“Name a force or impulse that threatens the stability of the American political system – distrust in the fairness of elections, conspiracy theorizing, the embrace of authoritarianism – and it is always more prevalent among rural Whites than among those living elsewhere."
~ Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman, White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy (New York: Random House, 2024), p. 5
@wdlindsy I think you need to study the constitution, my friend. The senate represents the states not the population. The House represents populations. This is simple, You are equating one with the other. You could make an inverse argument against the House for not representing the states correctly. One branch represents the population and the other the states.
"The threat of a white Christian authoritarian government is no longer abstract, it is upon us – but the corporate media remains tongue-tied on the subject.
Reproductive rights are the most obvious target of the extreme right. In the Dobbs decision, six extremist justices destroyed half a century of progress for women’s rights, health care, and justice."
The hope of democracy lives as we forge new online democracies all over the world wide web, with 100's of millions of people participating in small, democratically organized groups.
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