Soon the USA will be mostly Blue, and that will never change again

[Earl]

The Republican Party has packed our federal courts with unqualified, partisan judges who consistently rule for corporations, the wealthy, and Republican interests.

They have undermined the legitimacy of our courts through an anti-democratic, win-at-all costs campaign that includes blocking a Democratic president from appointing a justice to the Supreme Court and obstructing dozens of diverse lower-court nominees.

The Democratic Party recognizes the need for structural court reforms to increase transparency and accountability.

Wrong, you will not be allowed to pack the Supreme Court.

Name the “unqualified, partisan judges,” PoliTalker.

[archives]

Republican gerrymandering distorts our democracy, and Democrats will enact measures to end their partisan gerrymandering in federal elections.

We will protect the integrity of the decennial Census from political interference, including ensuring that apportionment and redistricting be based on total population counts.

Democrats will maintain the legal requirement for Census participation and increase resources to reduce undercounts of communities of color, undocumented immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, people with disabilities, rural and low-income populations, and young children.

We will also direct the Census Bureau to study whether counting the prison population where they are incarcerated creates inequitable outcomes in state or federal representation or funding allocations.

Democrats can’t do anything about GOP gerrymandering if the GOP controls the State Legislatives, and as we have seen, the Courts are reluctant to take up gerrymandering cases.

It being a census year makes it all the more relevant, because now all the State and Local districts are redrawn, the GOP has only maintained a strong presence in the House because of the controlled districts and now they will be set for another decade

I don’t like it anymore than you do, but it is the reality, the Democrats blew it this year, and consequently the nation ain’t going blue anytime soon

[The Biden Administration]

Now more than ever, federal agencies need experts on staff who know how to use science, evidence, data, and facts to guide decision-making on behalf of the American people.

As the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates, our country needs the best experts working within government to protect and improve the lives of all Americans.

Democrats support the recruitment of people with expertise in science, social science, technology, and innovation to jobs in public service to help solve our nation’s most pressing challenges.

To ensure that federal funds are invested as effectively and efficiently as possible, the federal government should be using the best available evidence when making budget and spending decisions.

Democrats will ensure federal data collection and analysis is adequately funded and designed to allow for disaggregation by race, gender, LGBTQ+ status, immigration status, geography, disability status, and other important variables, so that disparities can be better understood and addressed.

Democrats support the widespread use of strategies to promote evidence-based policy-making, including more robust evaluations of tax expenditures and allocating funds for program evaluation, to help ensure the American people are receiving the most productive, efficient services from our federal government.

[The Biden Administration]

Democrats can’t do anything about GOP gerrymandering if the GOP controls the State Legislatives, and as we have seen, the Courts are reluctant to take up gerrymandering cases.

It being a census year makes it all the more relevant, because now all the State and Local districts are redrawn, the GOP has only maintained a strong presence in the House because of the controlled districts and now they will be set for another decade

I don’t like it anymore than you do, but it is the reality, the Democrats blew it this year, and consequently the nation ain’t going blue anytime soon

The corona virus crisis has given us the opportunity to do many things we could not do before.

We will enact measures to end their partisan gerrymandering in federal elections.

Democrats will maintain the legal requirement for Census participation and increase resources to reduce undercounts of communities of color, undocumented immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, people with disabilities, rural and low-income populations, and young children.

We will also direct the Census Bureau to study whether counting the prison population where they are incarcerated creates inequitable outcomes in state or federal representation or funding allocations.

[Eagle_Eye]

In your wildest dreams. You really should avoid the cheap drugs and booze, it gives you hallucinations. LOL

[archives]

The corona virus crisis has given us the opportunity to do many things we could not do before.

We will enact measures to end their partisan gerrymandering in federal elections.

Democrats will maintain the legal requirement for Census participation and increase resources to reduce undercounts of communities of color, undocumented immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, people with disabilities, rural and low-income populations, and young children.

We will also direct the Census Bureau to study whether counting the prison population where they are incarcerated creates inequitable outcomes in state or federal representation or funding allocations.

Regardless of what you see the Democrats doing, they can do nothing regarding gerrymandering, it is a State issue, and Democrats don’t have power in the majority of States.

And regardless of who or what the census counts, when it is all said and done, the census numbers go to the State Legislatures to draw up the Congressional districts for the next ten years, and this is why the Democrats didn’t win in 2020 and why the nation will not turn blue

You may not like it, or want to admit it, but it is the reality

[Port Tack]

Never heard that claim made before...

I heard John McCain say it. It was more like by 2050 whites will be the minority in this country. Latino as well as blacks have much higher birth rates so if the republicans cannot convince them that they aren't predominately racist against them, they will go the way of the dinosaur. We won't have to get half way to 2050 before republicans won't be able to win a national election. 8 yrs of Biden and 8 yrs of Harris and we are there.

[katzgar]

Vote by mail is rife with fraud regardless of who's running for office or what party they're in.

you are a liar

[Port Tack]

That's true only if its the blue states who retain the name "USA" for their new, partitioned nation.
Since Confederate States of America didn't work out the last time, I always assumed it would be the blue states to try a new name this time.

Whatever name New England / New York uses for our new nation, we'll be the dominant force in the EU in no time.

That sounds ludicrous but I wouldn't laugh, the hatred between the 2 parties is pretty fierce and I don't see anything stopping it. Question is the east and west coast would have to remain the USA while the middle would become the RSA (racist states of America).

[Port Tack]

Another horse mierda thread by the phony “Biden Transition Team.”

Count the Democrat House seats lost and the Republican State House gains.

This presidential election is still in dispute.

At least we know the shithead lost and we will have a democrat in the white house

[Micawber]

That sounds ludicrous but I wouldn't laugh, the hatred between the 2 parties is pretty fierce and I don't see anything stopping it. Question is the east and west coast would have to remain the USA while the middle would become the RSA (racist states of America).

They caused all of it, and still are. They need to apologize, kneel and beg. Otherwise eat shit. It's war. We are going General Sherman does Georgia on their Trumptarded asses from here on
UNTIL THEY KNOW THEIR PLACES.

[Port Tack]

So, you are admitting that vote-by-mail is rife with fraud and other issues? Amazing!

Nope but it sure will make one hell of a lot of democrats vote that otherwise would not. Vote by mail is here to stay and no republican will ever change that. If that bothers you I suggest you eat shit, nobody fucking cares.

[cawacko]

I heard John McCain say it. It was more like by 2050 whites will be the minority in this country. Latino as well as blacks have much higher birth rates so if the republicans cannot convince them that they aren't predominately racist against them, they will go the way of the dinosaur. We won't have to get half way to 2050 before republicans won't be able to win a national election. 8 yrs of Biden and 8 yrs of Harris and we are there.

I was being facetious. Democrats have made the claim for decades.

[Micawber]

Nope but it sure will make one hell of a lot of democrats vote that otherwise would not. Vote by mail is here to stay and no republican will ever change that. If that bothers you I suggest you eat shit, nobody fucking cares.

Post of the day

[The Biden Administration]

Democrats can’t do anything about GOP gerrymandering if the GOP controls the State Legislatives, and as we have seen, the Courts are reluctant to take up gerrymandering cases.

It being a census year makes it all the more relevant, because now all the State and Local districts are redrawn, the GOP has only maintained a strong presence in the House because of the controlled districts and now they will be set for another decade

I don’t like it anymore than you do, but it is the reality, the Democrats blew it this year, and consequently the nation ain’t going blue anytime soon

Wait and see.

Congress can stop gerrymandering.

The House can prevent what the Supreme Court wouldn’t.

Speaker Pelosi can refuse to seat a state delegation achieved through gerrymandering.

She has that power.

Article I, Section 5 of the Constitution says that “each House shall be the judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members.”

This authority has rarely been used to exclude individuals chosen under dubious electoral circumstances, but it has potential.

The power does not require statutory action involving the Senate or executive branch.

The House, acting on its own, can design a process that eliminates the egregious, anti-democratic distortions produced by Republican gerrymandering.

Speaker Pelosi can reject such delegations as failing to meet the qualifications for service.

The constitutional underpinning for this approach is sound.

James Madison’s reports on the Constitutional Convention make clear the framers’ distinction between the election of senators, who before 1913 were chosen by state legislatures, and the election of representatives by “the People of the several States.”

States are the constitutional units of the federal union; political districts within states are drawn to tether individual officeholders to geographic sets of people.

In the republic’s early decades, congressional delegations were elected on a statewide basis, confirming that the statewide electorate is the basic constitutional constituency.

Only after 1842 did Congress require states to conduct elections of single members in defined districts.

Unfortunately, the virtuous effort to tie representatives more closely to voters in specific areas gave state legislators the opportunity to shape districts with an eye to partisan advantage.