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Linda MacDonald's avatar

The UK and now France. Poland pulled the plug on the PiS Party. The Fascists never quit and like Bitterroot are hard to pull out of the ground. Who knows? With more Americans getting a look at the "heritage foundation" project 2025 the stakes for our election become clearer every day. Now. What everyone needs is for the democrats to stop running around like chickens with their heads cut off. Worse than that, shooting off their mouths before engaging their brains. The focus must be defeating the gop from the top of the ballot to the bottom...in every state, not just the 5-7 that figure so prominently in that colossal anti-democracy "college called electoral". We must turn out millions of voters. One reason LePen's Party came in 3rd was the huge turnout, the highest in 40 years! In this election there must be a huge turnout for democracy. Then we must keep turning out to hold every elected person accountable to and for democracy and democratic institutions.

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TCinLA's avatar

The problem "Democrats" are all from the corporate/DINO wing of the party.

Quelle Surprise.

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Linda MacDonald's avatar

I call them corporatist.Whitmer is that type although she and the small majorities in both houses of the legislature have done a pretty decent job correcting what almost 40 years of gop legislative control had done to the state. It took a huge turnout two years ago and our new voting districts adopted by an independent commission. When Whitmer served in the state senate she was 14 years in the minority.

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Judith Matlock's avatar

I see the corporatist wing of the Dems as the group that can make it "comfortable and almost acceptable" for centrists and some old school Republicans to hew left. They are necessary even though their influence is out of proportion with their virtue. As for Whitmer, she's calmed things down and de-Englerized MI. (She has great lieutenants in Nessel, AG, and Benson, SOS.) The DeVoses have been driven underground for now, but Erik Prince, Betsy's bro, a snake in the grass, is active with the burn-it-all-down 2025ers.

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Linda MacDonald's avatar

Indeed. I agree. She has a good team around her. Benson could be a solid governor. My concern is to keep and if possible grow the democratic majority in the legislature.

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Judith Matlock's avatar

Legislature and the courts.

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Karen Hall's avatar

Brava!

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