Robert Reich asks an important question:

[superpatriotman]

Are we experiencing a coup d’etat?

Consider these 9 facts:

1. Only 27 percent of Americans are Republican.

2. The vast majority of Americans disapprove of Trump, who lost the popular vote by 2.8 million.

3. Republican presidential candidates have lost the popular vote in 6 of the last 7 presidential elections.

4. Yet we’re about to have a second Supreme Court nomination from Trump, who, like Trump's first nominee, could be on the Court for the next 40 years -- joining with other Republican-appointed justices in a majority that gives a right-wing interpretation of the Constitution and laws.

5. Trump's second nominee, like his first, will also be confirmed by Senate Republicans, who, like House Republicans, did not win a majority of the vote in 2016.

6. This all comes after Republicans essentially stole a Supreme Court seat by refusing to consider President Barack Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland.

7. Trump's new justice is all but certain to join the other 4 Republican-appointed justices in overturning Roe v. Wade, a compromise on abortion that's supported by two-thirds of Americans.

8. The new justice is likely to do the same in revoking same-sex marriage, also supported by two-thirds of Americans.

9. Republicans also control both chambers in 32 states (33 if you count Nebraska) and 33 governorships. And in many of these states they are entrenching their power by gerrymandering and arranging to suppress votes.

Your thoughts?

[pangaia]

1. Yes..

I have felt that for oh.. since nov 2016

[genxlib]

2. This is what really pisses me off

What I always tell people is that we suck at Democracy. You can crow about being the greatest democracy on earth if you want to but the numbers don't back it up.

Part of the problem is that 99% of the people don't realize this. Many know about the Presidential popular vote but very few actually know how anti-democratic the balance of power in Congress is.

I would add that the one time that a GOP President actually won the popular vote, he was an incumbent buoyed by a war he started. It would not be a leap to believe they wouldn't have won that election either if the 2000 election had not been upside down.

And yet the snowflakes on the right are always complaining about being oppressed. Geez

[yonder]

3. K&R

[smirkymonkey]

4. Yes, we are.

There must be a radical change in this country.

[superpatriotman]

5. Yes!

We must COMPEL the people to vote as if their very lives depended on it.

Maybe no smartphones if you don't vote or something like that.

[Garrett78]

7. No electronic devices or fast food.

[AlexSFCA]

6. and if we dont win this novemebr, congress will pass federal abortion ban

you’d have to go to Canada

[WhiteTara]

8. My thoughts? GOTV!

Are registration forms in your car?