The GOP seem to have given up on Democracy - the sacred principle of 1 person 1 vote

[samsingh]

they now completely seem to have given up on American Democracy and have resorted to corrupting the Democratic system by vote rigging, lying, using propaganda like Fox News, being traitors and getting help from foreign adversaries. History has shown that other Democratic countries have failed and given way to authoritarian regimes. I believe the repugs want to take us down that direction.

[FakeNoose]

1. Yes they've tipped their hand and shown us all their cards

Now we Democrats and progressives know that we can never allow them lead this country again.

[tanyev]

2. All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

[packman]

10. Animal Farm- great book-good reference

The Repukes should switch from that elephant to a pig

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[dlk]

3. Sadly, this has been evident for some time

I believe it has its roots in white, male supremacy.

[Hugin]

4. Somehow, they've misunderstood the principle...

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To them it's one person gets one vote. The rest of us uppity help need to sit down and shut up.

[lastlib]

20. They understood it, but mis-apply it......

to them some of the "people" are still three-fifths of a "man," and half of us aren't men at all. They are still stuck in the 1840s America. Oh, and them "Injun" folks.......

[multigraincracker]

5. Both Authoritarian and Radical Free Market governments are not

compatible with Democracy.

[Hortensis]

6. Even more to the point, they're actively working to take permanent control.

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What would happen then, though? They're scarcely in control of themselves and what's happening as their mobs grow crazier and crazier.

Trump would have instituted a strongman dictatorship, supported by the mobs and, more dependably, by RW power blocs, such as wealthy kleptocrats/oligarchs.

Another form that's proven more resilient in former liberal democracies, though, is what's being called a competitive authoritarian regime:

"a type of civilian regime that arose in the post-Cold War era. In a competitive authoritarian regime, "formal democratic institutions exist and are widely viewed as the primary means of gaining power, but ... incumbents' abuse of the state places them at a significant advantage vis-à-vis their opponents."

Of course if the Republicans and their power blocs went this way, they would transform us from our liberal democracy to an IL-liberal democracy. They began their takeover long before Trump and began corrupting our institutions, expanding the powers of the presidency, and packing the courts with their agents in the 1980s-1990s, accelerating greatly in this century.

"An IL-liberal democracy, or procedural democracy, is distinguished from liberal democracy, or substantive democracy, in that illiberal democracies lack features such as the rule of law, protections for minority groups, an independent judiciary and the real separation of power."

There are a lot of other forms and subforms of autocratic government, including extremes like fascism or totalitarianism based on ideology (usually left wing univeralist).

[jaxexpat]

7. I believe you're onto something there, samsingh.

Did you used to date a gal they called Delilah, back in the day?

[samsingh]

21. ha ha

[paleotn]

8. It's turned against them at the ballot box, but more importantly...

there's limited money in it. Fascism is far more lucrative, if you're the tribe on top.

[johnthewoodworker]

9. Republican/Nazis can't let liberals and POC vote. Democracy violates their hatred.

[Politicub]

11. "Are you now or have ever been disloyal to Trump?"

That will be the new Star Chamber’s question.

[ancianita]

12. They started down that road with Gingrich, DeLay, Rove and Citizens United.

Ended up with pendejo45's mafia, that left in rubble the functioning structures of all experts, professionals and good, committed Americans. Watched him treat the world's leading epidemiologist like a dog and we knew the country would be a wasteland after four more years.

The GOP is a NeoFascist wasteland because they've always bought into power over country.

[MrModerate]

13. Certain uppity people aren't fit to vote, in Republican eyes. n/t

[ancianita]

14. And they don't believe in equality.

[KPN]

15. Seem to? nt

[Mad Kirrua]

16. Such has Never Existed in the USA

The Electoral College is merely one of the numerous examples of this.

[patphil]

17. I think their ultimate goal is a Putin style dictatorship.

[UCmeNdc]

18. K&R

True!

[USAFRetired_Liberal]

19. Their new go to line is

“We aren’t a Democracy, we are a Republic”.....as if we aren’t Democratic Republic