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It’s becoming so hard to focus on my various fears for my grandchildren. Help me to decide which subject I should be more terrified of...a lunatic SCOTUS, the dismantling of our democracy, or the destruction of our environment.

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I agree, there are so many fronts on which to fight. Don’t lose heart; keep reading about and sharing why this administration is so dangerous; and most importantly, VOTE, and urge others to do the same. The primary process will play out. Support the person who resonates and then be prepared to support whoever carries the nomination. And don’t forget about the down-ballot choices! They are every bit as important.

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Exactly. Some seem to think these “top tier” people exploded from nowhere and landed on top of the cake. Nah, these people have very deep, local and state roots. How else could an utter slime all such as McConnell stay in his Senate seat so long after completely screwing his constituents over as he has? All politics is local but today, if given the opportunity, the “stars” grow taproots into PAC money. That’s when the fun begins.

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Campaign finance reform. But it is hard to step an entire Congress with PAC money in their pockets. Both sides of the aisle unfortunately

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The problem is that Sanders alienates the moderate voters voted for Democratic candidates in 2018 as a check on Trump, and who must be persuaded to vote for Senate Democratic candidates in 2020. If Sanders wins the 2020 election, but down-ballot races are won by Republicans as a check on Sanders, then entitlements will be cut week1 of his administration. The sad truth is that most people (of both parties) are concerned with short-term interests over long-term consequences...they do not want to pay higher taxes now for the promise of free healthcare later.

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We are now witnessing the execution phase of a plot to stack the courts with ultra-conservatives that goes back decades. And like Trump, Chief Justice Roberts feels so emboldened that the Court's partisan decisions are now blatantly obvious. It was five Republican-appointed justices who ended the recount and named George Bush president in 2000, going so far as to write their decision was a one-off and should not be considered a precedent. After all, they didn't want a Democrat to benefit from a recount that is stopped before it reaches its conclusion. Let's remember that Bush filled two Supreme Court seats.

Conspiracy theory? Mitch McConnell showed his hand when he refused to even allow a vote on Merrick Garland, declaring the American people should decide who picks the next SC Justice since the presidential election was a year away. Still trying to find that "election year" rule in the Constitution. But maybe I should stop looking since McConnell boasted he would fill a seat in an election year as long as Trump was in office.

And it wasn't just the Supreme Court seat that McConnell and the GOP held open. McConnell refused to act on more than a hundred Obama federal court nominees, which is why Trump—via McConnell and the Federalist Society—has already given out more lifetime federal court judgeships in three years than Obama did in eight.

More than 25% of federal judges are Trump appointees. If he wins re-election, the far-right takeover of the federal court system will be complete and the last line of defense in the Trump/GOP's war on government will be lost.

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I don't think McConnell held the seat open because he was "hoping" for a Republican victory. I think he knew from the beginning that the election results were already determined.

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Isn’t that an interesting proposition though. McConnell knew the fix was in so that’s why he balked at Obama’s effort to try to publicize the intelligence community’s findings about Russian interference in the 2016 election. Someone should turn that into a political ad, no?

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I’m not sure I would describe them as having gone “quietly“ MAGA. Seems pretty loud & proud to me

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Amen

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Malodorous roads all lead back to Stephen Miller.

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Surely Miller has a part in all of it. Can you believe some one actually married him??

Power. But ewww.

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Not to get personal but ewww.

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If you think that it's bad now, just wait until he wins re-election. We better hope that RBG and other liberal Justices make it through the next four plus years or the Supreme Court will be lost for generations.

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SCOTUS is already lost...whether it's 5-4 or 7-2 decisions, every decision favors the Republican choice for dictatorship over democracy...the writing has been on the wall since Citizens United, but either people failed to grasp the far-reaching implications of this decision or they believed the 'Robert's self-described institutionalist myth'.

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This news is unsurprising yet disheartening. Everyday we creep one more step closer to a dictatorship and one that could run in family lineage just like North Korea. My four kids have a troubled future ahead.

It is like being at a dyke with all fingers and toes in cracks growing larger by the day. The flood will be sudden but we have known it was coming.

Yet how can a free people prepare for tyranny?

God help us.

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Has anyone explored whether McConnell, by holding the seat open for a year, violated his Constitutional imperative?

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Do you think he would give a happy hoot? He’s sold us all out.

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