The American Right, which controls the White House and the Senate now but not the House, have abused their majority power. Yesterday, as everyone knows, a mere week before the presidential election - one which polling suggests they are going to lose and lose badly - they rush-approved a new Supreme Court justice to the bench. This after four years ago, the same Senators maintained that 10 months before an election was "too soon" to even hold hearings on another SCOTUS appointee. Ten months is "too soon" for the other side, one week is perfectly acceptable for their side. Hypocrites. They are going to lose their re-election races, but that should be the least of their worries.
And the SCOTUS nomination was only the most recent of their abuses of power. Pick up a newspaper and read if you need more examples.
But very soon now, the White House, Congress, and probably the Senate will be in Democratic hands. If the Democrats don't swing back and swing back hard with the same kind of power politics to undo the grabs of the current Republican majority, it will in effect legitimize the Right's actions. The Republicans have tilted the pendulum so far to the right, that the inevitable swing back in the opposite direction should be devastating to them.
Doing what they did right before an election that promises a transfer of power wasn't very strategic for the Right. It's like poking someone in the eye right before you hand them a billy-club.
Pack the Supreme Court? Absolutely! Appoint five, seven, nine new justices with Far Left sympathies to the Supreme Court. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex to the bench! Sounds good! Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib too, for that matter.
Abolish the Electoral College? Long overdue. That undemocratic remnant of slavery politics has twice resulted in the loser of the popular vote winning the Presidency in the last 20 years.
And why stop there? Reinstate Obama Care in full. Amend the Constitution with access-to-abortion.rights. And regulate and register guns, and confiscate them from those in violation of the regulation and registration.
Why are there two Dakotas? Why do a bunch of prairie farmers have twice as many Senators and Electoral votes, and more representation in Congress, than the entire state of California, including LA and San Francisco? Re-allot representation in the House and Senate to more democratically represent the population and if the Right don't like it, tell them to go talk about it to Amy Coney Barrett, one of the five conservative Justices on the new, 15-member Supreme Court.
It's time to be ruthless (now that Ruth is gone) and to play hardball. It's time to give the Right a taste of their own medicine, and let the chips fall where they may. They brought this down on themselves, and deserve what they get.
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