They pulled the same shit in Kentucky over abortion with a poorly worded short two sentence thing that you couldn't tell of it was a yes or no answer. Conversely the other thing on the ballot was a three page diatribe on "Should the state legislative sessions be shorter."
The abortion ban failed and the media wants to act like Kentucky is pro abortion now. Which is disgusting.
"Tyranny of the majority" is the phrase you're looking for, and it's why the federal government was styled as a Republic rather than a pure democracy. It's also what I think will lead to another civil war.
The left thinks that having a slim majority makes it OK to make life a living hell for the minority, who will just have to take it because the majority can use the legal system as a bludgeon against them. It really doesn't occur to them that the minority might just abandon the system entirely if it's rigged against them.
The progressives also believe everyone should vote. The last 150 years have proven definitively that everyone should not vote. The majority of people should not vote. Only people who take financial and personal, physical responsibility for the nation should vote. No one else.
Yes, I'm not sure how universal suffrage came to be considered a core component of American democracy, since the founding fathers didn't see it that way.
I personally believe we should have something like the service requirement in Starship Troopers to vote. At a minimum, those receiving public assistance shouldn't be allowed to vote, as they're basically deciding how to spend other people's money.
Same way that arbitrary immigration became an American value when the history is extreme caution, and it was unpopular with the rabble most of the time regardless.
That is to say that 60s progressives were able to elect a new electorate and were eager to erase history as soon as it happened.
A siege of the cities that ends when the starving masses acquiesce is the only way another civil war ends, if it ever goes hot.
All it takes is some heavy-duty road-construction equipment or enough explosive material to make the interstate highway system and railroads in and out of cities unusable, and it is over.
I don't think the lefties driving this conflict understand that they are absolutely surrounded by people who have the ability to erase them from existence, and the only thing stopping anyone from doing it is the fundamentally intact morality of their enemies.
Congress will never approve the creation of new states that would be red. I don't know what it takes to go join another state, but I assume it's approval of both parties, and I don't think either one would approve in Eastern Oregon's case.
And while many gun owners opposed the measure on principle, others said they were willing to deal with the new hassle of obtaining a permit if it meant saving lives.
I don't even know what that means. It's so beyond belief I have to assume it's fake. (lefties pretending to be longstanding gun owners - just like they pretend to be Republican poll watchers)
Oregon is another state where a big metro area ruins it for the rest of the state. My dad said that these lefties should stop moving further out into the suburbs or rural areas since the city and all its crime is what they vote for
They like visiting the city, but not live in it. They also have decided on which protesters are the home team like its some kind of sport. For Portland, that isn't a joke.
That has become very clear to me. Best example would be the people in the gated communities cheering on the destruction during summer of love. You know they would be calling the cops if those thugs set foot in their neighborhood
I used to think this way but it's clear that a majority of them do genuinely prefer crime-ridden squalor over functional cities. There's no other reasonable explanation.
Guarantee you when they talk about forcing people to take public transit, either they use it and want other people to share their misery, or they think it will be someone else forced to use it, and they will continue to drive.
51% to 49% shouldn't be acceptable for shit like this.
Yea that's bullshit margins that are suspect
Iowa decided to add the second amendment to our constitution 63 to 37. It should have to be at least 60 to 40 for anything like this.
They pulled the same shit in Kentucky over abortion with a poorly worded short two sentence thing that you couldn't tell of it was a yes or no answer. Conversely the other thing on the ballot was a three page diatribe on "Should the state legislative sessions be shorter."
The abortion ban failed and the media wants to act like Kentucky is pro abortion now. Which is disgusting.
"Tyranny of the majority" is the phrase you're looking for, and it's why the federal government was styled as a Republic rather than a pure democracy. It's also what I think will lead to another civil war.
The left thinks that having a slim majority makes it OK to make life a living hell for the minority, who will just have to take it because the majority can use the legal system as a bludgeon against them. It really doesn't occur to them that the minority might just abandon the system entirely if it's rigged against them.
The progressives also believe everyone should vote. The last 150 years have proven definitively that everyone should not vote. The majority of people should not vote. Only people who take financial and personal, physical responsibility for the nation should vote. No one else.
Yes, I'm not sure how universal suffrage came to be considered a core component of American democracy, since the founding fathers didn't see it that way.
I personally believe we should have something like the service requirement in Starship Troopers to vote. At a minimum, those receiving public assistance shouldn't be allowed to vote, as they're basically deciding how to spend other people's money.
Same way that arbitrary immigration became an American value when the history is extreme caution, and it was unpopular with the rabble most of the time regardless.
That is to say that 60s progressives were able to elect a new electorate and were eager to erase history as soon as it happened.
They use mail in voting in Oregon. I put money on fraud being used to get this passed.
Correct, with a Republican coming for Governor they pulled out all the stops here with fraud.
51 to 49 just means that they kept 'finding' ballots until they got what they needed.
democracy is gay
Mega gay
“We’re seceding!”
“Succeeding at what?”
More seriously: people tend to draw civil war 2 battle lines as red states vs blue states, but the reality is red counties vs blue.
Red rural, primary and secondary industry vs blue urban, tertiary industry
A siege of the cities that ends when the starving masses acquiesce is the only way another civil war ends, if it ever goes hot.
All it takes is some heavy-duty road-construction equipment or enough explosive material to make the interstate highway system and railroads in and out of cities unusable, and it is over.
I don't think the lefties driving this conflict understand that they are absolutely surrounded by people who have the ability to erase them from existence, and the only thing stopping anyone from doing it is the fundamentally intact morality of their enemies.
Congress will never approve the creation of new states that would be red. I don't know what it takes to go join another state, but I assume it's approval of both parties, and I don't think either one would approve in Eastern Oregon's case.
Dumb fucks
I don't even know what that means. It's so beyond belief I have to assume it's fake. (lefties pretending to be longstanding gun owners - just like they pretend to be Republican poll watchers)
Lefties inherited Chad grandpa's Mosin Nagant, thinks it's scary, but it is willing to use it as a prop for virtue signaling.
Oregon is another state where a big metro area ruins it for the rest of the state. My dad said that these lefties should stop moving further out into the suburbs or rural areas since the city and all its crime is what they vote for
They like visiting the city, but not live in it. They also have decided on which protesters are the home team like its some kind of sport. For Portland, that isn't a joke.
That has become very clear to me. Best example would be the people in the gated communities cheering on the destruction during summer of love. You know they would be calling the cops if those thugs set foot in their neighborhood
I used to think this way but it's clear that a majority of them do genuinely prefer crime-ridden squalor over functional cities. There's no other reasonable explanation.
Guarantee you when they talk about forcing people to take public transit, either they use it and want other people to share their misery, or they think it will be someone else forced to use it, and they will continue to drive.
I imagine it’s more of Portland voters
Never underestimate Eugene or Bend.
to scotus
Just shorten your magazines, it will save lives. Just register your guns, it will save lives. Just give up your pistols, it will save lives.
We're shooting at you, we're shooting at you. We're saving lives.
Where are you going to buy a gun, though, if they require a permit? Out of state?