Post ATRdowLMXaIdf1q3zU by CJPaloma@universeodon.com
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 (DIR) Post #ATRK0ZpY4V6IEHEI1Q by dave@social.masto.land
       2023-03-09T12:55:03Z
       
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       A Startling Document Predicted Jan. 6. Democrats Are Missing Its Other Warnings.https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/03/09/document-predicted-jan-6-warnings-00086180?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication
       
 (DIR) Post #ATROe0og4WKX2EsjL6 by KenSmith@social.masto.land
       2023-03-09T13:46:59Z
       
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       @dave It's hard to know how to disrupt certain parts of the chicken-egg-chicken-egg process they have underway. In Indiana, they gerrymander themselves a supermajority in both chambers of the Statehouse. It still looks like a representative assembly, but you can't put pressure on it through voting. It still looks like voting, but the results are known ahead of time by party in most districts. The local papers have next to no reporters and are likely owned by distant asset-stripping corporations. Democratic institutions have become shells and façades, have been captured, processes meant to keep the system open have been closed. Where is the point in this corrupt system that is most vulnerable to sustained pressure, and how is that pressure to be created and sustained. Etc.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATRdowLMXaIdf1q3zU by CJPaloma@universeodon.com
       2023-03-09T16:36:56Z
       
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       @dave although the major corporately owned "liberal" news groups and puniditutes professed shock, plenty of -progressives- openly voiced worry that something bad would happen -on- Jan 6. I know I did. My sister (who is a NYT kind of liberal) thought I was a genius for predicting it. So I have to say: I find it... interesting... that Politico runs this story now... after NOT doing so earlier in the game... and after cheerleading for (obviously wannabe and now full fledged) fascists like Ron desantis for for basically all of 2020-2021 and into 2022. Politico does both good reporting and pure propaganda- this is an example of the first.  But the timing is "safe."  Ask why.  My guess is they think the degradation is so great that it's safe enough to "uncover" the truth. I would like to disagree, but I'm not quite convinced that I can.