| Title | Date | Im- press | En- gage | Ex- pand | URL- clicks | Like | Re- tweet | Link to Text | Link to Tweet |
| Change tried to come to Enid. The status quo fought | 2021-12-26 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1475188216277848066 | 1475188216277848066 |
| GOP plan for America - Chinese "democracy" where all | 2021-12-17 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1471684575629758468 | 1471684575629758468 |
| Roots of minority rule. | 2021-12-15 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1471239352856416256 | 1471239352856416256 |
| The 1619 project at the New York Times - | 2021-12-15 | 50 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1471217371515813894 | 1471217371515813894 |
| "The pro-life goal isn’t an end to abortion. It’s to | 2021-12-15 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1470997405768163328 | 1470997405768163328 |
| What's so hard to understand about pro-guns and | 2021-12-02 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1466466985999544327 | 1466466985999544327 |
| 1619 was indeed a pivotal year in Virginia - and could | 2021-11-27 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1464604161304006658 | 1464604161304006658 |
| Eternal vigilance is the price of minority rule! | 2021-11-25 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1463711876689195011 | 1463711876689195011 |
| An essential pillar of minority rule - diverting the masses | 2021-11-21 | 26 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1462531535362424835 | 1462531535362424835 |
| The goal of preserving minority rule gets a new jolt | 2021-11-19 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461844529850425344 | 1461844529850425344 |
| "The real turning point was the election of Barack Obama | 2021-11-19 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1461832894595276805 | 1461832894595276805 |
| How Democrats might take the offensive in culture wars. | 2021-11-11 | 73 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458834846772387841 | 1458834846772387841 |
| "Right-wing Leninism" - active defense of minority rule. | 2021-11-10 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458474932560535557 | 1458474932560535557 |
| If rural America wants to defend minority rule by embracing | 2021-11-10 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1458255553814155267 | 1458255553814155267 |
| Remember when people thought that the corner was turned | 2021-11-05 | 122 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1456601150887661571 | 1456601150887661571 |
| Democrats' path forward must include confornting race as | 2021-11-05 | 117 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1456443169025839106 | 1456443169025839106 |
| Read some history of state-encouraged private oppression | 2021-11-03 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1455785523864223745 | 1455785523864223745 |
| Fahrenheit 451 is what happens when politicians decide | 2021-11-02 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1455366116524511236 | 1455366116524511236 |
| Some history of state-encouraged private oppression of | 2021-11-02 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1455340615424638976 | 1455340615424638976 |
| It's all grist for the milling into culture war | 2021-10-27 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1453506911249186822 | 1453506911249186822 |
| How the ruling class strikes back at dissent | 2021-10-26 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452825519523647489 | 1452825519523647489 |
| How the hereditary nobility intends to suppress democracy | 2021-10-26 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1452824018214481922 | 1452824018214481922 |
| "all the pandering and outrage was its own reward" | 2021-10-18 | 105 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1450217981405896705 | 1450217981405896705 |
| More culture warriors to defend minority rule! | 2021-10-15 | 89 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1449132807465299971 | 1449132807465299971 |
| You can't blame the lunatic fringe for being the lunatic | 2021-10-10 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447301077913665536 | 1447301077913665536 |
| Reactionaries training to take over school boards to | 2021-10-10 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1447078116837376002 | 1447078116837376002 |
| "Stop the Steal" is not just about Trump, except in his | 2021-10-06 | 210 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1445854447893057542 | 1445854447893057542 |
| Desperately seeking death panels! | 2021-10-04 | 120 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1445121169003204622 | 1445121169003204622 |
| Minority rule worked fine in feudal times with the masses | 2021-10-03 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1444464547583062019 | 1444464547583062019 |
| Minority rule in action. | 2021-10-02 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1444328145843220488 | 1444328145843220488 |
| Family values - another culture war tactic, used to keep | 2021-09-27 | 390 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1442629478941818884 | 1442629478941818884 |
| Regional federalism? | 2021-09-25 | 415 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1441741184582311942 | 1441741184582311942 |
| America's not polarized? Michael Hiltzik claims that | 2021-09-24 | 153 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1441545938753908739 | 1441545938753908739 |
| America's founders counted on "republican virtue" - | 2021-09-24 | 129 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1441265684709711882 | 1441265684709711882 |
| Don't expect GOP to dislodge any of its pillars of | 2021-09-23 | 93 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1441061829602516999 | 1441061829602516999 |
| What happens when conservative voters discover that | 2021-09-20 | 58 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1439989321025482756 | 1439989321025482756 |
| What do you know about the Redeemers? | 2021-09-18 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1439064393145196545 | 1439064393145196545 |
| There is a Great Replacement going on! | 2021-09-17 | 73 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1438915742804496390 | 1438915742804496390 |
| How minority rule works - | 2021-09-16 | 29 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1438339724498784257 | 1438339724498784257 |
| Who cares if it's true? You can't defend minority rule | 2021-09-15 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1438147952745213954 | 1438147952745213954 |
| Unfounded optimism? | 2021-09-09 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1435755288221474816 | 1435755288221474816 |
| Osama bin Laden's great 9/11 victory! | 2021-09-08 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1435753089097605121 | 1435753089097605121 |
| Texas GOP vows to defend minority rule | 2021-09-08 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1435484347499380747 | 1435484347499380747 |
| Think you're safer from the crazies because you don't live | 2021-09-06 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1435018262773784578 | 1435018262773784578 |
| Vigilantes - a means to support minority rule without | 2021-09-02 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1433277095560421379 | 1433277095560421379 |
| Texas leads the way! | 2021-09-02 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1433258291073667072 | 1433258291073667072 |
| How do the elite beneficiaries of minority rule get | 2021-09-01 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1432948863938142209 | 1432948863938142209 |
| The connection between snake oil and Trumpism. | 2021-08-31 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1432534260716490753 | 1432534260716490753 |
| Changing demographics spell trouble for minority rule. | 2021-08-13 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1426022521753591808 | 1426022521753591808 |
| "Hungary is a place where democracy is window dressing | 2021-08-07 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1423873116481064963 | 1423873116481064963 |
| No bipartisanship on the fundamental pillars of minority | 2021-08-07 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1423869004989353990 | 1423869004989353990 |
| Nobody's trying to find "proof" of anything - it's | 2021-08-05 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1423361384977289216 | 1423361384977289216 |
| Laws don't apply to rich white people - the Trump doctrine. | 2021-08-04 | 36 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1422794694015127557 | 1422794694015127557 |
| "Future generations will marvel at how we permitted elected | 2021-08-03 | 44 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1422555962724999184 | 1422555962724999184 |
| "strange to see Republicans oppose spending money even | 2021-08-02 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1422216436525662213 | 1422216436525662213 |
| Protecting minority rule, just as in 1619 and 1880. | 2021-07-29 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1420797911328165888 | 1420797911328165888 |
| "Campaign funding from the national oligarchs is what sets | 2021-07-19 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1417236051635015681 | 1417236051635015681 |
| Minority rule depends on dividing the masses against | 2021-07-12 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1414608622466703365 | 1414608622466703365 |
| Why were Jefferson's words about slavery removed from the | 2021-07-06 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1412214836054790181 | 1412214836054790181 |
| It's only fair - the Chinese Communists are turning China | 2021-07-05 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1412199311262158857 | 1412199311262158857 |
| Memory laws - Stalin would be so proud of the modern | 2021-06-30 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1410095105478778880 | 1410095105478778880 |
| Making the world safe for ignorance - again. | 2021-06-29 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1409714665890873349 | 1409714665890873349 |
| Of course the modern Dixiecrat-Republican Party is based | 2021-06-29 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1409706113298092034 | 1409706113298092034 |
| Between 1619 and 2021, there's not 402 years worth of | 2021-06-29 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1409693208213221379 | 1409693208213221379 |
| Minority rule is not ancient history, but what's being | 2021-06-28 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1409347626726658050 | 1409347626726658050 |
| Pillars of minority rule - | 2021-06-27 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1409046308774572032 | 1409046308774572032 |
| America is back - back in the race - but falling behind. | 2021-06-26 | 53 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1408780766201274370 | 1408780766201274370 |
| "Come to church, bring money, and we'll take care of it" | 2021-06-20 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1406615394694033419 | 1406615394694033419 |
| "ubiquity of loss" is a powerful theme for preserving | 2021-06-18 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1405719835552620545 | 1405719835552620545 |
| Russians, Republicans - they've finally come to see that | 2021-06-17 | 40 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1405321746467590146 | 1405321746467590146 |
| "a wandering outrage in search of a problem" | 2021-06-14 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1404295865389383680 | 1404295865389383680 |
| What kind of economy does the GOP want? | 2021-06-04 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1400959688225615874 | 1400959688225615874 |
| Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung | 2021-06-03 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1400460493756657671 | 1400460493756657671 |
| "If you can teach people how to study how power worked | 2021-06-03 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1400454805856788481 | 1400454805856788481 |
| The Americanization of French politics. Why not - | 2021-06-03 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1400291734018351108 | 1400291734018351108 |
| How minority rule works in cowboy country. | 2021-06-01 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1399594708553244674 | 1399594708553244674 |
| Racial hatred is a pillar of minority rule. | 2021-06-01 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1399587778443104256 | 1399587778443104256 |
| GOP uses "critical race theory" for any attempt to talk | 2021-05-31 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1399179085050302465 | 1399179085050302465 |
| Unclear on the concept! | 2021-05-31 | 35 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1399156209140133888 | 1399156209140133888 |
| Strom Thurmond, founder of the modern Dixiecrat-Republican | 2021-05-28 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1398068894749716482 | 1398068894749716482 |
| Crises used to unite Americans - then the ruling class | 2021-05-27 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1398005995708633090 | 1398005995708633090 |
| Of course racial antipathy is on the rise - dividing the | 2021-05-26 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1397596604220076032 | 1397596604220076032 |
| How did rich Southern slaveowners convince poor whites to | 2021-05-21 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1395607950194999300 | 1395607950194999300 |
| "The radicalization of the Republican Party has outpaced | 2021-05-20 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1395485719360000000 | 1395485719360000000 |
| Ignorance is indeed a pillar of minority rule. | 2021-05-17 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1394285051764903936 | 1394285051764903936 |
| Teach civics to students? Primary sources and assessing | 2021-05-16 | 42 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1393932690848579585 | 1393932690848579585 |
| It's not Democrats vs GOP any more - it's facts vs fantasy. | 2021-05-16 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1393932339898503174 | 1393932339898503174 |
| Everybody should welcome Cheney aligning with fact over | 2021-05-14 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1393200029989408774 | 1393200029989408774 |
| Demographics implied this would happen. Trump | 2021-05-11 | 55 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1392237196158009344 | 1392237196158009344 |
| Arizona auditors defer knocking on doors, until they think | 2021-05-11 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1391930967158247427 | 1391930967158247427 |
| "So long as the voters do not catch on" | 2021-04-29 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1387882402513448969 | 1387882402513448969 |
| Bernie Madoff, Mr Richfield, affinity fraud, and | 2021-04-27 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1386894624707387392 | 1386894624707387392 |
| 60 years ago, writing about 90 years earlier - Southern | 2021-04-26 | 83 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1386814314724478976 | 1386814314724478976 |
| GOP will keep recounting until it gets the result it wants! | 2021-04-25 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1386451958484160513 | 1386451958484160513 |
| The Dinosaurs TV series explains minority rule. | 2021-04-25 | 60 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1386446083765673984 | 1386446083765673984 |
| The ruling class, through its media, has convinced large | 2021-04-23 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1385401348603056131 | 1385401348603056131 |
| Slavery, Segregation, Suppression of voters - it's one | 2021-04-10 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1380746601195429889 | 1380746601195429889 |
| The slave power of the Southern aristocracy has been | 2021-04-10 | 65 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1380740520930988038 | 1380740520930988038 |
| Nullification! | 2021-04-10 | 65 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1380687639620116481 | 1380687639620116481 |
| The essential quandary of minority rule. | 2021-04-09 | 63 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1380534807185137666 | 1380534807185137666 |
| Dig it up or make it up! | 2021-04-04 | 55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1378779125150670848 | 1378779125150670848 |
| Don't take down all the Confederate statues. | 2021-04-04 | 53 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1378763164163080193 | 1378763164163080193 |
| How the Republican billionaires consolidated their control | 2021-04-03 | 58 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1378159383457136640 | 1378159383457136640 |
| Boldly looking away from the New South back to the Old | 2021-04-01 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1377634716161994760 | 1377634716161994760 |
| A perfect minority rule wedge. GOP hopes virus | 2021-03-29 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1376674477795254278 | 1376674477795254278 |
| "a false and misplaced perception of victimization" | 2021-03-29 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1376628813480620034 | 1376628813480620034 |
| How minority rule works - divide the masses against | 2021-03-29 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1376625283034279937 | 1376625283034279937 |
| Amazing the argument Republicans make, then agree that | 2021-03-23 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1374504654201966598 | 1374504654201966598 |
| Ruling class declares war on the masses! | 2021-03-20 | 61 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1373079217194242053 | 1373079217194242053 |
| "It strains credulity to assume that racism is accidental | 2021-03-19 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1372938880966561794 | 1372938880966561794 |
| Time for politician suppression! | 2021-03-19 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1372907452128133120 | 1372907452128133120 |
| "politics of lies and bigotry that has become the GOP¢s | 2021-03-18 | 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1372582564553060362 | 1372582564553060362 |
| A perfect single-issue GOP voter - all she cares about is | 2021-03-14 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1370911504409628673 | 1370911504409628673 |
| It's all about reinforcing minority rule - by voter | 2021-03-12 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1370437005033705473 | 1370437005033705473 |
| Judicial overreach or legislative overreach? | 2021-03-10 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1369464307621060610 | 1369464307621060610 |
| "no other way you can describe this other than racism" | 2021-03-07 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1368691208873156608 | 1368691208873156608 |
| The essence of the new deal has always been to DO things | 2021-03-07 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1368639490521112582 | 1368639490521112582 |
| The #1 GOP objective is protecting minority rule - to | 2021-03-07 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1368637889689444353 | 1368637889689444353 |
| "democracy is working against Republicans — and so | 2021-03-06 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1368018501865066499 | 1368018501865066499 |
| Minority rule never changes - ruling classes dividing | 2021-03-05 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1367865552211865602 | 1367865552211865602 |
| SAY one thing and DO the opposite! | 2021-03-05 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1367861293261131779 | 1367861293261131779 |
| "how long will it take the Republicans to figure out that | 2021-03-05 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1367646710885879808 | 1367646710885879808 |
| "if the rules are fair, they will lose" | 2021-03-05 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1367635195306774528 | 1367635195306774528 |
| If you can't think of something meaningful, think about | 2021-03-04 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1367491355765854208 | 1367491355765854208 |
| Every Republican senator would vote for the Biden | 2021-03-04 | 62 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1367276006357172224 | 1367276006357172224 |
| How single-issue politics works. | 2021-03-03 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1367261714794704898 | 1367261714794704898 |
| How's the Supreme Court going to rule on voting rights? | 2021-03-03 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1367006862126637059 | 1367006862126637059 |
| CPAC proved it - Democrats must maximize democracy while | 2021-03-01 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1366423638879080448 | 1366423638879080448 |
| Republicans don't even bother making policy arguments | 2021-02-26 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1365370735561109505 | 1365370735561109505 |
| A founder of the modern GOP. | 2021-02-26 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1365321965540532228 | 1365321965540532228 |
| No politicians on the Jan 6 Commission! | 2021-02-26 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1365320268072148992 | 1365320268072148992 |
| What will young attendees learn from CPAC? Absolutely | 2021-02-26 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1365318124644356096 | 1365318124644356096 |
| Indians in power are as great a threat to the land of | 2021-02-26 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1365099973407174656 | 1365099973407174656 |
| It was briefly legal to teach black children to read | 2021-02-25 | 64 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1364994108398309379 | 1364994108398309379 |
| Johnson, Carlson, Scalise, Schlapp - all trying to rewrite | 2021-02-24 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1364364966615162882 | 1364364966615162882 |
| Their forefathers suppressed the black vote 150 years | 2021-02-23 | 44 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1364353408484876288 | 1364353408484876288 |
| Ted Cruz - a force for national unity! | 2021-02-19 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1362794067839520770 | 1362794067839520770 |
| The power of single-issue constituencies. | 2021-02-18 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1362481936850063360 | 1362481936850063360 |
| "Don't ever put people who don't believe in government in | 2021-02-18 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1362473650746626049 | 1362473650746626049 |
| Speaking for the ruling class, one Texas politician has | 2021-02-18 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1362248381171519489 | 1362248381171519489 |
| As always, GOP VOTERS favor Democratic economics, as long | 2021-02-18 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1362212097493409794 | 1362212097493409794 |
| Permanent legislative standoff and impeachments and | 2021-02-16 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1361686391604740101 | 1361686391604740101 |
| A lesson from Charlie Wilson's War - | 2021-02-15 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1361448004461334535 | 1361448004461334535 |
| While the Democrats have a majority, slender as it is, | 2021-02-13 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1360739281669558276 | 1360739281669558276 |
| Racism has been setting back poor and middle class white | 2021-02-13 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1360643318116356108 | 1360643318116356108 |
| Filibuster is a vital tool for minority rule. | 2021-02-12 | 42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1360294861505654787 | 1360294861505654787 |
| The essence of minority rule is to keep the voters worked | 2021-02-06 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1358128156243234818 | 1358128156243234818 |
| The fruits of minority rule - the rich get richer, | 2021-01-31 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1355975874986659842 | 1355975874986659842 |
| Eric Cantor thinks politicians should tell voters the | 2021-01-31 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1355974026649198592 | 1355974026649198592 |
| The three S's | 2021-01-31 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1355958771260874753 | 1355958771260874753 |
| It's time to do something about minority rule. | 2021-01-28 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1354933624391438349 | 1354933624391438349 |
| The filibuster reinforces minority rule - GOP senators | 2021-01-24 | 57 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1353363108534751232 | 1353363108534751232 |
| "Why do these rich and well-connected people get this | 2021-01-23 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1352794370878054400 | 1352794370878054400 |
| Trump was almost the apotheosis of minority rule - | 2021-01-23 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1352771337303908352 | 1352771337303908352 |
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========== Change tried to come to Enid. The status quo fought back. The people were right that they were being exploited by the ruling class. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#political%20ideology%20for%20the%20masses But they were wrong about who the ruling class was. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/26/us/oklahoma-masks.html #PS1minority ===== impress 34 time 2021-12-26 19:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1475188216277848066 ========== GOP plan for America - Chinese "democracy" where all elections are in favor of The Party. https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/january-6-hearings-mark-meadows-trump-fox-china-biden-democracy-20211214.html That's how the Chinese Communist Party protects minority rule, and it can work here too. #PS1minority ===== impress 17 time 2021-12-17 03:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1471684575629758468 ========== Roots of minority rule. https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/four-folkways/ America's history has been largely dominated by men of British descent. Four distinct cultural groups dominated early American life. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1560542894290224 #PS1minority ===== impress 35 time 2021-12-15 22:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1471239352856416256 ========== The 1619 project at the New York Times - https://nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.htm should have been old news! In 1965, Louis Lomax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Lomax presented a memorable speech which seems just as timely today - https://political-scrapbook.net/1619/lomax.html More at https://facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1560506264293887 #PS1minority ===== engage 4 engage-rate 8% expands 3 impress 50 time 2021-12-15 20:35 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1471217371515813894 ========== "The pro-life goal isn’t an end to abortion. It’s to establish another means of controlling women." Poor women that is - rich ones can always travel to get the medical care they want. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/14/opinion/abortion-contraception-pregnancy.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1560098354334678 #PS1minority ===== impress 31 time 2021-12-15 06:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1470997405768163328 ========== What's so hard to understand about pro-guns and anti-abortion? Both are single-issue constituencies that will reliably vote GOP, disregarding all other issues, if they get their way on their single issue. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/01/supreme-courts-pro-gun-pro-life-problem/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1551709968506850 #PS1minority ===== impress 13 time 2021-12-02 17:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1466466985999544327 ========== 1619 was indeed a pivotal year in Virginia - and could be considered the starting point of southern American culture and politics, though not of northern American culture and politics. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/11/19/1619-project-book-history/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1548387712172409 #PS1minority ===== impress 25 time 2021-11-27 14:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1464604161304006658 ========== Eternal vigilance is the price of minority rule! https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/editorial-cartoons/jack-ohman/article256046982.html #PS1minority ===== impress 19 time 2021-11-25 03:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1463711876689195011 ========== An essential pillar of minority rule - diverting the masses with unimportant issues so they don't pay attention to what's important. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html Calling names while the school burns down - https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article255937242.html with too much media enabling. #PS1minority ===== engage 2 engage-rate 8% expands 1 impress 26 time 2021-11-21 21:21 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1462531535362424835 ========== The goal of preserving minority rule gets a new jolt of energy from young people. Not even close to a majority, but violent enough to cause trouble. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/scary-future-american-right-national-conservatism-conference/620746/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1543229876021526 #PS1minority ===== impress 20 time 2021-11-19 23:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461844529850425344 ========== "The real turning point was the election of Barack Obama in 2008" Nixon's Southern Strategy in action - if you can't win elections, you have to quit having elections that you could lose. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/19/roots-of-republican-war-on-democracy/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1543208069357040 #PS1minority ===== impress 16 time 2021-11-19 23:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1461832894595276805 ========== How Democrats might take the offensive in culture wars. https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/democrats-losing-culture-war-education-20211107.html It's all about the GOP's real agenda of defending minority rule. But it's a complicated argument while GOP lies are simple to understand for any voter. #PS1minority ===== impress 73 time 2021-11-11 16:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458834846772387841 ========== "Right-wing Leninism" - active defense of minority rule. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/10/opinion/republicans-democrats-crt.html But you'll never win or level the playing field by playing by their rules or using their methods - the great insight of moral leaders from Jesus to Gandhi to Martin Luther King Jr. #PS1minority ===== impress 20 time 2021-11-10 16:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458474932560535557 ========== If rural America wants to defend minority rule by embracing fantasy culture wars - they are indeed lost to the factual Democratic Party. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/06/us/rural-vote-democrats-virginia.html #PS1minority ===== impress 17 time 2021-11-10 02:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1458255553814155267 ========== Remember when people thought that the corner was turned on racism when Obama was elected? https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-elections-education-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-fc8501fa2b0ef655933f4cce27bf4c9a Instead we got the Tea Party. Racism is too potent a tool for the modern Trumpist Dixiecrat GOP to abstain from using it to protect minority rule. #PS1minority ===== impress 122 time 2021-11-05 12:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456601150887661571 ========== Democrats' path forward must include confornting race as an issue that the ruling class uses to divide the masses. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html GOP has been doing that since Nixon completed the conversion of Lincoln GOP into Dixiecrat GOP. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/opinion/democrats-republicans-virginia-race.html #PS1minority ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 117 time 2021-11-05 02:08 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1456443169025839106 ========== Read some history of state-encouraged private oppression of minorities - every minority except the ruling class of oppressors. https://washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/11/01/texas-abortion-law-history-rights-suppressed/ Greg Abbott proudly follows the historic river of Texas suppression. #PS1minority ===== impress 27 time 2021-11-03 06:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1455785523864223745 ========== Fahrenheit 451 is what happens when politicians decide they are literary critics, at least when they are on Fox. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/01/why-books-have-become-battlefield-texas/ #PS1minority ===== impress 27 time 2021-11-02 02:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1455366116524511236 ========== Some history of state-encouraged private oppression of minorities. Every minority except the ruling class of oppressors. https://washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/11/01/texas-abortion-law-history-rights-suppressed/ Greg Abbott proudly follow the historic river of Texas suppression. #PS1minority ===== impress 3 time 2021-11-02 01:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1455340615424638976 ========== It's all grist for the milling into culture war distractions to keep GOP voters from thinking about the real GOP platform - preserving minority rule of GOP major donors. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/27/safe-spaces-trigger-warnings/ #PS1minority ===== impress 29 time 2021-10-27 23:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1453506911249186822 ========== How the ruling class strikes back at dissent https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/25/us/vaccine-fired-church.html His employer knew where the money came from. #PS1minority ===== impress 55 time 2021-10-26 02:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452825519523647489 ========== How the hereditary nobility intends to suppress democracy once and for all - https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2021/10/25/god-trump-closed-door-world-council-national-policy/ It's not really about conservatism, or religion, or the ideals of America's founders, but about preserving power by all means. And their donors approve. #PS1minority ===== impress 53 time 2021-10-26 02:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1452824018214481922 ========== "all the pandering and outrage was its own reward" That's how minority rule works. Get the voters with culture wars and then focus on what the donors want - tax cuts and deregulation. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/18/youngkin-critical-race-theory-phony/ #PS1minority ===== engage 1 engage-rate 1% impress 105 likes 1 time 2021-10-18 21:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1450217981405896705 ========== More culture warriors to defend minority rule! https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/moms-for-liberty-parents-rights/2021/10/14/bf3d9ccc-286a-11ec-8831-a31e7b3de188_story.html #PS1minority ===== impress 89 time 2021-10-15 21:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1449132807465299971 ========== You can't blame the lunatic fringe for being the lunatic fringe. https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article254836147.html But you can blame people who know better but encourage and defend the lunatic fringe in order to protect minority rule. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1515545998789914 #PS1minority ===== impress 16 time 2021-10-10 20:40 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447301077913665536 ========== Reactionaries training to take over school boards to protect minority rule, though they probably don't all understand the big picture. Culture wars are an essential diversionary tactic of minority rule. https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-ohio-school-boards-racial-injustice-election-2020-a27a6ea4b7d4acc07173ebf7fa494257 #PS1minority ===== impress 13 time 2021-10-10 05:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1447078116837376002 ========== "Stop the Steal" is not just about Trump, except in his own mind. It's the foundation of the GOP's strategy to maintain minority rule going forward, regardless of who their candidates might be. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/06/trump-2024-republican-governors/ #PS1minority ===== engage 3 engage-rate 1% impress 210 time 2021-10-06 20:52 +0000 urlclicks 3 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445854447893057542 ========== Desperately seeking death panels! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/04/welcome-death-panels-build-back-better-edition/ Don't worry. If the GOP can't dig it up, they can make it up. Then use all that dark campaign money to repeat it over and over. That's how minority rule protects itself from democracy. #PS1minority ===== engage 2 engage-rate 2% impress 120 time 2021-10-04 20:18 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1445121169003204622 ========== Minority rule worked fine in feudal times with the masses knowing only what they heard in church. The antebellum rural South was not much different, or even in 1965. Reactionaries would be happy to return to those simpler times. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/09/29/school-board-meetings-used-be-boring-why-have-they-become-war-zones/ #PS1minority ===== impress 55 time 2021-10-03 00:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444464547583062019 ========== Minority rule in action. https://apnews.com/article/iowa-philanthropy-evan-feinberg-f2680a1c7c1f84c8f69d63eaa631908a The SAY they oppose school censorship, but they FUND the groups leading the charge, because those groups also support minority rule tax cuts, deregulation, and reactionary judiciary. #PS1minority ===== impress 46 time 2021-10-02 15:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1444328145843220488 ========== Family values - another culture war tactic, used to keep voters from looking at the men behind the curtain. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/26/opinion/child-tax-credit-family-values.html #PS1minority ===== impress 390 time 2021-09-27 23:17 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1442629478941818884 ========== Regional federalism? https://political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html Or secession? https://mercurynews.com/2021/08/06/opinion-imagining-a-realistic-calexit-scenario/ How long will the coastal majority pay to be abused by a rural minority? #PS1minority ===== engage 1 engage-rate 0% impress 415 time 2021-09-25 12:27 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1441741184582311942 ========== America's not polarized? Michael Hiltzik claims that there is no polarization in America, pointing to large national majorities for many Democratic priorities. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-09-22/america-not-facing-a-civil-war-just-a-loudmouthed-extremism But America rules by minority, not majority. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1504782886532892 #PS1minority ===== impress 153 time 2021-09-24 23:31 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1441545938753908739 ========== America's founders counted on "republican virtue" - devotion to principle above personal or partisan advantage - to limit demagoguery. But now there is no "republican virtue" left - only Trumpism. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/23/robert-kagan-constitutional-crisis/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1504208579923656 #PS1minority ===== impress 129 time 2021-09-24 04:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1441265684709711882 ========== Don't expect GOP to dislodge any of its pillars of minority rule. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/22/new-gop-philosophy-an-ounce-cure-is-worth-pound-prevention/ Single-issue voters and donors - guns, abortion, anti-vax, anti-max, oil and gas deregulators - all provide the reliable votes to keep the GOP ruling donor class in power. #PS1minority ===== impress 93 time 2021-09-23 15:28 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1441061829602516999 ========== What happens when conservative voters discover that "conservative leaders" don't have any real principles except gaining and keeping power? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/20/jennifer-rubin-republican-trump-resistance/ Every conservative voter who doesn't support minority rule needs to wake up. #PS1minority ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 58 likes 1 time 2021-09-20 16:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1439989321025482756 ========== What do you know about the Redeemers? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redeemers Fortunately, you don't need to study history, because they are still with us - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/17/insurrectionists-their-defenders-are-an-old-american-story/ #PS1minority ===== impress 41 time 2021-09-18 03:11 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1439064393145196545 ========== There is a Great Replacement going on! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/17/dan-patrick-great-replacement-theory/ It's the Great Replacement of representative democracy with unapologetic upfront feudal minority rule - by the rich and powerful, for the rich and powerful. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1499772860367228 #PS1minority ===== impress 73 time 2021-09-17 17:20 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1438915742804496390 ========== How minority rule works - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-09-15/peter-thiel-gamed-silicon-valley-tech-trump-taxes-and-politics It's all about getting the money and keeping the money, except for investments in helpful politicians. #PS1minority ===== engage 3 engage-rate 10% expands 2 impress 29 time 2021-09-16 03:11 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1438339724498784257 ========== Who cares if it's true? You can't defend minority rule by telling the truth. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/14/risch-blinken-hearing-questions-republican-lie/ #PS1minority ===== impress 46 time 2021-09-15 14:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1438147952745213954 ========== Unfounded optimism? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/08/right-has-lost-debate-over-confederacy/ Some of the statues are coming down. But the forces that put them up in the first place are stronger than ever. Minority rule demands a mythology to mobilize the masses against themselves. #PS1minority ===== impress 33 time 2021-09-09 00:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1435755288221474816 ========== Osama bin Laden's great 9/11 victory! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2021/911-conspiracy-theories/ He stressed vulnerable Americans so much that the country is now divided into parties based on fact vs fantasy. This is exactly the future bin Laden wanted to create. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1493794954298352 #PS1minority ===== impress 31 time 2021-09-08 23:53 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1435753089097605121 ========== Texas GOP vows to defend minority rule https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html by declaring war on democracy! https://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-health-texas-coronavirus-pandemic-race-and-ethnicity-5172cd92d50e2ed37c9acf9016ebe640 And of course, Greg Abbott dreams of taking it nationally! #PS1minority ===== impress 25 time 2021-09-08 06:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1435484347499380747 ========== Think you're safer from the crazies because you don't live in the South? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/06/opinion/south-republicans-vaccines-climate-change.html Don't count on it. The crazies are everywhere, determined to uphold minority rule by any means possible. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/06/opinion/coronavirus-masks-school-board-meetings.html #PS1minority ===== impress 46 time 2021-09-06 23:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1435018262773784578 ========== Vigilantes - a means to support minority rule without legal risk to the major minority rule donors. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/opinion/texas-abortion.html #PS1minority ===== impress 43 time 2021-09-02 03:54 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1433277095560421379 ========== Texas leads the way! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/01/texas-shows-us-what-post-democracy-america-would-look-like/ The way back to 1619. #PS1minority ===== impress 50 time 2021-09-02 02:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1433258291073667072 ========== How do the elite beneficiaries of minority rule get ordinary people to vote on their behalf? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html Astroturf! https://apnews.com/article/business-health-coronavirus-pandemic-3157002e9d011e5283f55886b1c7078a More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1488452658165915 #PS1minority ===== impress 24 time 2021-09-01 06:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1432948863938142209 ========== The connection between snake oil and Trumpism. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/30/opinion/covid-misinformation-supplements.html Anybody who is gullible enough to vote for minority rule is gullible enough to buy or believe anything as long as the intellectuals are against it. #PS1minority ===== impress 48 time 2021-08-31 02:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1432534260716490753 ========== Changing demographics spell trouble for minority rule. https://apnews.com/article/census-2020-five-takeaways-f313d5d43eb90e4f1b5d69bd163597d0 That's why the GOP is in a panic to find ways to cement their power in place. #PS1minority ===== impress 55 time 2021-08-13 03:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1426022521753591808 ========== "Hungary is a place where democracy is window dressing and the state exists to plunder the public" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/06/opinion/tucker-carlson-viktor-orban.html Reactionaries love to praise dictatorships for money. More at thttps://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1471226166555231 #PS1minority ===== impress 32 time 2021-08-07 05:06 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1423873116481064963 ========== No bipartisanship on the fundamental pillars of minority rule - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html No on political democracy, on economic democracy, on judiciary that might support these. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/06/opinion/senate-mcconnell-democrats.html GOP senators know who paid for their campaigns and why. #PS1minority ===== impress 34 time 2021-08-07 04:49 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1423869004989353990 ========== Nobody's trying to find "proof" of anything - it's enough to create doubt about results that are certain beyond doubt. Then GOP state legislatures can just announce election results as they see fit. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/02/road-stealing-2024-election-begins-with-simple-step/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1470243406653507 #PS1minority ===== impress 32 time 2021-08-05 19:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1423361384977289216 ========== Laws don't apply to rich white people - the Trump doctrine. What's news about that? https://apnews.com/article/michael-brown-st-louis-20062ccc6593bd91757ad1ea4a190db5 #PS1minority ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 36 likes 1 time 2021-08-04 05:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1422794694015127557 ========== "Future generations will marvel at how we permitted elected leaders to contribute to so much anguish" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/02/businesses-try-thwart-republicans-death-cult/ No marvel - they are just advancing their political careers by doing what their donors tell them. That's how minority rule works. #PS1minority ===== engage 4 engage-rate 9% expands 1 impress 44 likes 1 time 2021-08-03 13:52 +0000 urlclicks 2 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1422555962724999184 ========== "strange to see Republicans oppose spending money even when it goes to their own constituents" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/02/gop-scamming-rural-trump-voters-continues-new-study-shows-latest/ Strange? Major GOP donors want lower taxes and hence less social safety net. They have wedge issue collaborators to cheaply distract GOP voters. #PS1minority ===== impress 45 time 2021-08-02 15:23 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1422216436525662213 ========== Protecting minority rule, just as in 1619 and 1880. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html The new sacred lost cause is the same old sacred lost cause - a tool to recruit the masses to defend the economic and political power of the feudal ruling class. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/28/opinion/republicans-race-debate.html #PS1minority ===== engage 1 engage-rate 4% impress 25 likes 1 time 2021-07-29 17:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1420797911328165888 ========== "Campaign funding from the national oligarchs is what sets legislative agendas across the red states. It clearly benefits the wealthy for taxes to be low or nonexistent and for poor people to be incurious and compliant." https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/19/opinion/tennessee-dolly-parton-covid-vaccine.html #PS1minority ===== impress 23 time 2021-07-19 21:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1417236051635015681 ========== Minority rule depends on dividing the masses against themselves. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html "Critical race theory" - which hardly any legislator can accurately define - is just this year's tool for division. https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article252655298.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1453833874961127 #PS1minority ===== impress 28 time 2021-07-12 15:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1414608622466703365 ========== Why were Jefferson's words about slavery removed from the Declaration of Independence? https://www.history.com/news/declaration-of-independence-deleted-anti-slavery-clause-jefferson Did black folks provoke the Revolution? https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/07/02/fourth-july-african-americans-declaration/ Many southerners were unsure about leaving England until they feared losing slavery. #PS1minority ===== impress 20 time 2021-07-06 01:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1412214836054790181 ========== It's only fair - the Chinese Communists are turning China into a dogmatic minority-rule income-inequality feudal society, so why shouldn't the GOP return the sincere flattery by imitation? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/05/republicans-are-treating-history-like-china-does/ #PS1minority ===== impress 17 time 2021-07-05 23:58 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1412199311262158857 ========== Memory laws - Stalin would be so proud of the modern Dixiecrat Republican Party. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/magazine/memory-laws.html All you have to do to make the past go away is say it didn't happen! So it won't be compared to the present. #PS1minority ===== impress 30 time 2021-06-30 04:37 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1410095105478778880 ========== Making the world safe for ignorance - again. https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article252373898.html An ignorant peasantry is easier to control. #PS1minority ===== impress 21 time 2021-06-29 03:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1409714665890873349 ========== Of course the modern Dixiecrat-Republican Party is based on ignorance; it's the legacy of the feudal Southern aristocrats who saw no need to educate poor whites much or black people at all. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/28/opinion/tucker-carlson-general-milley-republicans.html More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1444592139218634 #PS1minority ===== impress 22 time 2021-06-29 02:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1409706113298092034 ========== Between 1619 and 2021, there's not 402 years worth of difference - and that's the truth that the GOP is desperate to suppress, in order to sustain its minority rule. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/28/cold-truth-about-republicans-hot-air-over-critical-race-theory/ #PS1minority ===== impress 24 time 2021-06-29 02:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1409693208213221379 ========== Minority rule is not ancient history, but what's being fortified TODAY - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html and likewise the conflict over Critical Race Theory is not really about history and the Founding Fathers, but what's going on TODAY. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/26/opinion/critical-race-theory-schools-history.html #PS1minority ===== impress 11 time 2021-06-28 03:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1409347626726658050 ========== Pillars of minority rule - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html "The most consistent threat to our democracy has always been the drive of some leaders to restrict its blessings to a select few" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/26/opinion/trump-republican-party.html #PS1minority ===== engage 1 engage-rate 5% impress 20 time 2021-06-27 07:09 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1409046308774572032 ========== America is back - back in the race - but falling behind. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/23/opinion/america-security-competitiveness.html It's another victory for the feudal Southern Strategy of minority rule - make the rich richer let the poor shift for themselves. How well did that work for the South? #PS1minority ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 53 retweets 1 time 2021-06-26 13:34 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1408780766201274370 ========== "Come to church, bring money, and we'll take care of it" - Louis Lomax, 1965. The SBC was founded to protect an elite threatened by abolitionism. So it's a natural fit now with the modern Dixiecrat GOP. Why not incorporate QAnon as well? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/18/opinion/southern-baptist-convention-christianity.html #PS1minority ===== impress 40 time 2021-06-20 14:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1406615394694033419 ========== "ubiquity of loss" is a powerful theme for preserving minority rule - everywhere. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/16/opinion/trump-global-populism.html #PS1minority ===== impress 34 time 2021-06-18 02:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1405719835552620545 ========== Russians, Republicans - they've finally come to see that they are not enemies but are united in preserving minority rule by any available means. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/16/republicans-parroted-putins-propaganda-now-putin-parrots-republican-propaganda/ #PS1minority ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 40 time 2021-06-17 00:29 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1405321746467590146 ========== "a wandering outrage in search of a problem" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/13/opinion/critical-race-theory.html Stirring up conflict among the masses is a pillar of minority rule. #PS1minority ===== impress 34 time 2021-06-14 04:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1404295865389383680 ========== What kind of economy does the GOP want? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/04/new-jobs-numbers-raise-question-what-kind-economy-do-we-want/ Their major donors want a feudal one, with a small hereditary nobility and vast numbers of poverty-stricken serfs, deceived by propaganda into attacking each other instead of the nobility. #PS1minority ===== impress 34 time 2021-06-04 23:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1400959688225615874 ========== Vergangenheitsaufarbeitung https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/03/slavery-us-germany-holocaust-reckoning/ #PS1minority ===== impress 29 time 2021-06-03 14:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1400460493756657671 ========== "If you can teach people how to study how power worked 100 years ago, you are also teaching them how to study how power works today" https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/06/03/sherman-riot-texas-lynching-marker/ Can't allow threats to minority rule! Just rewrite history - worked for Stalin, works for Xi. #PS1minority ===== impress 35 time 2021-06-03 14:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1400454805856788481 ========== The Americanization of French politics. Why not - it's a global pandemic! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/02/opinion/france-cnews-americanization.html It's an easy solution to the problem of protecting minority rule. #PS1minority ===== impress 46 time 2021-06-03 03:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1400291734018351108 ========== How minority rule works in cowboy country. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/31/us/guernsey-wyoming-police-chief.html The police are there to serve and protect the ruling class, not the public. #PS1minority ===== impress 46 time 2021-06-01 05:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1399594708553244674 ========== Racial hatred is a pillar of minority rule. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html Not just in Tulsa. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/31/it-was-much-more-than-tulsa/ #PS1minority ===== impress 43 time 2021-06-01 04:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1399587778443104256 ========== GOP uses "critical race theory" for any attempt to talk about slavery and segregation - because those eras rhyme with voter suppression now. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/05/29/critical-race-theory-bans-schools/ Same kinds of politicians, same excuses, same hidden real agenda. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1425433437801171 #PS1minority ===== impress 38 time 2021-05-31 01:41 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1399179085050302465 ========== Unclear on the concept! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/30/id-be-republican-if-it-werent-republicans-so-might-many-other-african-americans/ The GOP is not interested in a few black voters who might go back to the Democrats at any time if they don't like GOP actions. In contrast, the GOP knows they have all the racists forever, no matter what. #PS1minority ===== engage 1 engage-rate 3% impress 35 time 2021-05-31 00:10 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1399156209140133888 ========== Strom Thurmond, founder of the modern Dixiecrat-Republican Party and champion filibusterer against civil rights! https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-filibusters-gun-politics-government-and-politics-93c53b3aa8d2b91d3c2d5884f3cdf139 His legacy lives on! https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1minority ===== impress 49 time 2021-05-28 00:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1398068894749716482 ========== Crises used to unite Americans - then the ruling class discovered that disunity better served its interests. https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article251676113.html #PS1minority ===== impress 37 time 2021-05-27 19:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1398005995708633090 ========== Of course racial antipathy is on the rise - dividing the masses against each other is a pillar of minority rule. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html Who's next? Trump's abler and bolder successor probably won't have Jewish inlaws. https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-el-paso-texas-mass-shooting-racial-injustice-health-coronavirus-pandemic-5e97feb8c498cbf80718a62d164f8285 #PS1minority ===== impress 49 time 2021-05-26 16:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1397596604220076032 ========== How did rich Southern slaveowners convince poor whites to fight for slavery? https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/06/confederate-lost-cause-myth/618711 The Lost Cause myth after the war pretended that it was about white freedom - feelings instead of facts. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1419006595110522 #PS1minority ===== impress 56 time 2021-05-21 05:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1395607950194999300 ========== "The radicalization of the Republican Party has outpaced what observers imagined" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/20/american-democracy-is-even-worse-shape-than-you-think/ The Dixiecrat-Republican Party has a plan to "move fast and break things" - depending on voter suppression and rural bias. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1418803215130860 #PS1minority ===== impress 41 time 2021-05-20 21:04 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1395485719360000000 ========== Ignorance is indeed a pillar of minority rule. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/critical-race-theory-texas-gop/2021/05/14/3ac33140-b4f3-11eb-a980-a60af976ed44_story.html How else could Southern aristocrats get poor whites to fight for slavery and against their own interests? #PS1minority ===== impress 38 time 2021-05-17 13:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1394285051764903936 ========== Teach civics to students? Primary sources and assessing reliability? Sounds like they are trying to undermine minority rule! GOP is against it! https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/05/15/civics-law-legislation-class-race/ #PS1minority ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 42 time 2021-05-16 14:13 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1393932690848579585 ========== It's not Democrats vs GOP any more - it's facts vs fantasy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-purging-of-liz-cheney-is-about-much-more-than-the-future-of-the-gop/2021/05/15/28808f1c-b4cd-11eb-ab43-bebddc5a0f65_story.html All to protect minority rule from democracy. #PS1minority ===== impress 38 time 2021-05-16 14:12 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1393932339898503174 ========== Everybody should welcome Cheney aligning with fact over fantasy about the 2020 election, but the big lie is fundamental to minority rule - that she still supports. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html Cheney hasn't gotten to the logical conclusion. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/14/liz-cheney-doesnt-go-far-enough/ #PS1minority ===== impress 41 time 2021-05-14 13:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1393200029989408774 ========== Demographics implied this would happen. Trump accelerated and tore off the fig leaves of Dixiecrat-Republican minority rule. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html It's not just the GOP - it's the future of the American experiment at stake. https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-05-09/liz-cheney-and-donald-trump-two-scorpions-in-a-bottle-so-far-trump-is-winning #PS1minority ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% expands 1 impress 55 time 2021-05-11 21:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1392237196158009344 ========== Arizona auditors defer knocking on doors, until they think they can get away with voter intimidation. https://www.reuters.com/business/legal/auditors-halt-plans-knock-arizona-voters-doors-amid-justice-department-scrutiny-2021-05-10/ It's all part and parcel of minority rule. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1minority ===== impress 47 time 2021-05-11 01:39 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1391930967158247427 ========== "So long as the voters do not catch on" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/29/republicans-are-raising-self-sabotage-an-art-form/ A lot of the voters have not caught on after 400 years of minority rule, so why would they catch on now? The GOP donors' greatest fear is that the Democrats will pass laws that GOP voters like. #PS1minority ===== impress 39 time 2021-04-29 21:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1387882402513448969 ========== Bernie Madoff, Mr Richfield, affinity fraud, and Dixiecrat-Republican minority rule - it's all one neat package. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/26/opinion/biden-climate-republicans-meat.html https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1402057886805393 https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1minority ===== impress 60 time 2021-04-27 04:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1386894624707387392 ========== 60 years ago, writing about 90 years earlier - Southern "Bourbons raised the flag of white supremacy and aroused the poor-white agrarians against the Negro; Bourbons and agrarians then combined in the name of white solidarity". https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/25/opinion/tom-wicker-racism.html No change! #PS1minority ===== impress 83 time 2021-04-26 22:47 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1386814314724478976 ========== GOP will keep recounting until it gets the result it wants! https://apnews.com/article/elections-election-2020-business-government-and-politics-arizona-a56ee7c8214ecc876424ee3428e3ab72 Won't say who's paying, of course. #PS1minority ===== impress 62 time 2021-04-25 22:48 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1386451958484160513 ========== The Dinosaurs TV series explains minority rule. In Episode 1, worker Sinclair asks boss Richfield for a raise - and gets fired. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eskYvfJzf8 Episode 3 has the lie that keep workers in line. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm6-ZWXHWpU More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1402057886805393 #PS1minority ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 60 time 2021-04-25 22:24 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1386446083765673984 ========== The ruling class, through its media, has convinced large numbers of GOP voters that they are in apocalyptic times - much like Germany in the 1920's. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/22/opinion/trump-gop.html Is this all a means enable a Trumpist dictator - bolder and smarter than Trump? #PS1minority ===== impress 46 time 2021-04-23 01:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1385401348603056131 ========== Slavery, Segregation, Suppression of voters - it's one continuous story of minority rule. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/in-todays-uphill-struggle-to-combat-voter-suppression-remember-the-pearl/2021/04/09/87ec4e48-98b0-11eb-b28d-bfa7bb5cb2a5_story.html #PS1minority ===== impress 62 time 2021-04-10 04:56 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1380746601195429889 ========== The slave power of the Southern aristocracy has been transmitted to the modern Dixiecrat-Trumpist Republican party. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_Power The rhetoric is slightly changed; the goal of preserving minority rule is exactly the same. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1minority ===== impress 65 time 2021-04-10 04:32 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1380740520930988038 ========== Nullification! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullification_crisis The sons of John C Calhoun thrive in Idaho! https://apnews.com/article/legislature-legislation-coronavirus-pandemic-courts-bills-94315d1a6151d0e58b1085cc62dd3f95 If Idaho passes this, most of the sagebrush country and the deep South will too. Might be time for regional federalism - https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-regional.html #PS1minority ===== impress 65 time 2021-04-10 01:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1380687639620116481 ========== The essential quandary of minority rule. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/05/republicans-scramble-reasons-oppose-biden-infrastructure-plan/ How do you get your voters to oppose something they like? Obamacare proved that if the GOP doesn't prevent something, they it can't repeal it. So oppose everything. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1minority ===== impress 63 time 2021-04-09 14:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1380534807185137666 ========== Dig it up or make it up! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/arizona-republicans-desperate-crusade-to-find-nonexistent-voter-fraud/2021/04/02/31507e7c-93f8-11eb-a74e-1f4cf89fd948_story.html They found the perfect contractor - from Florida, of course. The honest thing would be to change the candidates and policies to win elections fair and square. The donors say no to that. https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1376797479331434 #PS1minority ===== impress 55 time 2021-04-04 18:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1378779125150670848 ========== Don't take down all the Confederate statues. https://apnews.com/article/laws-slavery-texas-native-americans-0062fa106a270f7ae9001c7c3598e0f2 Remove all the generals that profited from slavery. But keep the statues of anonymous conscripted foot soldiers - identify them as additional victims of Southern feudal minority rule. #PS1minority ===== impress 53 time 2021-04-04 17:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1378763164163080193 ========== How the Republican billionaires consolidated their control of the GOP. They consolidated the right-wing media and told them what to say to keep their listeners engaged and enraged. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/02/what-scorching-john-boehner-book-excerpt-says-about-todays-gop/ More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1386804761664039 #PS1minority ===== impress 58 time 2021-04-03 01:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1378159383457136640 ========== Boldly looking away from the New South back to the Old South. https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/georgia-governor-brian-kemp-painting-slave-plantation-20210326.html "the past is never dead. It's not even past" #PS1minority ===== impress 42 time 2021-04-01 14:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1377634716161994760 ========== A perfect minority rule wedge. GOP hopes virus restrictions create a new bloc of single-issue voters. Maybe they will keep voting GOP and protecting minority rule, thinking they are protesting virus restrictions. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gop-is-facing-a-sickness-deeper-than-the-coronavirus/2021/03/29/6addd488-90cd-11eb-9668-89be11273c09_story.html #PS1minority ===== impress 35 time 2021-03-29 23:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1376674477795254278 ========== "a false and misplaced perception of victimization" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/29/us/politics/transgender-girls-sports.html Minority rule in action again - creating doubtful tiny victimizations to distract the masses from their actual massive victimization. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1minority ===== impress 57 time 2021-03-29 20:14 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1376628813480620034 ========== How minority rule works - divide the masses against each other. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/29/republicans-want-you-call-their-policies-racist-its-part-their-plan/ That way they won't notice which minority is really working against them. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1minority ===== impress 43 time 2021-03-29 20:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1376625283034279937 ========== Amazing the argument Republicans make, then agree that it's all about losing their minority rule. https://apnews.com/article/politics-race-and-ethnicity-muriel-bowser-district-of-columbia-2269e23ae0912ddb37af9e432b49b91d If they were really interested in retrocession to Maryland, they should have accomplished that during their majority. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#Federal%20territories #PS1minority ===== impress 46 time 2021-03-23 23:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1374504654201966598 ========== Ruling class declares war on the masses! https://apnews.com/article/legislature-voting-rights-ted-cruz-legislation-elections-6270306f67108ac16f4ee7b45a8afdb3 No more fig leaves. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1minority ===== impress 61 time 2021-03-20 01:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1373079217194242053 ========== "It strains credulity to assume that racism is accidental in today's GOP" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/19/stop-giving-racists-benefit-doubt/ Of course it's not accidental - stirring up the masses against each other is a pillar of minority rule! https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1minority ===== impress 42 time 2021-03-19 15:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1372938880966561794 ========== Time for politician suppression! https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article249983124.html Can we make these the last days of minority rule? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1minority ===== impress 36 time 2021-03-19 13:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1372907452128133120 ========== "politics of lies and bigotry that has become the GOP¢s calling card" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/18/two-intel-reports-upend-gop-propaganda/ "has become"? Nothing new! The Dixiecrats started to take over the GOP in the 60's, and became invasive and pervasive under Trump. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1376618142682701 #PS1minority ===== impress 52 time 2021-03-18 16:15 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1372582564553060362 ========== A perfect single-issue GOP voter - all she cares about is right to life. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/disinformation-conspiracy-family/ Minority rule is based on such voters. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1minority ===== impress 43 time 2021-03-14 01:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1370911504409628673 ========== It's all about reinforcing minority rule - by voter suppression - by preserving the filibuster against HR1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/12/gop-strategy-crippling-biden-retaking-power-is-hiding-plain-sight/ All the other issues they talk about are secondary to this one. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1minority ===== impress 42 time 2021-03-12 18:10 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1370437005033705473 ========== Judicial overreach or legislative overreach? https://apnews.com/article/push-to-oust-tennessee-judge-over-absentee-vote-44062e88bc5bfc9dc957ba70f164e365 And how about the idea to litigate Tennessee constitutional questions in rural areas rather than Nashville, the state capital? #PS1minority ===== impress 42 time 2021-03-10 01:45 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1369464307621060610 ========== "no other way you can describe this other than racism" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/06/us/politics/churches-black-voters-georgia.html #PS1minority ===== impress 29 time 2021-03-07 22:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1368691208873156608 ========== The essence of the new deal has always been to DO things that actually benefit the masses. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/biden-is-rolling-back-the-culture-war-the-country-should-thank-him/2021/03/05/600fea82-7dea-11eb-85cd-9b7fa90c8873_story.html The essence of minority rule has always been to SAY things to make the voters angry at each other, then DO things that actually benefit the donors. #PS1minority ===== impress 29 time 2021-03-07 19:07 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1368639490521112582 ========== The #1 GOP objective is protecting minority rule - to protect billionaire tax cuts, deregulation, and reactionary judiciary. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/07/wanted-voting-rights-campaign-chief/ Democrats' #1 objective has to be protecting majority rule - to protect all other Biden accomplishments. #PS1minority ===== impress 28 time 2021-03-07 19:01 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1368637889689444353 ========== "democracy is working against Republicans — and so Republicans are working against democracy" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/05/republicans-arent-fighting-democrats-theyre-fighting-democracy/ Minority rule always depends on suppressing opposing votes. The GOP welcomed the Dixiecrats, and their traditions, 50 years ago. #PS1minority ===== impress 31 time 2021-03-06 02:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1368018501865066499 ========== Minority rule never changes - ruling classes dividing the masses, racism, voter suppression, filibuster. The original GOP finally abandoned southern blacks to their sad fate. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/05/opinion/filibuster-voting-rights.html The modern GOP IS their sad fate. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1minority ===== impress 44 time 2021-03-05 15:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1367865552211865602 ========== SAY one thing and DO the opposite! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/05/maga-has-never-been-about-economics/ It's how minority rule works. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1minority ===== impress 37 time 2021-03-05 15:35 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1367861293261131779 ========== "how long will it take the Republicans to figure out that driving out heretics rather than winning new converts is a losing strategy?" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/04/us/politics/republicans-workers-covid-bill.html Maybe forever. Under minority rule, the voters vote, and the donors receive the benefits. #PS1minority ===== impress 43 time 2021-03-05 01:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1367646710885879808 ========== "if the rules are fair, they will lose" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republicans-rhetoric-on-hr-1-is-apocalyptic-are-they-that-afraid-of-democracy/2021/03/04/22410f0c-7d2b-11eb-a976-c028a4215c78_story.html Of course! Minority rule can't survive fair elections. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1minority ===== impress 36 time 2021-03-05 00:36 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1367635195306774528 ========== If you can't think of something meaningful, think about something meaningless! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/03/03/american-right-is-consumed-with-its-cultural-lost-cause/ Meaningless issues to distract the masses https://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#political%20ideology%20for%20the%20masses are a pillar of minority rule https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1minority ===== impress 34 time 2021-03-04 15:05 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1367491355765854208 ========== Every Republican senator would vote for the Biden recovery package in a minute if Biden promised to keep the filibuster https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/things-are-about-to-get-a-lot-harder-for-joe-biden/2021/03/03/473c562a-7c5b-11eb-b3d1-9e5aa3d5220c_story.html Republican eyes are on the real prize - derailing HR1 to protect minority rule. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1366722990338883 #PS1minority ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 62 time 2021-03-04 00:49 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1367276006357172224 ========== How single-issue politics works. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/03/opinion/abortion-trump-heatbeat.html Politicians who vote the way they want on their single issue can then vote any way they like the rest of the time. Single-issue voters are a pillar of minority rule. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1366701263674389 #PS1minority ===== impress 36 time 2021-03-03 23:52 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1367261714794704898 ========== How's the Supreme Court going to rule on voting rights? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/02/opinion/voting-rights-act-supreme-court.html Like Plessy v Ferguson - SAY everybody has an equal chance. Or like Brown v Board - DO what is needed so everybody has an equal chance. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1366234363721079 #PS1minority ===== impress 35 time 2021-03-03 07:00 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1367006862126637059 ========== CPAC proved it - Democrats must maximize democracy while they have a chance. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/28/us/politics/trump-cpac-republicans.html Democrats are going to have to bite the bullet and eliminate filibuster before they can immunize democracy. More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1365229630488219 #PS1minority ===== impress 42 time 2021-03-01 16:22 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1366423638879080448 ========== Republicans don't even bother making policy arguments or proposals. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/26/gops-strategy-retaking-power-is-uglier-than-you-think/ Their path back to power is just reinforcing minority rule. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html Thus Democrats must dump the filibuster if necessary to get DC and PR statehood. #PS1minority ===== impress 46 time 2021-02-26 18:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1365370735561109505 ========== A founder of the modern GOP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Tillman A Dixiecrat that proudly murdered black Republicans, but if he were reborn in our time he'd be a happy Trumpist. Political labels don't mean as much as political beliefs and actions. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1minority ===== impress 48 time 2021-02-26 15:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1365321965540532228 ========== No politicians on the Jan 6 Commission! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/26/republicans-real-beef-with-16-commission/ McConnell et al want to suppress evidence of the modern GOP's absolute dependence on the support of violent white supremacists. But that's all built into minority rule. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1minority ===== impress 45 time 2021-02-26 15:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1365320268072148992 ========== What will young attendees learn from CPAC? Absolutely nothing conservative! Reactionary populist maybe. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/theres-nothing-conservative-about-cpac/2021/02/25/da969d0a-77a5-11eb-8115-9ad5e9c02117_story.html They'll learn how to reinforce minority rule, without even knowing it. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1minority ===== impress 45 time 2021-02-26 15:09 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1365318124644356096 ========== Indians in power are as great a threat to the land of sagebrush as black people in power are a threat to the land of cotton. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/25/senate-republicans-deb-haaland-nomination/ It's all a threat to minority rule. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1minority ===== impress 42 time 2021-02-26 00:42 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1365099973407174656 ========== It was briefly legal to teach black children to read and write. Later Virginia legislators came to their senses and realized that literate blacks would read subversive literature like the Bible and the Declaration of Independence. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/bray-school-william-mary/2021/02/24/d7888cc8-76c8-11eb-948d-19472e683521_story.html #PS1minority ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 64 time 2021-02-25 17:42 +0000 urlclicks 1 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1364994108398309379 ========== Johnson, Carlson, Scalise, Schlapp - all trying to rewrite history before the ink is even dry. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/02/23/how-effort-deny-reality-jan-6-attack-is-evolving/ If the people don't believe a little lie, feed them a bigger lie. Minority rule is a lie from top to bottom. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1minority ===== impress 48 time 2021-02-24 00:02 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1364364966615162882 ========== Their forefathers suppressed the black vote 150 years ago and 60 years ago and they're eager to uphold the same proud tradition! https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-us-news-race-and-ethnicity-stacey-abrams-georgia-93f7d957172f59968571e7d45874a814 Where would the GOP be if everybody were allowed to vote? Minority rule is not based on a majority voting! #PS1minority ===== impress 44 time 2021-02-23 23:16 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1364353408484876288 ========== Ted Cruz - a force for national unity! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/19/just-how-unpopular-is-ted-cruz/ The donors must like him! That's all you need under minority rule. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1minority ===== impress 37 time 2021-02-19 15:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1362794067839520770 ========== The power of single-issue constituencies. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/us/W-McCall-Calhoun-Jr-georgia-capitol-riot.html A pillar of minority rule is to find single-issue constituencies who can be kept in the fold at low cost to the main program. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1minority ===== impress 32 time 2021-02-18 19:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1362481936850063360 ========== "Don't ever put people who don't believe in government in charge of government" https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/18/texas-republicans-abbott-power-shortages/ Distracting and diverting the masses is a pillar of minority rule. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1minority ===== impress 32 time 2021-02-18 18:46 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1362473650746626049 ========== Speaking for the ruling class, one Texas politician has the guts to tell the truth about how they all feel. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/02/17/texas-mayor-power-outages-colorado/ Major GOP donors aren't in trouble so what's the problem? Government is the problem, not the solution! #PS1minority ===== impress 41 time 2021-02-18 03:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1362248381171519489 ========== As always, GOP VOTERS favor Democratic economics, as long as they don't know it's Democratic. GOP DONORS are the issue. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-democrats-arent-fraidy-cats-anymore/2021/02/17/3f74a8f8-7156-11eb-93be-c10813e358a2_story.html But as McConnell etc. know, if you can get the donors, you can buy the voters. That's a pillar of minority rule. #PS1minority ===== impress 26 time 2021-02-18 01:27 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1362212097493409794 ========== Permanent legislative standoff and impeachments and insurrection? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/us/politics/impeachment-election-results-congress.html That's what you get when you combine minority rule with cult of personality and media that will say anything for money and ratings. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1minority ===== impress 37 time 2021-02-16 14:38 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1361686391604740101 ========== A lesson from Charlie Wilson's War - Wilson describes minority rule - he faithfully served three single-issue constituencies (blacks, Jews, and anti-communists), and did as he liked the rest of the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Wilson%27s_War_(film) More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1356482481362934 #PS1minority ===== impress 40 time 2021-02-15 22:51 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1361448004461334535 ========== While the Democrats have a majority, slender as it is, they must tackle the roots of minority rule. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/13/massive-gop-betrayal-our-democracy-requires-forceful-democratic-response/ Nothing will ever be fixed for long until minority rule is fixed. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1minority ===== impress 27 time 2021-02-13 23:55 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1360739281669558276 ========== Racism has been setting back poor and middle class white people for two generations. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/opinion/race-economy-inequality-civil-rights.html But RICH white people, the kind that donate to politicians, are doing better than ever! So what's the problem? More at https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/1355040341507148 #PS1minority ===== impress 38 time 2021-02-13 17:33 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1360643318116356108 ========== Filibuster is a vital tool for minority rule. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-adam-jentleson.html Minority rule succeeds by blocking the majority. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1minority ===== impress 42 time 2021-02-12 18:29 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1360294861505654787 ========== The essence of minority rule is to keep the voters worked up about issues that the ruling class doesn't care about. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republicans-have-been-living-the-big-lie-for-too-long/2021/02/04/223e06fe-6728-11eb-886d-5264d4ceb46d_story.html Then quietly take action on issues that the ruling class does care about. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1minority ===== impress 29 time 2021-02-06 18:59 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1358128156243234818 ========== The fruits of minority rule - the rich get richer, https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/02/08/wealth-concentration-returning-levels-last-seen-during-roaring-twenties-according-new-research/ and the poor get distracted by the clever minions of the rich. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1minority ===== impress 38 time 2021-01-31 20:26 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1355975874986659842 ========== Eric Cantor thinks politicians should tell voters the truth. Is that why he's not in politics any more? https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/many-of-my-fellow-politicians-wont-tell-voters-the-truth-the-result-was-jan-6/2021/01/28/08e38ff6-618a-11eb-afbe-9a11a127d146_story.html How can GOP minority-rule advocates ever get elected if they tell the truth? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1minority ===== impress 35 time 2021-01-31 20:19 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1355974026649198592 ========== The three S's Slavery Segregation Suppression https://apnews.com/article/bills-voting-rights-elections-coronavirus-pandemic-voter-registration-0e94844d72d2a2bf8b51b1c950bd64fc You can't be half-hearted about preserving minority rule! https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1minority ===== impress 36 time 2021-01-31 19:18 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1355958771260874753 ========== It's time to do something about minority rule. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/01/democrats-biggest-decision-nuking-filibuster/617854/ There might not be another chance. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1minority ===== impress 49 time 2021-01-28 23:25 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1354933624391438349 ========== The filibuster reinforces minority rule - GOP senators are content if nothing passes when they are out of power. https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/senate-gridlock-threatens-biden-agenda/2021/01/23/6119e512-5cf3-11eb-b8bd-ee36b1cd18bf_story.html Supermajorities for routine business is just another tool of minority rule. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#filibuster #PS1minority ===== engage 1 engage-rate 2% impress 57 likes 1 time 2021-01-24 15:24 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1353363108534751232 ========== "Why do these rich and well-connected people get this special treatment?" https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/21/us/politics/trump-pardons-medicare-fraud.html BECAUSE they are rich and well-connected!! What is it that you don't understand about Trumpism and minority rule? https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1minority ===== impress 41 time 2021-01-23 01:44 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1352794370878054400 ========== Trump was almost the apotheosis of minority rule - distracting the masses while the ruling classes took what they wanted. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/22/opinion/trump-legacy.html His bolder abler successor will try to finish the job by making minority rule permanent. https://www.political-scrapbook.net/2020-minority.html #PS1minority ===== impress 37 time 2021-01-23 00:13 +0000 https://twitter.com/politicalscrap1/status/1352771337303908352