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Author: Lapsody 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: AlitoThen / Alito Now
Date: 04/23/2023 11:18 PM
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"Apparently you are forgetting it is the Democrats who clamor to eliminate the Electoral College, or to create a couple new Blue states, or pack the Supreme Court. Not saying the Republicans are entirely innocent but neither are sanctimonious Democrats."

You forgot you packed the Supreme court by gaming the system? You forget your gerrymandering, voter suppression, voter requirements that hinder voting? A basic tenet of Republicans is they are better off the fewer people that vote, and sometimes speak this quiet part out loud. I'm one who lives with the electoral system and tell people I have never known advantages such as that to be given up unless they think it's advantageous, so it isn't going away during our lifetimes. It means the Pres doesn't win by the popular vote 12-15% of the time. I live with that. Gerry in gerrymandering was one of thew founding fathers, so it's been going on for a long time. If we legislate against it, it gets diluted and ruled against and comes back. We need amendments, but those can be "interpreted", etc., so as a result I question if we are a representative democracy. It's very clear, in spite of Dope, that many of the Republicans think it's OK to trash the system as long as it means they win. We have a system that depends on norms, etc., and it's very vulnerable it appears.
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