A Republican Death Star is Targeting Your Liberty: by Jim Hightower: While the Powers That Be constantly warn us about foreign threats to our democracy from Russian trolls, TikTok...

Geo

While the Powers That Be constantly warn us about foreign threats to our democracy from Russian trolls, TikTok, etc. – there is scant coverage of an actual assault on our people’s democratic liberties by forces on our own soil.

It’s coming from extremist, right-wing Republican lawmakers who have autocratic control over more than a score of America’s state governments. Their obscure anti-democracy weapon is called “preemption” – the dangerous power of state officials to nullify laws passed by local people.

It’s supposed to be used rarely, carefully, and only in emergency situations, but today’s radical Big Government Republicans have weaponized it, routinely overturning local actions that the GOP’s corporate funders don’t like. Local decisions to protect worker safety, outlaw loan sharking, shut down puppy mills, prevent workplace discrimination, stop pollution, control political corruption… and so many more popular democratic reforms are being abolished by Republican autocrats in service to plutocrats. Some 500 more of those usurpations are moving through state legislatures across the country now – with practically no public notice.

Embarrassingly, GOP leaders in my state of Texas have been leading this charge against the people’s democratic will, and they’re now enacting a nuclearized escalation of their attack. Their new weapon has been dubbed “Death Star” – a state law that will preemptively ban cities and counties from passing corporate regulations stronger than state regulation (which is infamously feeble). The ban – gleefully pushed by a horde of lobbyist for brand-name corporate elites – includes letting corporations overturn existing local protections for workers, consumers, small business, the environment, and others. “We h**e cities and counties,” grumped the sponsor of the Death Star law.

This is a wholesale usurpation of your and my liberty to govern ourselves. In exchange for political funding, GOP officials are literally outsourcing the people’s democratic authority to private profiteers. Learn more at www.supportdemocracy.org.

Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio

Geo wrote:

While the Powers That Be constantly warn us about foreign threats to our democracy from Russian trolls, TikTok, etc. – there is scant coverage of an actual assault on our people’s democratic liberties by forces on our own soil.

It’s coming from extremist, right-wing Republican lawmakers who have autocratic control over more than a score of America’s state governments. Their obscure anti-democracy weapon is called “preemption” – the dangerous power of state officials to nullify laws passed by local people.

It’s supposed to be used rarely, carefully, and only in emergency situations, but today’s radical Big Government Republicans have weaponized it, routinely overturning local actions that the GOP’s corporate funders don’t like. Local decisions to protect worker safety, outlaw loan sharking, shut down puppy mills, prevent workplace discrimination, stop pollution, control political corruption… and so many more popular democratic reforms are being abolished by Republican autocrats in service to plutocrats. Some 500 more of those usurpations are moving through state legislatures across the country now – with practically no public notice.

Embarrassingly, GOP leaders in my state of Texas have been leading this charge against the people’s democratic will, and they’re now enacting a nuclearized escalation of their attack. Their new weapon has been dubbed “Death Star” – a state law that will preemptively ban cities and counties from passing corporate regulations stronger than state regulation (which is infamously feeble). The ban – gleefully pushed by a horde of lobbyist for brand-name corporate elites – includes letting corporations overturn existing local protections for workers, consumers, small business, the environment, and others. “We h**e cities and counties,” grumped the sponsor of the Death Star law.

This is a wholesale usurpation of your and my liberty to govern ourselves. In exchange for political funding, GOP officials are literally outsourcing the people’s democratic authority to private profiteers. Learn more at www.supportdemocracy.org.

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I would like to add these same groups are working toward a convention of states .
Whereby , once they have the required number of states on board , they can begin rewriting the Constitution .
In their own image , of course.
I believe the number is 35 states .
And they have 28 .
This is never mentioned in the news .
Any news.

MidnightRider

Geo wrote:

While the Powers That Be constantly warn us about foreign threats to our democracy from Russian trolls, TikTok, etc. – there is scant coverage of an actual assault on our people’s democratic liberties by forces on our own soil.

It’s coming from extremist, right-wing Republican lawmakers who have autocratic control over more than a score of America’s state governments. Their obscure anti-democracy weapon is called “preemption” – the dangerous power of state officials to nullify laws passed by local people.

It’s supposed to be used rarely, carefully, and only in emergency situations, but today’s radical Big Government Republicans have weaponized it, routinely overturning local actions that the GOP’s corporate funders don’t like. Local decisions to protect worker safety, outlaw loan sharking, shut down puppy mills, prevent workplace discrimination, stop pollution, control political corruption… and so many more popular democratic reforms are being abolished by Republican autocrats in service to plutocrats. Some 500 more of those usurpations are moving through state legislatures across the country now – with practically no public notice.

Embarrassingly, GOP leaders in my state of Texas have been leading this charge against the people’s democratic will, and they’re now enacting a nuclearized escalation of their attack. Their new weapon has been dubbed “Death Star” – a state law that will preemptively ban cities and counties from passing corporate regulations stronger than state regulation (which is infamously feeble). The ban – gleefully pushed by a horde of lobbyist for brand-name corporate elites – includes letting corporations overturn existing local protections for workers, consumers, small business, the environment, and others. “We h**e cities and counties,” grumped the sponsor of the Death Star law.

This is a wholesale usurpation of your and my liberty to govern ourselves. In exchange for political funding, GOP officials are literally outsourcing the people’s democratic authority to private profiteers. Learn more at www.supportdemocracy.org.

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I almost answered you, but NWR

pescado rojo

Geo wrote:

While the Powers That Be constantly warn us about foreign threats to our democracy from Russian trolls, TikTok, etc. – there is scant coverage of an actual assault on our people’s democratic liberties by forces on our own soil.

It’s coming from extremist, right-wing Republican lawmakers who have autocratic control over more than a score of America’s state governments. Their obscure anti-democracy weapon is called “preemption” – the dangerous power of state officials to nullify laws passed by local people.

It’s supposed to be used rarely, carefully, and only in emergency situations, but today’s radical Big Government Republicans have weaponized it, routinely overturning local actions that the GOP’s corporate funders don’t like. Local decisions to protect worker safety, outlaw loan sharking, shut down puppy mills, prevent workplace discrimination, stop pollution, control political corruption… and so many more popular democratic reforms are being abolished by Republican autocrats in service to plutocrats. Some 500 more of those usurpations are moving through state legislatures across the country now – with practically no public notice.

Embarrassingly, GOP leaders in my state of Texas have been leading this charge against the people’s democratic will, and they’re now enacting a nuclearized escalation of their attack. Their new weapon has been dubbed “Death Star” – a state law that will preemptively ban cities and counties from passing corporate regulations stronger than state regulation (which is infamously feeble). The ban – gleefully pushed by a horde of lobbyist for brand-name corporate elites – includes letting corporations overturn existing local protections for workers, consumers, small business, the environment, and others. “We h**e cities and counties,” grumped the sponsor of the Death Star law.

This is a wholesale usurpation of your and my liberty to govern ourselves. In exchange for political funding, GOP officials are literally outsourcing the people’s democratic authority to private profiteers. Learn more at www.supportdemocracy.org.

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Yep. This outfit opposes v**er ID, secure borders, school choice, removal of sexually explicit material from primary grade school libraries, all sorts of freedom reducing woolly boogers.

pescado rojo

Milosia2 wrote:

I would like to add these same groups are working toward a convention of states .
Whereby , once they have the required number of states on board , they can begin rewriting the Constitution .
In their own image , of course.
I believe the number is 35 states .
And they have 28 .
This is never mentioned in the news .
Any news.

Your stupid is showing. Again. Two thirds of the states can call for a convention, but any changes to the Constitution must be ratified by three fourths of the states. That's thirty-eight of them. Not going to happen, Skippy.

MidnightRider

Milosia2 wrote:

I would like to add these same groups are working toward a convention of states .
Whereby , once they have the required number of states on board , they can begin rewriting the Constitution .
In their own image , of course.
I believe the number is 35 states .
And they have 28 .
This is never mentioned in the news .
Any news.

You aren't in on the ground floor so to speak. I get their letters. For right now at least nobody is trying to change the Constitution, but yes it is in the news. Just news you don't get, as I said before.

Ronald Hatt Loc: Lansing, Mich

Geo wrote:

While the Powers That Be constantly warn us about foreign threats to our democracy from Russian trolls, TikTok, etc. – there is scant coverage of an actual assault on our people’s democratic liberties by forces on our own soil.

It’s coming from extremist, right-wing Republican lawmakers who have autocratic control over more than a score of America’s state governments. Their obscure anti-democracy weapon is called “preemption” – the dangerous power of state officials to nullify laws passed by local people.

It’s supposed to be used rarely, carefully, and only in emergency situations, but today’s radical Big Government Republicans have weaponized it, routinely overturning local actions that the GOP’s corporate funders don’t like. Local decisions to protect worker safety, outlaw loan sharking, shut down puppy mills, prevent workplace discrimination, stop pollution, control political corruption… and so many more popular democratic reforms are being abolished by Republican autocrats in service to plutocrats. Some 500 more of those usurpations are moving through state legislatures across the country now – with practically no public notice.

Embarrassingly, GOP leaders in my state of Texas have been leading this charge against the people’s democratic will, and they’re now enacting a nuclearized escalation of their attack. Their new weapon has been dubbed “Death Star” – a state law that will preemptively ban cities and counties from passing corporate regulations stronger than state regulation (which is infamously feeble). The ban – gleefully pushed by a horde of lobbyist for brand-name corporate elites – includes letting corporations overturn existing local protections for workers, consumers, small business, the environment, and others. “We h**e cities and counties,” grumped the sponsor of the Death Star law.

This is a wholesale usurpation of your and my liberty to govern ourselves. In exchange for political funding, GOP officials are literally outsourcing the people’s democratic authority to private profiteers. Learn more at www.supportdemocracy.org.

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I guess you have not heard about the "Political" appointments of Obammy, Clinton, Biden?

That's a whole new slant on Political "cronie-ism", *political crime, & the *abhoration of what the demoncraps have done to this republic!

Boy...You need a reality check!

stephanie wilson Loc: West Chicago, IL

Geo wrote:

While the Powers That Be constantly warn us about foreign threats to our democracy from Russian trolls, TikTok, etc. – there is scant coverage of an actual assault on our people’s democratic liberties by forces on our own soil.

It’s coming from extremist, right-wing Republican lawmakers who have autocratic control over more than a score of America’s state governments. Their obscure anti-democracy weapon is called “preemption” – the dangerous power of state officials to nullify laws passed by local people.

It’s supposed to be used rarely, carefully, and only in emergency situations, but today’s radical Big Government Republicans have weaponized it, routinely overturning local actions that the GOP’s corporate funders don’t like. Local decisions to protect worker safety, outlaw loan sharking, shut down puppy mills, prevent workplace discrimination, stop pollution, control political corruption… and so many more popular democratic reforms are being abolished by Republican autocrats in service to plutocrats. Some 500 more of those usurpations are moving through state legislatures across the country now – with practically no public notice.

Embarrassingly, GOP leaders in my state of Texas have been leading this charge against the people’s democratic will, and they’re now enacting a nuclearized escalation of their attack. Their new weapon has been dubbed “Death Star” – a state law that will preemptively ban cities and counties from passing corporate regulations stronger than state regulation (which is infamously feeble). The ban – gleefully pushed by a horde of lobbyist for brand-name corporate elites – includes letting corporations overturn existing local protections for workers, consumers, small business, the environment, and others. “We h**e cities and counties,” grumped the sponsor of the Death Star law.

This is a wholesale usurpation of your and my liberty to govern ourselves. In exchange for political funding, GOP officials are literally outsourcing the people’s democratic authority to private profiteers. Learn more at www.supportdemocracy.org.

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LMAO! Lay off the crack man.

Ronald Hatt Loc: Lansing, Mich

stephanie wilson wrote:

LMAO! Lay off the crack man.

Crack man?...[ "OR"...Lying dog faced pony soldier?]....