So, for starters Dems must actually do some good things: $2,000 stimulus checks, vaccine deployment,
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What do the Dems need to do on a policy front?
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1. Do or Do not. There is no try. - Yoda
For starters they need to get shit done. No more talking. Make people's lives better immediately.
Some claim there's no difference
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So, for starters Dems must actually do some good things: $2,000 stimulus checks, vaccine deployment,
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But HOW you might ask?
2. Think like the Turtle.
Dems get all caught up in process and policy and procedure. They think every legislative change needs 3
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McConnell has lobbyists write bills at 3 am and moves them through committee by noon. He can push dozens of
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We need to follow their strategy:
3. Flood the zone.
Basically, Pelosi, Biden, and Schumer should sit down and make a list of all the
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Then decide how it should be done- EO, executive orders, admin rule and then... wait for it...
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But Ned... you say... how will we get the 60 votes we need in
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In a democracy, anything that makes it harder to vote - in particular, anything that disadvantages one group of voters - should face an extremely high bar. Compulsory voter ID takes a hammer to 3 million legitimate voters (disproportionately poor & BAME) to crack an imaginary nut
If the government is concerned about the purity of elections, it should reflect on its own conduct. In 2019 it circulated doctored news footage of an opponent, disguised its twitter feed as a fake fact-checking site, and ran adverts so dishonest that even Facebook took them down.
Britain's electoral law largely predates the internet. There is little serious regulation of online campaigning or the cash that pays for it. That allows unscrupulous campaigners to ignore much of the legal framework erected since the C19th to guard against electoral misconduct.
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Millions of people do not have photo ID. By forcing through mandatory voter-ID the government risk disenfranchising millions of legitimate voters. https://t.co/y0Upzof2FI
— Electoral Reform Society (@electoralreform) February 17, 2021
There is no evidence in-person voter fraud is a problem, and it wd be near-impossible to organise on an effective scale. Campaign finance violations, digital disinformation & manipulation of postal voting are bigger issues, but these are crimes of the powerful, not the powerless.
In a democracy, anything that makes it harder to vote - in particular, anything that disadvantages one group of voters - should face an extremely high bar. Compulsory voter ID takes a hammer to 3 million legitimate voters (disproportionately poor & BAME) to crack an imaginary nut
If the government is concerned about the purity of elections, it should reflect on its own conduct. In 2019 it circulated doctored news footage of an opponent, disguised its twitter feed as a fake fact-checking site, and ran adverts so dishonest that even Facebook took them down.
Britain's electoral law largely predates the internet. There is little serious regulation of online campaigning or the cash that pays for it. That allows unscrupulous campaigners to ignore much of the legal framework erected since the C19th to guard against electoral misconduct.
