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Where I take exception is with the voting law changes. They were changed and for no reason except what some pols feared could happen. The fact was that in 2020 Iowa had one of its most successful voting turn outs, with damn neR ZERO violations reported, yet the Legislature decided to make more restrictive “off site” voting regulations...Non of these changes have done anything to make voting off site, safer. They have made off site voting more confusing by reducing off site locations and greatly shortening the voting window. And yes, I do believe the SC is wrong by deciding to hear state challenges to the Voting Rights 1965 law. That law corrected voting injustices and now the SC has decided irs protections are no longer warranted and represent a hardship on the state’s...that originally violated citizens right to vote. It’s a bad idea because folks whose voting rights might be abridged down the line will have to revile, rehear and retry their cases in Federal Court, so they can vote.
First words that came to my mind when I think of MTG and Boebert.
I think voting access is critical. But, my impression is some dems wish to be able to walk into a nursing home and “help” the residents who barely know their name fill out ballots so they can deliver them to team blue. Or, go to inner city areas and walk door to door, or sidewalk to sidewalk and “help” the residents fill out ballots and deliver them to team blue. I think it is a perfectly reasonable position to expect the vast majority of people to vote in person and to have limited mail in balloting. In the time piece I linked in an earlier thread, the Dems bragged about mailing a ballot to everyone in various communities. I don’t care if fraud wasn’t proven. It wasn’t disproven. And that system is not secure. More importantly, it’s getting more low information voters to vote. And, that’s not a positive. Equal opportunity to vote, yes. Hand holding of people who have no interest, no.
Nope. They’re a far left party in a center left country that is drifting leftward fast with the current admin.
We are a world exporter of woke bs. We are left.
Prove it. Your statement is utterly false and needs to be called out. Look at the rest of the world and get out of your little bubble. Go talk to others in another country and I guarantee you the vast majority say the US is far right and that the Democrats in the US are right leaning. I'm sick and tired of Republicans saying anyone who doesn't deny election results are Marxists. Get your head out of the sand
It’s a horseshoe issue. I see myself as a classical liberal. That should be left wing. But, today, it’s not. Left proposes more and more central control. That authoritarian/freedom continuum to me defines left versus right. The more authoritarian the more leftwing the country.
So you have no clue got it. Now I know to just completely ignore everything you say
A lot of those voting law changes are just taking things back to the way it was before covid. Others are less restrictive than California and New York. The voting rights bs was fake outrage by the left and they would never admit the truth.
Lol. If you say so. https://reason.com/2022/09/13/the-authoritarian-convergence/ what I’m saying isnt new. its central to f Hayek’s argument ww2 era. You have authoritarians on the left and right. What I’m saying is today the authoritarian issue is the primary defining feature of importance. And, today, the left has shifted from an individual freedoms party hard to a conformist authoritarian party. There’s no relevant right or left distinction in my opinion to Soviet Russia or Nazi Germany. Once you get the full on authoritarian treatment, freedom is gone. The left holds all the branches, that’s dangerous. It’s dangerous when the right does too. We need checks and balances. It’s why I tend to be relieved in elections where control is split I prefer Gridlock.
Where did this happen?
No DooBi, that is not what is happening here. But, I am not going to argue with you about it here and now.
What a load of bullshit. Now you're complaining about just telling people they can vote absentee. JFC.
What’s happening here is the left was able to change voting rules under the guise of emergency. They liked the results and want to make those changes permanent and you’re a racist engaging in voter suppression if you don’t agree that little ms blue hair can go to inner city Detroit and go pick up mailed out ballots from whomever.
I think, because of the news cycles and silos that both right and left side of the aisle types perceive that the other party is driven by their extremes. To some extent, I suppose that both are correct. I don’t agree that the left remains center left for the reasons articulated in Sullivan’s article. I am troubled that people like MTG represent us. I am also troubled that we have reps like Ilhan Omar who might as well be representing our enemies. There’s plenty of crazy elected to office on both sides.
I’m complaining about encouraging mail in voting and making ballots to people in non special circumstances. I’m also complaining about mailing ballots to people who didn’t request them. I’m complaining about ballot harvesting. I’m complaining about bussing people to vote with incentivizes. Etc.
The electoral college needs to go away and maybe a third party would have a chance in the White House. A fiscally conservative socially progressive candidate would do very well an election that wasn’t controlled by the extremes in the nomination.
Not the current version of socially progressive. Early 2000s/90s version, yes. I agree. The current version of dei is a problem and the gender stuff is obnoxious.
You were complaining about informing people of absentee voting. Most of you far right wingers want to abolish absentee voting and make it only on election day at the polls. The reason? Not to have secure voting but as another effort to secure power for the republican party. Absentee voting has been going on for decades without significant incident but a bunch of you bought into Trump's lies and now see this as an opportunity to produce lower voter turnout which helps the right wing cause. You should be complaining about these attempts rather than non-existent issues that your propaganda spews.
What do you consider to be the policies or platforms embraced by the majority of Democrats that are "far left"?
Republicans in Florida have encouraged mail in ballots for decades and have been damn successful at utilizing it. It’s only been since orange man couldn’t accept defeat that my party has started crying over it.
