Elections have consequences, as we saw with the Supreme Court ignoring precedent and the infiltration of the religious right influence, and that of billionaires tipping the scales with their control of the Federalist Society.
If you thought the Supreme Court was the ultimate goal, you would be wrong.
Now we have good ole Rick Santorum spilling the beans:
As former Republican senator Rick Santorum addressed Republican lawmakers gathered in San Diego at the American Legislative Exchange Council policy summit, he detailed a plan to fundamentally remake the United States.
It would become a conservative nation.
And the transformation, Santorum said, culminates with an unprecedented event: a first-of-its-kind convention to rewrite the Constitution.
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Audio of his remarks were obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy
In audio obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), featured speaker Rick Santorum, a former GOP senator from Pennsylvania who joined the Convention of States Project in September as a senior adviser, expressed optimism about the movement and made an important admission to his private audience: their path to victory relies on gerrymandering.
Excerpt from the audio:
We have a hard time winning presidential elections, as you know, in Pennsylvania, yet we dominate the state legislature and Congress. Why? …All [of Democrats’] votes are concentrated in a very small group of people [in urban areas], and it’s hard to draw legislative districts that they can win because most of their legislative districts are 90 plus percent one party.
Rural voters, even though there are fewer of them…actually have an outsize granted power under this process. And we have the opportunity as a result of that to have a supermajority, even though…we may not even be in an absolute majority when it comes to the people who agree with us, but because of the way the concentration of votes has changed in this country, we can actually accomplish things.
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The bottom line — they need Republican control of 34 states to get their constitutional convention.
And they get their fundamental racist ‘christian’ fascism.
For those not paying attention to history, yes Hitler hijacked Christianity to spread Nazism:
Within the German Evangelical Church the pro-Nazi “German Christian” (Deutsche Christen) movement emerged in the early 1930s. It attempted to fuse Christianity and National Socialism and promoted a “racially-pure” church by attacking Jewish influences on Christianity.
This attempt to nazify the primary Protestant church provoked a backlash, leading to the formation of the Confessing Church (Bekennende Kirche) in 1934. Both the Confessing and the “German Christian” movements remained part of the German Evangelical Church. The Confessing Church movement condemned Nazified theology and the attempt to nationalize the church, but it limited its protest to maintaining the theological integrity and autonomy of the Protestant churches—not protesting the legitimacy of the Nazi state itself.
Although there were individual resisters, many mainstream Protestant and Catholic church leaders made numerous compromises with Nazi authorities and supported many of the Nazi measures throughout the period.
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IOW, ‘christian’ Nationalism. The same kind of movement being pushed by Republicans today.
They say it is for ‘freedom’ just as Hitler said. In reality it is all about power, control, compliance and loyalty to false prophets and golden idols. IOW, the opposite of freedom.
And funded by the GOP mega donors.
Democracy is in crisis. The only way to protect it is to win elections.
And doing that starts with the realization that Republicans are engaged in active psychological warfare — every minute of the day, mostly on social media. High school debate club tactics that Democrats are using are pitifully inadequate.
You fight a psychological war with psychological tactics.
Democratic messaging is not on a war footing. It needs to be. And now.