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Bern's avatar

Yup.

The insight I had 40 years ago was that Republicans had run out of ideas for governance and had decided to go with the full suite of big lies, because that was all they had left. I marveled then at how well it worked. What I did not link to was the pure fascism also on display – it was not til later that I realized the big lie routine (a well-proven technique for disassembling a society) was the central lever that fascism pressed on. My faith-in-humanity blinders kept me from seeing that the lie was the point – without the lie the rest of it falls apart (or more to the point – never gets assembled in the first place).

So here we are now in an existential struggle, one that we depend on our elected officials to fight with every weapon and tool within their reach. And maybe, finally, Democrats are figuring out that the thing that their party's name derives from is in imminent threat of extinction. And maybe they are figuring out that without democracy itself, a party calling itself "democratic" is nothing but the butt end of a joke...

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Barbara Mehlman's avatar

Like you, like my friends, we’ve run out of trying to work together with the republicans. They see their job as to obstruct and say no. Not govern. So Dem legislators, to my absolute delight, are saying work with us, or not. If not, we’ll work around you, or walk over you, but we’ll get it done. Finally!

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