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Opinion: Americans must get serious about fighting the Republican threat to our democracy
The Chicago Sun-Times ^ | December 6, 2021 | By Mark Jacob

Posted on 12/07/2021 9:18:50 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

It’s not your grandfather’s Republican Party now, unless your grandfather was a fascist. The GOP is dangerous, and we must take action to make sure our children live in a free country.

… Few Republicans nowadays have that much patriotism. In fact, the party has become a corrupt force spouting violent rhetoric and plotting to overthrow our democracy. It’s not your grandfather’s Republican Party now, unless your grandfather was a fascist.

I’m not asking you to become a Democrat. I’m asking you to become an anti-Republican. Here are six reasons why it’s time to get serious about the GOP threat:

1. “Majority rules” is a myth.

A recent poll showed only 26% of Americans consider themselves Republicans. Obviously, more Americans lean that way, but the GOP hasn’t won a plurality in a national election since 2004.

2. The deck is stacked for Republicans.

The American system is great in many ways. But the Senate’s makeup and the existence of the Electoral College promote inequality.

3. On top of their built-in edge, Republicans are willing to cheat.

They tried to overturn the last presidential election based on zero evidence of significant fraud.

4. Criminals often get away with it.

Don’t count on the courts to stop Republican criminals.

5. People are manipulated by fear.

Republicans follow the fascist playbook: manufacture enemies.

6. The time to make a difference is running out.

If the Republicans win the House next November, they will be in a position to block the true results of the 2024 election and certify rival groups of presidential electors in key states. This is just one of the ways they could steal the election.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gaslighting; journalism; markjacob; marxism; marxistjacob; media; msm; press
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Mark Jacob is a former editor at the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune.
1 posted on 12/07/2021 9:18:50 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

you simply cannot fix stupid


2 posted on 12/07/2021 9:20:19 AM PST by wny ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Did Stacey Abrams ghost-write this? Or maybe Alyssa Milano or Babs Streisand?


3 posted on 12/07/2021 9:20:43 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hey, Mark Jacob . . . BOO!


4 posted on 12/07/2021 9:21:06 AM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What is the “Republican threat”-—other than they’re a bunch of pansies!


5 posted on 12/07/2021 9:21:22 AM PST by mikelets456
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

From the people who staged the Big Steal!

Hilarious


6 posted on 12/07/2021 9:21:37 AM PST by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So a pimp for the party of slavery is claiming the other guys are fascists. Reading his list gave the distinct impression that it actually applied to the dem party, item for item.


7 posted on 12/07/2021 9:21:38 AM PST by DPMD ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Muh lose our democracy. Specifically what is their definition of a democracy? Specifically what have Republicans done to destroy it?


8 posted on 12/07/2021 9:21:56 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If you want to know what the Democrats are up to, look at what they’re accusing others of doing.


9 posted on 12/07/2021 9:22:45 AM PST by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Whether consciously or unconsciously he just described democrats.

CC


10 posted on 12/07/2021 9:22:55 AM PST by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It is just that many of the Republican party, have finally gotten the picture that Republican was really the UNI party, and never was different than the Democrats, Trump is giving us a new definition of what Republican is. I think it is GREAT..


11 posted on 12/07/2021 9:23:00 AM PST by rovenstinez
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To: Sans-Culotte

Not enough spelling errors and run-on sentences for those three ‘brainiacs’ to have written this. ;)

Cher is ruled out, too. :)


12 posted on 12/07/2021 9:23:11 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A view into the leftists mindset - kind of like looking into a sewer except less appealing than a sewer.


13 posted on 12/07/2021 9:23:29 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: Regulator

“...they (republicans) will be in a position to block the true results of the 2024 election...” He must be referring to the upcoming election whose results are already in and not surprisingly show a massive dem landslide.


14 posted on 12/07/2021 9:23:37 AM PST by DPMD ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s in his dna


15 posted on 12/07/2021 9:23:52 AM PST by wardaddy (Too many uninformed ..and scolds here )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“A recent poll showed only 26% of Americans consider themselves Republicans.”

You really need to do some polling OUTSIDE of the Newsrooms at the Times and the Tribune, Mark! *SNORT*


16 posted on 12/07/2021 9:24:16 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
They pinkos are still spouting the bunk "no eivdence" claim.

Once they get on a lie they don't let it go.


17 posted on 12/07/2021 9:24:20 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Usually it takes a little while before the accusations of fascism/Naziism kick in, but this is right off the bat. Amazing.


18 posted on 12/07/2021 9:24:44 AM PST by packagingguy
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The mental illness of God hating liberals causes this. What is interesting about it is that in their mental state, even as the liberalism they have already brought about destroys everything around them, they STILL think they are doing the “right” thing. Blind Godless fools.


19 posted on 12/07/2021 9:24:47 AM PST by Democrat = party of treason
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America is a republic not a democracy and you can’t save the country by eliminating the electoral college.
Importing 3rd worlders to vote for you because normal Americans won’t isnt exactly saving “democracy” anyway.


20 posted on 12/07/2021 9:25:08 AM PST by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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