Right turn on red is the greatest contribution to civilisation to come out of the USA. Too bad we don't have the equivalent here. But we do have hook turns, so there's that.
Right turn on red is the greatest contribution to civilisation to come out of the USA. Too bad we don't have the equivalent here. But we do have hook turns, so there's that.
It's fun scrolling back through this topic to more than a decade ago, when there was some political talk, yes, but not as vehement or angry as now. Maybe, as they say, the change starts with yourself? Let's leave the GOP/Dem/Green hate in those forums and keep this one pleasant?
It's fun scrolling back through this topic to more than a decade ago, when there was some political talk, yes, but not as vehement or angry as now. Maybe, as they say, the change starts with yourself? Let's leave the GOP/Dem/Green hate in those forums and keep this one pleasant?
It's fun scrolling back through this topic to more than a decade ago, when there was some political talk, yes, but not as vehement or angry as now. Maybe, as they say, the change starts with yourself? Let's leave the GOP/Dem/Green hate in those forums and keep this one pleasant?
It's fun scrolling back through this topic to more than a decade ago, when there was some political talk, yes, but not as vehement or angry as now. Maybe, as they say, the change starts with yourself? Let's leave the GOP/Dem/Green hate in those forums and keep this one pleasant?
Democracy â meaning equal representation of all citizens and, crucially, majority rule â has, in fact, become the enemy of the contemporary Republican Party. As The Washington Post noted on Jan. 24, âThe last two Republicans to win a majority of the popular vote in a presidential contest were father and son: George H.W. Bush in 1988 and George W. Bush in 2004.â In the four elections since 2004, the Republican nominee has consistently lost the popular vote to the Democratic candidate, including Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020.
The widely publicized efforts by Republican-controlled state legislatures to politicize election administration and to disenfranchise Democrats through gerrymandering and restrictive voting laws testify to the determination of Republicans â especially the 66 percent who say they believe that the 2020 election was stolen â to wrest control of election machinery. On Sept. 2, ProPublica documented a national movement to take over the Republican Party at the grass roots level in âElection Deniers Organize to Seize Control of the G.O.P. â and Reshape Americaâs Elections.â
These developments, taken together, are amplifying alarms about the viability of contemporary democracy in America.
Political analysts, scholars and close observers of government are explicitly raising the possibility that the polarized American electoral system has come to the point at which a return to traditional democratic norms will be extremely difficult, if not impossible.
