I'm with you, addidasss, very pleased that the Supreme Court made such a clear dismissal of the Texas case.
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Originally Posted by adidasss
I don't know if we have to wait until January or the 14th of December for this nightmare to be over.
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The actual contesting of the election may stop on Dec 14, but all the dynamics and players that brought about these crazy lawsuits are still in place, so the fight, perhaps disguised as something else, will go on for a long time I think.
Back before the election, the GOP announced that their party platform, their only firm policy was loyalty to Trump. As many people see it, the Texas case showed that 17 Republican states and 126 Republican senators were prepared to take that attitude to the point of overturning American democracy. That's going to cast a long shadow and suggests that Biden will struggle to find the co-operation, the coming together that he hopes for.
It's a paradox of democracies that, to be democratic, they must allow parties to run who would abandon democracy if elected. In Western Europe, with the small showing of parties like the communists in multi-party races, that's usually just an academic point. How is the US going to be, though, with two parties only, one of which appears to be abandoning the principles of democracy?!