@farmerman,
Quote:well, Biden can do whaat several others (mostly GOP) pres have done. "Veto anything thats not bipartisan"
"holding the Senate is a bit different from having your way.
Under normal circumstances, that is possibly viable. But in a collapsed economy and raging pandemic and a robust and widespread GOP propaganda network, the downsides will fall to the Biden administration.
Even with
everything that has gone on, the GOP has
- maintained its no-nothing, constantly aggrieved base
- encouraged and directed that base to increasingly behave as a brownshirt force
- built a 6-3 SC majority of deeply radical members that will last a generation and which will continue to come down with rulings which will further heave America further in the direction of oligarchical rule and marginalization of citizen democracy
And what is to stop this? The modern information ecosystem obviously has not done so. Republican moderates have been almost entirely been shunted aside and the level of ethics of those who remain is comparable now to those in any broken and corrupted authoritarian state.
I think America is fucked. I think this was the last chance of saving it.