In response to Republican (A Party which the SCOTUS-alt6 now mirrors in intent) attacks on democracy and the gutting of established human rights, Democrats counter with unimaginative legalistic challenges and/or dreams of recapturing power lost. Their efforts seem frail and fearful of voter and media disapproval.
It is simple, Trump Republicans want to take away our freedoms: From our freedom to vote and pick leaders who represent us in free and fair elections, to our freedom to decide for ourselves whether and when we have children, to our children’s freedom to learn the truth of our history, and to our freedom to not be plagued by gun violence. They want to take away our freedoms and rule only for the wealthy white few.
Republicans follow their script of blocking and delaying while filling all breathing space with reckless, boisterous, and relentless bickering while Fox accuses and lies and mainstream media equivocates.
Meanwhile with reckless entitlement, bellicose Republicans manipulate truth and engage in smothering obstructionism and ever-divertive sabotage in all branches and levels of government that they control. Notably in the Senate, which Democrats only nominally control, two Democrats, captured by corporate dark money and fossil-fuel interests, block a party majority vote against the filibuster.
Citizens poll against gun carry, for “Build Back Better,” and for Roe v. Wade by large majorities. They can only roll their eyes and respond to public polls with their disapproval while corporate-funded Republicans from sparsely-populated states & life-time-appointed justices appointed by Republicans continue to ignore majority polls.
Republicans and their dark-money-purchased justices defy public opinion, and the citizenry can only march on the streets following the more outrageous Republican actions to strip away rights.
It takes a large majority vote — well over 50% — to keep or increase majorities in House GOP-gerrymandered states. In these states, Republicans make voting difficult by design for non-white voters and voters more apt to vote Democrat. Furthermore, legislation even gives Republican state legislatures the power to manipulate the vote if voting irregularities are discovered, most likely falsely by Republican election officials.
Currently the Senate is split 50 Democrats to 50 Republicans but the 50 Democrats represent 186.3 M people while the 50 Republicans represent 144.8 M people from mostly rural low-population states.
When such unequal representation is joined with an archaic electoral vote count electing the President rather than popular votes, our system seems riddled with mistakes. In only one term of five elections have Republicans had a popular vote majority. Trump, a minority president by 3 million votes, appointed three far-right Supreme Court justices, one stolen by Mitch McConnell, giving them an overwhelming 6 to 3 majority.
With gerrymandering, the electoral college system, the minority strength of the US Senate, a timid Democratic Party, fickle voters, and the alt-right SCOTUS, democracy is on the chopping block.
