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Hey Democrats, Fighting Fair Is for Suckers
Hotair.com ^ | 7-5-18

Posted on 07/05/2018 10:32:18 AM PDT by DeweyCA

"Faris’ response to the Normalcy program is that there is no value in conserving a burning house. The endangered state of American liberal democracy, he argues, calls for emergency steps from Democrats and the left. They should take advantage of legal and constitutional silences to “transform American politics in a lasting progressive direction,” Faris writes. “Doing so will require party leaders to pursue policy changes that will be ridiculed by their opponents as outrageous affronts to democratic decency and received by their own voters with puzzlement or even shock. They need to do it anyway.”

The list of those changes is dizzying. Grant statehood to D.C. and Puerto Rico, and break California in seven, with the goal of adding 16 new Democrats to the Senate. Expand the Supreme Court and the federal courts, packing them with liberal judges. Move to multi-member House districts to roll back the effects of partisan gerrymandering. Pass a new Voting Rights Act, including nationwide automatic voter registration, felon enfranchisement and an end to voter ID laws. Grant citizenship to millions of undocumented immigrants, creating a host of new Democratic-leaning voters: “Republicans have always feared that immigration would change the character of American society. Democrats should reward them with their very worst nightmare.”


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2018election; 2020election; alinsky; authoritarianism; courtpacking; cw2; election2018; election2020; faris; leftism; leftists; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; power; presstitutes; smearmachine
In the original article, David Faris, a political science prof, proposes that Dems reject ALL former restraints on their drive for power. He advocates that Dems create a situation which would ensure that they gain permanent power. He is, in effect, advocating for creating a dictatorship when he writes,
If Democrats are resolved to fight dirty, they should be studying cases of successful and failed realignments, fleshing out the ideological framework to explain themselves, and building the internal consensus it will take to follow through. They should be assessing their leaders with the goal of realignment in mind, rejecting those whose mental models still have a place for concepts like “meaningful bipartisanship.”
1 posted on 07/05/2018 10:32:18 AM PDT by DeweyCA
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To: DeweyCA

The Dems have always been clear their final goal is the full destruction and replacement of the United States with something unrelated and unrecognizable. As in all extreme leftist societies this will include authoritarianism and will not include the people having a say any longer in their futures or the way their country is run. The leftist elites are certain they know how to create a perfect society, if only they can grab enough power and force everyone to submit to them. We’ve already seen how that turns out.

We should always remember what this is all about: disenfranchising American citizens and steeling their country from them.


2 posted on 07/05/2018 10:40:45 AM PDT by FenwickBabbitt
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To: FenwickBabbitt

*stealing


3 posted on 07/05/2018 10:42:25 AM PDT by FenwickBabbitt
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To: DeweyCA

If California breaks itself up, the remaining states need not either recognize these new entites as states nor recognize any of them as the legitimate successor to the existing state.

So if they’re dumb enough to try, we can make it mean a net Dem loss of 2 Senators and a couple dozen House seats.


4 posted on 07/05/2018 11:25:20 AM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 1)
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To: FenwickBabbitt

Leftards will get their LIbtard fools to shriek “UNFAIR” when anyone else uses the leftist tactics agains them.

But we dont have to descend to their vileness.

DENOUNCE, BOYCOTT, AND KEEP YOUR GUNS LOADED


5 posted on 07/05/2018 1:06:24 PM PDT by elbook
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