IMHO, one of the reasons there has been so much emphasis on judicial precedent in the past is because there is a lot of ad hocrity in how it works. For example, political parties/factions have no official standing and yet they have been able control the internal rules of the houses of Congress. Similarly, the electors sent by states to validate the presidential returns are selected by state party conventions from whoever chooses to be an active member. And states recognize candidates endorsed by parties on the basis of the party getting a percentage of the vote in prior elections. So, for example, the Libertarians in Georgia who have candidates for every major office managed to get their candidate for governor included in a debate. Never mind that the Libertarian votes decided the Presidential and Senate elections in 2020 because the state requires more one more than 50% to declare a winner. Perdue got many more votes than Ossoff in November, but less than 50% and then, in January, Republicans stayed home. Perdue, btw, got more votes than Trump. 20,000 Republicans declined to vote for president.
We are making progress. It is very difficult to know what is going on because the press and the politicos are invested in their old way of doing thngs. Our county has put a special tax on the ballot. The paper and the chamber support it, but I am hearing that right wing radio has lots of ads against it. It should be opposed. The County is sitting on thirty million that it has not spent in a decade. Georgia had the most bank failures of any state after 2008. Georgia is where the Federal Reserve was invented to let banks have first dibs on dollars. It's all finance and no trickle down. Atlanta is progressive, but the rest of the state is not yet woke.
Thanks for your perspective. I do hope the tax doesn't pass, and that the fact that the press and pundits really don't know what is currently happening will mean the Dems do better than expected.
Y’know, I find I have a visceral negative reaction to the word “woke” being used as an adjective. It always comes across to me the way right wingers use it as a derogatory term. Does anyone else get that feeling too? Might just be me.
All I can figure out is that "woke" is some sort of right-wing bugaboo. I should be surprised if the people who use the term can define it. Do they want people to be asleep, so they can get away with more hanky-panky?
How the Republican Fringe Became the Mainstream [Click] “ Conspiracy theorists and far-right fanatics have long been present in the GOP. Now, they’re running it.” I think one could reasonably substitute “John Birch Society” for “Republican Fringe.”
IMHO, Democracy was OK as long as it meant an elite faction was in charge and women in particular, knew their place. The civil rights legislation was supposed to be about black people voting, not women getting economic autonomy, public access to public information, public insistence on financial reports, public participation on money distributing boards and young people making their own decisions. Now the old order is being challenged and both the press and the factions are discovering they have no legitimacy and no power. You know, the internet was developed by the DOD and it escaped into the public. Now the DOD is looking to develop a more "secure" communications system 'cause without secrecy there is no power. Trump and Barr suborned the DOJ.because it is the only entity that enjoys absolute immunity. Nobody supervises or reviews prosecutors because they were supposed to be, like the electoral college, passive transmitters of information. Instead, they have taken over both investigation and plea bargaining. 200 people have had to be freed from death row because they were innocent. People with lesser sentences do not get reviewed. As the Obama DOJ said to SCOTUS in oral arguments, "there is no right not to be framed by a prosecutor." Part of the problem is the firm belief that one man's punishment deters another man's crime. That is why Republicans want people locked up on charges, regardless of whether they are guilty. On the other hand, prosecutors intent on maintaining their autonomous situation are particularly vulnerable to people who plead guilty on lesser charged to get back on the street sooner. The DOJ is super proud that they have a 98% guilty judgement or plea. It supports their argument that they should continue independent. But, legislation to rein them in is in the works just waiting for more Democrats in the Senate.
Our little Trick & Treat ended at 8 p.m. We did get a surprising number of children in spite of the fairly steady rain, but I still have more than enough to make the food pantry very happy.
Wouldyoubelieve, here in NW Vermont we had 60ºF on Hallowe'en night?! It's almost always icy cold and precipitating rain and or snow. Even so, we didn't get any trick or treaters, except for the three next door neighbour kids, we specially invited over. THAT was fun! We used to see them a lot before Covid. And wow have they grown!! Now 16, 14 and 11. To think, I used to pick up the youngest from first grade.
We dropped off our ballots on Sunday, in the ballot box outside the Town Clerk's office.
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IMHO, one of the reasons there has been so much emphasis on judicial precedent in the past is because there is a lot of ad hocrity in how it works. For example, political parties/factions have no official standing and yet they have been able control the internal rules of the houses of Congress. Similarly, the electors sent by states to validate the presidential returns are selected by state party conventions from whoever chooses to be an active member. And states recognize candidates endorsed by parties on the basis of the party getting a percentage of the vote in prior elections. So, for example, the Libertarians in Georgia who have candidates for every major office managed to get their candidate for governor included in a debate. Never mind that the Libertarian votes decided the Presidential and Senate elections in 2020 because the state requires more one more than 50% to declare a winner. Perdue got many more votes than Ossoff in November, but less than 50% and then, in January, Republicans stayed home. Perdue, btw, got more votes than Trump. 20,000 Republicans declined to vote for president.
DeleteHow do you see that dynamic impacting the election this time?
DeleteWe are making progress. It is very difficult to know what is going on because the press and the politicos are invested in their old way of doing thngs.
DeleteOur county has put a special tax on the ballot. The paper and the chamber support it, but I am hearing that right wing radio has lots of ads against it. It should be opposed. The County is sitting on thirty million that it has not spent in a decade.
Georgia had the most bank failures of any state after 2008. Georgia is where the Federal Reserve was invented to let banks have first dibs on dollars. It's all finance and no trickle down. Atlanta is progressive, but the rest of the state is not yet woke.
Thanks for your perspective. I do hope the tax doesn't pass, and that the fact that the press and pundits really don't know what is currently happening will mean the Dems do better than expected.
DeleteY’know, I find I have a visceral negative reaction to the word “woke” being used as an adjective. It always comes across to me the way right wingers use it as a derogatory term. Does anyone else get that feeling too? Might just be me.
I honestly don't know what the term "woke" is supposed to mean in this context. And because I don't know what it means, I don't like it.
DeleteAll I can figure out is that "woke" is some sort of right-wing bugaboo. I should be surprised if the people who use the term can define it. Do they want people to be asleep, so they can get away with more hanky-panky?
Delete"Woke" doesn't even make sense as a neologism, at least to me.
DeleteBeing woke means you're smart enough not to attack your own country's Capitol.
DeleteSweet whimsical story...
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How the Republican Fringe Became the Mainstream [Click] “
Conspiracy theorists and far-right fanatics have long been present in the GOP. Now, they’re running it.” I think one could reasonably substitute “John Birch Society” for “Republican Fringe.”
IMHO, Democracy was OK as long as it meant an elite faction was in charge and women in particular, knew their place. The civil rights legislation was supposed to be about black people voting, not women getting economic autonomy, public access to public information, public insistence on financial reports, public participation on money distributing boards and young people making their own decisions.
DeleteNow the old order is being challenged and both the press and the factions are discovering they have no legitimacy and no power.
You know, the internet was developed by the DOD and it escaped into the public. Now the DOD is looking to develop a more "secure" communications system 'cause without secrecy there is no power.
Trump and Barr suborned the DOJ.because it is the only entity that enjoys absolute immunity. Nobody supervises or reviews prosecutors because they were supposed to be, like the electoral college, passive transmitters of information. Instead, they have taken over both investigation and plea bargaining. 200 people have had to be freed from death row because they were innocent. People with lesser sentences do not get reviewed. As the Obama DOJ said to SCOTUS in oral arguments, "there is no right not to be framed by a prosecutor."
Part of the problem is the firm belief that one man's punishment deters another man's crime. That is why Republicans want people locked up on charges, regardless of whether they are guilty. On the other hand, prosecutors intent on maintaining their autonomous situation are particularly vulnerable to people who plead guilty on lesser charged to get back on the street sooner. The DOJ is super proud that they have a 98% guilty judgement or plea. It supports their argument that they should continue independent. But, legislation to rein them in is in the works just waiting for more Democrats in the Senate.
Our little Trick & Treat ended at 8 p.m. We did get a surprising number of children in spite of the fairly steady rain, but I still have more than enough to make the food pantry very happy.
ReplyDeleteGood for you, Susan.
DeleteWouldyoubelieve, here in NW Vermont we had 60ºF on Hallowe'en night?! It's almost always icy cold and precipitating rain and or snow. Even so, we didn't get any trick or treaters, except for the three next door neighbour kids, we specially invited over. THAT was fun! We used to see them a lot before Covid. And wow have they grown!! Now 16, 14 and 11. To think, I used to pick up the youngest from first grade.
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ReplyDeleteWhat Don Jr said about the attack on Paul Pelosi is the lowest low of all
ReplyDeleteJust wait--lower than that will come, if it hasn't yet.
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