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Eight Big Things We Overcame this Year and Every Year. Time to Appreciate and Keep it up. [1]

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Date: 2022-11-28

This morning, I read Inside the Billionaire-Backed ‘Hub for Election Denial’, describing how right wing megadonors the Uihleins have not only been spending tens of millions of dollars funding election deniers, but are partnering with one by hiring Arizona Republican Gina Swoboda as Executive Director of their nonprofit dark money group, Restoration Action Inc., which largely focuses on bogus “election integrity” campaigns, including her current effort to challenge Kari Lake’s loss for AZ Governor.

Overwhelming Republican financial support by billionaires is just one of the ways Democrats must overcome steep odds every election. Here are eight:

1. Grotesque under-representation in the Senate, where Democrats representing 40 million more people have only 50-51% of the Senior Chamber. 2. House gerrymandering, sanctioned by the US Supreme Court and (this year) NY’s highest Court. 3. Right Wing media dominance through Fox, 1,000 Rush-heirs et al. 4. MSM complicity and passivity in countering and correcting No. 3. 5. Lack of a Dem counterpart to the right wing media barrage (MSNBC ain’t it) 6. Post- Citizens United obscene spending by, e.g., the Uileins, Mercers, Kochs, Mellons et al. 7. Voter suppression, as for example in FL arrests of ex-felons. 8. Of course, the electoral college.

Shortly after the election I wrote a Twitter thread detailing these factors:

x 2. House: SCOTUS approved and blue state betrayal gerrymandering (I.e., , NY -- Andrew Cuomo's R Court elects R's to Congress in one of the bluest states) — Woke Mob Against Domestic Terrorists (@Bosengood) November 12, 2022

x 4. MSM complicity in No. 3:



A. Repetition of right wing themes.

B. False equivalence.

C. Adoption of CW and false election narratives ("red wave") ("Evil Dems are supporting MAGA in primaries") — Woke Mob Against Domestic Terrorists (@Bosengood) November 12, 2022

x 6. Grotesque post-Citizens United billions of dollars shoved into R campaign coffers while we scrounge for small dollar contributions. — Woke Mob Against Domestic Terrorists (@Bosengood) November 12, 2022

x 8. Of course, electoral college in Presidential years. — Woke Mob Against Domestic Terrorists (@Bosengood) November 12, 2022

As I wrote last week, we stopped fascism without even having to time travel to kill Baby Hitler.

And for the next week, we have to continue doing it for Sen. Warnock in GA.

And after that, for the next two years. And especially for young voters, with these and other groups:

Note: For the poll, I omitted the Electoral College, because I think that’s the biggest in light of it determining both 2000 and 2016.

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