New Rule: Power Begets Power
Don’t agree about shaming Republicans. But Maher speaks truth about Democrats needing to win state elections to protect voting rights.
Replace Proportional Representation with Representation by Population. Or Democrats need to move to Wyoming, South Dakota and North Dakota in overwhelming numbers.
Republicans get to run America and liberals just get to ruin their dinner. We need to get people like Ted Cruz out of power, not out of restaurants. #SchlitzKavanaugh #WeBelieveSurvivors
— Bill Maher @billmaher - Oct 5, 2018
we need to get people like Ted Cruz out of power, not out of restaurants. This is something Republicans understand way better than Democrats that real power isn't about making a scene or what makes you feel good. And power? It's a lot like owning rabbits. The more you have the easier it is to get a lot more. Power begets power.
Texas has very similar demographics to California but one reason they're red and we're blue is we want every citizen to be able to vote and they don't. A federal court has ruled 7 times that Texas Republicans drew their Congressional districts with, 'racial discriminatory intent.'
“But our federal court won't have the final say on this; that's the Supreme Court. They will. Which is why Republicans so desperately want to get Schlitz Kavanaugh confirmed.”
Even though he doesn't have the temperament to be a judge on American Idol because, like the rabbits, the more Justices Republicans get to pick, the more those judges protect unlimited campaign spending, and voter suppression laws, which helps get more Republicans elected. Power begets power.
“We all failed to notice that as more Americans move to coastal cities ..., rural red states became over-represented.”
Trump likes to say, 'the system's rigged.' Yeah, it's rigged, you're president. He leaves out the part that it's rigged for them. The electoral college helps Republicans. The fact that every state gets two Senators helps Republicans. [Senator] Mike Enzi of Wyoming represents 287,000 people; [Senator] Kamala Harris represents 20 million. Why is Wyoming even a state? ...
We all have to pin our hopes this week on Senator Susan Collins of Maine -- population: Stephen King, two lobsters, and a bear.
“Republicans in Texas were able to draw those districts with radically discriminatory intent because they won the State House! Democrats lost 1,000 state legislature seats in the last 10 years. Can't do it. We just can't do it like that. We need to win elections so we can protect voting rights so we can win elections.”
