#DEMOCRACY

e_monk 🆘🌹

electrikmonk

1/ THREAD (updated): Why we don't need political parties.Or, why 2 is the wrong number of #PoliticalParties.A #Two-PartySystem is only one party away from being a dictatorship; only one party

Seattle Independent

SeattleIndpdnt

Lost within the confession of Time magazine of the coordinated efforts to overturn the election is this: getting that many people to act can only occur with an extensive system

Stonekettle

Stonekettle

Voter fraud in Detroit. Voter fraud in Georgia. Voter fraud in predominantly black districts. Voter fraud. I.e. black people voted. That's what he's saying. And don't tell me it's not.

Tim Wise

timjacobwise

1/ A few thoughts re: the increasingly accepted (and somewhat obvious) wisdom that "if the people who stormed the capitol had been Black they'd have been beaten or shot." This

AltYellowstoneNatPar

AltYelloNatPark

It's a simple matter of managementGet your cattle off our public landsTake your barbed wire fences and goStop drilling Stop spilling Stop letting psychos trophy hunt, trap torture or dictate

Wokal Distance

wokal_distance

1/See these screenshots? This is Cancel Culture.Cancel culture doesn't just attack free speech. Cancel culture attacks the very foundation of civilization and democracy itself and we need to understand it

Michelle Meagher 🙋🏾‍♀️

MichMeagher

1/ Me on skynews. The Facebook case is historic, and we're seeing regulators finally reach for the powers that they've always had to hold monopolies to account. But it's just

Chad Pergram

ChadPergram

A) Fox is increasingly hearing from lawmakers and staff who are apoplectic about the paucity of information about the insurrection at the Capitol Wednesday. B) Some are very upset at

Daniel I. Weiner

DanWeiner329

Yesterday’s #Acquittal of Fmr. President Trump (by senators representing barely 1/3 of the country) underscores the urgent need to repair American democracy, beginning with swift passage of the landmark #ForThePeopleAct

Thom Hartmann

Thom_Hartmann

1/ What most vividly shows the difference between Ron DeSantis and Xavier Becerra? The crusade, and then the failure of that crusade, to make America into a fully authoritarian nation,

Sarah Khan

_sarahkhan

Given BB’s death anniversary on Dec 27, and all kinds of recent spotlight on Maryam Nawaz, I’ve been thinking about the gendered nature of dynastic politics in PK, and the

Jennifer Mercieca

jenmercieca

Now seems like an opportune time to discuss something about history and government that's been on my mind lately (short thread).There is a "republican view" of history and a "liberal

Pam Keith, Esq.

PamKeithFL

Sad to say that Putin knew America better than we did.He knew that he could use our love of “free speech” as a mechanism to spread disinformation.He knew he could

Robert Farley

drfarls

Lotta GOPsters hoped that they could keep their heads down and get through the transition, apparently forgetting that outbidding is a thing. And hey, I can appreciate the true level

Samantha Pritchard

thucydiplease

2000 was the first time in the modern VRA era that the white vote lost to the total vote—and the white vote still triumphed through a coup. This was the

Sara Polak

Sara_Polak

When I call things like this “cartoon politics,” some people interpret that as meaning that I think it’s not to be taken seriously, or that I think Trump and his

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