Without gerrymandering, expensive all media blitz campaigns and massive voter suppression, what are the odds Republicans could rule anything?

Who votes to keep things as they are and to fight against progress? Can that be anyone?

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They couldnt.. In a straight vote the Republicans never poll 50% nationally.. But people tend to forget that America was nenver meant as a Democracy. Its a Republic, where in the original form, White, Christian, Male Landowners had a vote. And most of them owned slaves and treated wives as property under law.
Thats just to give you a handle on how you ended up where you are. If you want a true democracy you have to put in to it, not expect things out of it.
If you want true Democracy, move on. It doesnt live in America..

Elevatorpitches · F

@whowasthatmaskedman Deist

different from "Christian"

example Ben Franklin, of course he was not a green hippie either.
just saying... he DID understand about getting up early and owning your own little gigs. We could use more people like him now teaching in community colleges

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

@Elevatorpitches We agree on this. I had a lot of time for Ben Franklin.. But I would differentiate between "Christian" as a set of principles of living that I would apply to Franklin. and "Christian" as a label applied to the majority of Americans who profess a Faith.

Elevatorpitches · F

@whowasthatmaskedman Deist meant they would never get the fanatics to WOW them!
heh