2020 Election

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(10-06-2020, 11:34 AM)Mickeypoo Wrote: I do take it seriously.  I just see the assault coming from liberal/progressive policies and the huge media bias.  There are always two perspectives.

There most certainly are. For example, I was curious enough to watch a whole hour of Judge Jeanine recently. I have never seen such an unrestricted orgy of love towards a politician, except maybe on other shows on FOX news, the presidential propaganda channel. "Huge media bias" certainly goes both ways, but hardly anything is quite as extreme as what happens there. CNN or even MSNBC display a certain bias for sure, but it is not nearly the same.

When it comes to assaulting democracy, I have yet to see anything from the left that even comes close to what Trump and the GOP recently does to undermine the whole election process. Including 100% unfounded claims of voter fraud by the millions, trying to kneecap the post office so mail-in ballots can not be counted, floating plans to disregard actual results and let republican governors tell the electors who to choose instead (I don't know if that is serious, but the floating of this idea alone is alarming), a refusal of Trump to guarantee a peaceful transfer of power or him claiming that if he loses, the whole election is rigged. This is not a complete list.

(10-06-2020, 11:34 AM)Mickeypoo Wrote: Liberals were fine when the SCOTUS tilted left, now all of a sudden the SCOTUS potentially leaning right is going to be an assault on our democracy?

Yeah, this imho is not about the right leaning SCOTUS per se, but rather about denying Obama a nomination 11 months before an election out of principle and then pushing one through within a few weeks of an election, potentially just reducing or skipping the necessary vetting process and all and blatantly disregarding the own principle.

(10-06-2020, 11:34 AM)Mickeypoo Wrote: I'm simply not a fan of liberalism/progressivism.  

That's fair enough.