Michigan GOP: Autocratic for the People

Michigan GOP counts votes it doesn't have, because, you know, freedom or something.

4/6/2012
Yogisays...

>> ^TheGenk:

Republicans, preparing the USA for a dictatorship since (at least) 2001.


Eh Bullshit...all white men that owned land wish to control everything since the beginning...they just didn't want ONE white man that owned land to do it. The Republicans and Democrats are the same on this point...they control things, we vote in meaningless elections and remain the cowed hoard.

direpicklesays...

Don't fret, precious, I'm here.


NetRunnersays...

I guess I need to come up for a shorthand name for this. Let's call it the Democratic Flop theory.

Basically the idea behind this one is that the fascism the Republican party overtly wants and fights for is also secretly what the Democratic party wants. According to this theory, the reason they seem to lose to the right isn't because they're a diverse group of moderates who are trying in vain to strike reasonable compromises with a monolithic bloc of extremists bent on their destruction, it's because all appearance of dissent in the Capitol is a show, and their role is to placate the ~50% of the population that isn't already pro-fascist.

This is a theory that makes extraordinary claims, and requires some rather extraordinary evidence. Evidence you don't have.

How about another conspiracy theory? How about, the Democratic Flop theory is actually another tool the fascists are using to demoralize their opposition and further consolidate power? Ever consider that one?

If the Democratic Flop theory were right, why would the Republicans bother doing something so blatant as this? Why would the Democratic half of the show draw national attention to it? Why wouldn't they just quietly abolish the requirement with a single unanimous vote before the (ostensibly planned) radical crap like vote suppression and emergency manager law starts being fed into the legislative pipeline?

>> ^Yogi:

>> ^TheGenk:
Republicans, preparing the USA for a dictatorship since (at least) 2001.

Eh Bullshit...all white men that owned land wish to control everything since the beginning...they just didn't want ONE white man that owned land to do it. The Republicans and Democrats are the same on this point...they control things, we vote in meaningless elections and remain the cowed hoard.

Januarisays...

'Those people' have vowed to keep at bay the terrifying socialist, godless, commie, liberals that want to force your kids to wear condoms while they smoke weed. And the people that voted them in will happily fork over their civil liberties as long as they do.

NetRunnersays...

Yeah, seems to me like what's being done to Michigan in the US is what the EU government is trying to do to Greece.
>> ^hpqp:

>> ^LarsaruS:
Promote for awareness of the fall of democracy.

... in the US at least. Not that it's doing very well in Europe or elsewhere...

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