruling party never wants to give up what just worked for it. https://www.nytimes.com/article/popular-vote-electoral-college.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 39 time 2020-11-06 23:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1324862140075765760 ========== Puerto Rican statehood? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/opinion/puerto-rico-state.html Sorry, Mitch says no. https://www.newsweek.com/mcconnell-washington-dc-puerto-rico-statehood-democrats-152887 They'll just have to wait two more years and try again. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#Federal%20territories #PS1democracy ===== impress 50 time 2020-11-05 03:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1324199228126625793 ========== Get rid of direct election of senators? Cruz and Lee favor. https://www.standard.net/news/government/utah-senate-passes-resolution-to-repeal-17th-amendment-in-states-rights-push/article_a7bbcb3f-a903-5327-bcf4-e3e3683b4362.html The 17th Amendment was passed because the state legislature method was so corrupt. That must be the appeal to modern Republicans trying to maintain minority rule. #PS1democracy ===== engage 3 engage-rate 4% expands 1 impress 67 likes 1 time 2020-11-05 03:48 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1324196771229102081 ========== Why does nothing ever change in politics? Isn't Congress supposed to pass laws for the good of the country? Why doesn't it? 4 reasons -- money - primaries - media - performers! Restore Congress by Inhibiting Ideological Extremism! https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-congress.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 48 time 2020-11-03 07:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1323530083462606848 ========== Ranked-choice voting tests Maine. It's safe to vote for a third party candidate for first choice when you can vote for a major candidate for second choice - so your vote is not wasted. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/31/could-maines-ranked-choice-voting-system-cost-sen-susan-collins/ Politicians hate it. https://www.fairvote.org/maine_poll_october2020 #PS1democracy ===== engage 2 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 77 time 2020-11-01 03:35 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1322743944506085376 ========== Some day we'll thank Trump - for motivating so many women to get into politics and change it forever. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/opinion/trump-clinton-women.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 52 time 2020-10-31 22:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1322664889836470272 ========== Who knew! Roger Stone and Q were active in 1860, too! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/opinion/lincoln-trump-1860-2020.html "We seceded to rid ourselves of the rule of the majority" - Jefferson Davis It's the ultimate irony that the mantle of the Dixiecrats is now proudly borne by Trumpists. #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 48 replies 1 time 2020-10-31 22:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1322663092539387904 ========== Give Trump credit for waking us up. Government is important and it doesn't take care of itself. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/opinion/trump-democracy-apathy.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 40 time 2020-10-31 22:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1322659923717574656 ========== Nobody else will come to our rescue! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/30/its-up-people-foil-trumps-plot-against-democracy/ #PS1democracy ===== impress 45 time 2020-10-31 05:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1322405278915063809 ========== What have we lost? 15 points of view. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/30/opinion/trump-america.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 40 time 2020-10-31 01:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1322349349964185601 ========== Whose ballots get rejected? And how many close contests will be decided that way? https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/22/opinion/biden-mail-ballots-rejection.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 41 time 2020-10-31 01:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1322345206830649346 ========== Design and human factors are important! https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/29/opinion/election-voting-mail-ballot-design.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 41 time 2020-10-31 01:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1322344573436243969 ========== Now a country no better than other countries - but perhaps America's greatness can be recovered over time. By starting at home. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/opinion/biden-trump-foreign-policy.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 45 time 2020-10-31 00:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1322330818430210049 ========== Liberal democracy has support in India. Just not from any of Trump's pals. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/30/opinion/india-muslims-liberalism.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 51 time 2020-10-31 00:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1322329667882266624 ========== Why did they even bother trying? Why not just make up the numbers Trump wants? https://apnews.com/article/us-census-lawsuit-pressured-falsify-data-1a899c8af0b2797a7b3456c1354066a2 #PS1democracy ===== impress 48 time 2020-10-30 00:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1321976375163510784 ========== Will in-your-face voter suppression backfire? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/opinion/voter-suppression-election.html Were Republicans a little too hasty after Shelby v Holder? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelby_County_v._Holder #PS1democracy ===== engage 2 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 58 time 2020-10-29 23:48 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1321962169508929541 ========== Not easy to maintain minority rule! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/29/us/elections/trump-pennsylvania-voter-suppression.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 40 time 2020-10-29 16:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1321846005835288576 ========== Slavery - segregation - suppression. It's hard to maintain minority rule, even in a Potemkin democracy, without resorting to every means available. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/28/republicans-only-way-win-is-stop-you-voting/ #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 38 time 2020-10-29 16:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1321844558460669960 ========== Make voting mandatory? Not likely - Republican minority rule is based on having as few people vote as possible. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/28/why-voting-should-be-treated-like-jury-duty/ #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 40 time 2020-10-29 04:57 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1321677457573867520 ========== How far Trump might go is far from the biggest question. It's how far might his more competent, bolder and more ruthless successor might go. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/28/opinion/trump-biden-election-scenarios.html In many ways, the advocates of minority rule are planning their moves for 2024. #PS1democracy ===== impress 45 time 2020-10-29 03:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1321650999191220226 ========== Constitutional amendments for Democrats to consider https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/26/four-big-constitutional-fixes-we-need-thanks-trump/ And some more - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#amendments #PS1democracy ===== impress 32 time 2020-10-26 20:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1320817489748520960 ========== People who don't vote could change the country. But they don't. So nothing changes. As they expected. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/26/us/election-nonvoters.html Casting informed votes is a lot of work, and most people aren't that interested. They get the government they deserve. #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 36 time 2020-10-26 14:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1320737034588147715 ========== People power doesn't work any more. It needs US leadership. But doesn't get it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/protesters-in-belarus-and-thailand-hope-to-see-democratic-change-sadly-they-probably-wont/2020/10/25/51261bf8-1482-11eb-ad6f-36c93e6e94fb_story.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 36 time 2020-10-26 00:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1320528046323986433 ========== End minority rule! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/23/opinion/sunday/disenfranchisement-democracy-minority-rule.html https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html https://www.reduce-rural-bias.net/ #PS1democracy ===== impress 47 time 2020-10-23 22:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1319769344004349952 ========== Democracy is a threat to minority rule. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/23/opinion/lindsey-graham-senate-statehood.html DC and PR statehood means Republicans redefine themselves toward the center - and find new donors. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#Federal%20territories As in 1800-1850, the free/slave balance in the Senate is the key issue. #PS1democracy ===== impress 41 time 2020-10-23 18:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1319704632612904960 ========== Government of the dollars, by the dollars, for the dollars. https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/10/23/49ers-owner-jed-york-pours-millions-into-santa-clara-city-council-race-after-years-of-battling-city-hall/ #PS1democracy ===== impress 44 time 2020-10-23 17:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1319690893809520642 ========== This ship has sailed, but let's do something about campaign finance in 2021. https://americanpromise.net/ https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#corporate%20donations https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/us/politics/joe-biden-donors.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 35 time 2020-10-21 21:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1319030789334396928 ========== Who said this and when? "[my opponent] has achieved a great thing for himself and for his country. I applaud him for it. And my heart is filled with gratitude to the American people for giving me a fair hearing before deciding." https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-will-end-his-presidency-as-he-began-it-whining/2020/10/20/1a4eee30-130a-11eb-ad6f-36c93e6e94fb_story.html #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 38 time 2020-10-21 21:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1319022119573835776 ========== "Biden may believe that there are 4-8 Republicans who might work with him" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/18/ending-filibuster-is-about-be-more-important-than-ever/ A Democratic majority means those 4-8 are gone. Leftover Republicans know the 2009 playbook - just say NO. The filibuster has to go. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#filibuster #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 41 time 2020-10-19 02:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1318021337655308288 ========== 78 is too old for president. 87 is too old for senator. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/10/18/feinstein-markey-barrett-graham/ #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 38 time 2020-10-18 22:06 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1317950287340920832 ========== NOW will (the surviving) Republicans get interested in limiting dark money? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/18/democrats-stunning-fundraising/ https://americanpromise.net/ #PS1democracy ===== impress 31 time 2020-10-18 20:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1317923096150507521 ========== Looking to Andrew Johnson and Richard Nixon for clues on how to recover from Trumpism. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/10/16/prosecute-trump-accountability-presidency/ #PS1democracy ===== impress 29 time 2020-10-18 15:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1317851424504492032 ========== Weaponizing free speech against democracy! https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/magazine/free-speech.html There's big money in flooding the zone! #PS1democracy ===== engage 16 engage-rate 27% expands 16 impress 60 time 2020-10-17 13:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1317463509462994945 ========== Supreme Court gets another chance to boost Republicans. Will they take it? https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-census-undocumented-immigrants/2020/10/16/cf8288be-0f51-11eb-8074-0e943a91bf08_story.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 33 time 2020-10-16 22:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1317230024836042752 ========== Systematic disenfranchisement of seniors. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/10/14/nursing-homes-voting-covid-discrimination/ #PS1democracy ===== impress 47 time 2020-10-15 01:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1316555062697631744 ========== Supreme Court does its duty to Trump by shutting down census before it can count too many Democrats. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/13/us/supreme-court-census.html Allocate Congressional seats instead by voter turnout. That would discourage states from suppressing voting. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#redistricting #PS1democracy ===== impress 41 time 2020-10-14 22:08 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1316501222501670913 ========== Why don't young people vote? They need to get in the habit. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/08/upshot/youth-voting-2020-election.html #PS1democracy ===== impress 46 time 2020-10-12 16:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1315695393372397569 ========== Democracy isn't the objective? https://twitter.com/SenMikeLee/status/1314089207875371008 Nobody is for national direct democracy. It's representative democracy that's at stake - vs Potemkin democracy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/08/not-all-pences-harriss-debate-dodges-are-created-equal/ #PS1democracy ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% expands 1 impress 38 time 2020-10-08 20:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1314301347865346048