In Georgia, two GOP senators called on the state’s Republican secretary of state to resign, alleging irregularities and mismanagement without offering evidence. Only four of 53 Senate Republicans have congratulated Biden on his projected victory. Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin recently told reporters “there’s nothing to congratulate [Biden] about,” while Missouri’s Roy Blunt said the president “may not have been defeated at all.”
It’s the latest sign of the party’s lurch away from democratic ideals and practices, a shift that predates Trump but one that has accelerated precipitously since. Now, according to data released by an international team of political scientists just before the Nov. 3 election, it’s possible to quantify the extent to which the Republican Party no longer adheres to such principles as the commitment to free and fair elections with multiple parties, the respectful treatment of political opponents and the avoidance of violent rhetoric.
“The Republican Party in the U.S. has retreated from upholding democratic norms in recent years,” said Anna Lührmann, a political scientist at the University of Gothenburg in […]
I sure wish I could win Publisher’s Clearing House or some other big-money contests, because then I could away from this country. Frankly, it scares me how much this country has been subverted. Noam Chomsky, one of the world’s greatest philosophers has stated that America is now the greatest threat to world peace, and is the REAL terroristic threat to our world, all because of “our” huge military-industrial-banking complex.
P.S. sorry: i typed “I could get away”, but my stupid keyboard does not work properly (it is cordless), and I could not change the posted comment.