NYT Warns of ‘Right-Wing Threat’ to Democracy, Calls to ‘War-Game’ Insurgency

[Occam's Banana]

Presently, for example, many Democrats are quite literally asserting that supporting "democracy" means supporting everything the Democrat party wants, and opposing anything the Democrat party wants means opposing "democracy".

"It's only democracy when my side is succeeding."

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[Slave Mentality]

Agreed. I worded that poorly. I meant that "the country" doesn't get past 2024. I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing, but it's gonna be a bumpy ride to say the least.

I catch your drift. I even think the country will be around well past 2024. It will be a literal gulag, but it will still exist with a government and eveything. A geat big oppressive, murderous, and corrupt bunch of psycos. Kind of like we have now, but without the pretty storefront.

We are definetly on the verticle portion of the logarithmic bumpy curve, mang! I can't even keep up with the rate of change in crazy. It's not boring at least.

 

[Occam's Banana]

 

[Dr.3D]

The greatest fault of our founders was not setting very high majority requirements for passing of legislation. Forget super majority. They should have set it at 80 percent to pass new legislation.

As a society, it needs to be consensus, not the dictates of a bare majority. The push in Senate to eliminate 60% and filibuster requirements is direct evidence of their desire to subject and force things on a greater and greater proportion of society.

Anything without an 80% or greater consensus should not be engaged in by government.

I agree 100%.

 

[Swordsmyth]

The greatest fault of our founders was not setting very high majority requirements for passing of legislation. Forget super majority. They should have set it at 80 percent to pass new legislation.

As a society, it needs to be consensus, not the dictates of a bare majority. The push in Senate to eliminate 60% and filibuster requirements is direct evidence of their desire to subject and force things on a greater and greater proportion of society.

Anything without an 80% or greater consensus should not be engaged in by government.

Very good.
I might set the threshold a little lower but the general idea is correct.
60-66% might be best for ordinary legislation, 75-80% for Constitutional Amendments.
Simple budgetary measures with no other issues tacked on should probably be something like 55%

The states could probably do with the current thresholds.
(this all assumes a new start with a clean slate, as it is if we ever get in power we need to eliminate the filibuster to facilitate rapid repeals of many years worth of tyrannical laws)

You have to remember that the enemy would be just as happy to collapse the system through an inability to get normal business done and then impose tyranny in the wake.
That is what they tried to do with the Articles of Confederation followed by the Constitution without the BoR.
It WAS true that the original government under the AoC was too weak and ineffectual and need to be improved, that is why the states and the people accepted the Constitution even though the Convention exceeded its authority, had the Anti Federalists not held out for the BoR we would be in MUCH worse trouble by now.

 

[Occam's Banana]

https://twitter.com/wrong_speak/status/1483431977516736513

Fixed:

The Soviets knew how to deal with right-wing any threats to "democracy" bad followers:

https://twitter.com/CasuallyGreg/status/1482378964781785096

 

[nobody's_hero]

The greatest fault of our founders was not setting very high majority requirements for passing of legislation. Forget super majority. They should have set it at 80 percent to pass new legislation.

As a society, it needs to be consensus, not the dictates of a bare majority. The push in Senate to eliminate 60% and filibuster requirements is direct evidence of their desire to subject and force things on a greater and greater proportion of society.

Anything without an 80% or greater consensus should not be engaged in by government.

It probably helped that at the time of the founders, only about a quarter of the population could vote, and the requirements to do so were pretty strict.

 

[Occam's Banana]

"It's only democracy when my side is succeeding."

https://twitter.com/MaxBoot/status/1483475784840921090

 

[Anti Federalist]

https://twitter.com/MaxBoot/status/1483475784840921090

Rhetorical question, but, what does this Marxist filth think democrazy is, but voting for who you want to represent you?

 

[acptulsa]

Rhetorical question, but, what does this Marxist filth think democrazy is, but voting for who you want to represent you?

You just described representative democracy, a republic. They know what democracy is, politician and protestor alike. It's mob rule, and they love it. When they have control of it.

 

[A Son of Liberty]

I've always found it so wonderfully appropriate that the name Max Boot sounds so fittingly like the name of a U-Boat commander.

 

[Anti Federalist]

I've always found it so wonderfully appropriate that the name Max Boot sounds so fittingly like the name of a U-Boat commander.

I thought it was a computer command...

C:/ goto MAX BOOT

 

[Occam's Banana]

Rhetorical question, but, what does this Marxist filth think democrazy is, but voting for who you want to represent you?

https://twitter.com/ManDaveJobGood/status/1483858868903944192