Re: NYTimes.com: The Republican Party Is Succeeding Because We Are Not a True Democracy

2022-01-06 Thread Telmo Menezes
> So maybe the human race can survive the USA becoming a failed state, and > maybe it cannot. So you have to ask yourself one question, do I feel lucky > today? Well do you Telmo? We both bet on the MWI so... > >> >> *> My point is: do we really need to drag American politics into every >>

Re: NYTimes.com: The Republican Party Is Succeeding Because We Are Not a True Democracy

2022-01-06 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Telmo,  As one US rightist politician (Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan) said, "We do have a right to our own opinion, but we do not have a right to our own facts." In the past I have done the pushback on JC and Lawrence the physicist even, because they go whacky on hating their opposition, to the p

Re: NYTimes.com: The Republican Party Is Succeeding Because We Are Not a True Democracy

2022-01-06 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Agreed. Its a oligarchy in the form of a plutocracy. I sometimes wonder if it hasn't been this way since the Civil War, or is it fully an oligarchy because of the Citizens United Supreme Court Ruling around 2011? For psychotic mania, as an example, all I need to do is look at the riots of 2020 t