The WA GOP put it in writing that they’re not into democracy

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/the-wa-gop-put-it-in-writing-that-theyre-not-into-democracy/

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  1. That’s beyond even just saying the quiet part out loud, at this point. If they were villains in Marvel they’d be publishing “Hail Hydra” on the S.H.I.E.L.D. company bulletin board with a selfie.

  2. Republikkkans now stand in line to help suck-start Putin’s Rolls Royce… sad times

  4. >WHEREAS Washington state elections are replete with serious and numerous issues causing lack of confidence in voter data and the entire election process, including concerns for the legitimacy of voter registrations and the veracity of election results

    This is literally just making shit up. There is nothing that they can actually point to as evidence of voting issues or problems with the election process. They just twist data and make up claims to support their point.

    >the Washington State Republican Party advocates the following policies:

    > * Same-day in-person voting at precinct level with photo ID (with valid excepted absenteeism or incapacity) by U.S. citizens only, utilizing paper ballots to be hand-counted, and results to be determined within a reasonable time;

    Fuck…that. Voting by mail is amazing.

    >THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that we declare the 17th Amendment process of electing United States Senators by the popular vote to be defective, that it fails to represent the interests of the individual states, and we implore the Congress to propose an amendment pursuant to Article V of the Constitution of the United States to repeal the 17th Amendment in order to restore the states to their prior status as partners in the political process.

    So now they want to repeal the 17th amendment and allow state legislatures to pick Senators directly. Even them saying “it fails to represent the interests of the individual states” is ignoring reality. The Senate very clearly represents the individual states. If the country was governed entirely as a direct democracy, conservatives would be irrelevant. The fact that they’re able to stonewall anything in Congress is because they happen to control more states than Democrats do (and will continue to do so, as rural areas become less populated relative to cities).

    >THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Washington State Republican Party, in convention assembled, acknowledges that our nation is intended to be a republic, not a democracy

    >BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that we encourage Republicans to substitute the words “republic” and “republicanism” where previously they have used the word “democracy;” and

    >BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that we support legislation that preserves the republican nature of our government institutions and **oppose legislation which makes our nation more “democratic” in nature**, and that, while we favor and encourage liberty in all nations, we oppose all efforts to use American military might to spread “democracy” around the world.

    Oh. Well they just literally passed a resolution saying they oppose democracy. Not hyperbole or exaggeration. Just literally “oppose legislation which makes our nation more “democratic””.

    Washington, and other states, really need to pass (state) constitutional amendments protecting their citizens’ rights from GOP fuckery like this. Anytime they manage to regain control of any part of the government, they’ll try to push these insane ideas.

  5. These people are the biggest snowflakes ever.

    “Please say Republicism, not democracy”

  6. The specific comments:

    >A resolution called for ending the ability to vote for U.S. senators. Instead, senators would get appointed by state legislatures, as it generally worked 110 years ago prior to the passage of the 17th Amendment in 1913. “We are devolving into a democracy, because congressmen and senators are elected by the same pool,” was how one GOP delegate put it to the convention. “We do not want to be a democracy.”

    >Then they kicked it up a notch. They passed a resolution calling on people to please stop using the word “democracy.” “We encourage Republicans to substitute the words ‘republic’ and ‘republicanism’ where previously they have used the word ‘democracy,’ ” the resolution says. “Every time the word ‘democracy’ is used favorably it serves to promote the principles of the Democratic Party, the principles of which we ardently oppose.” The resolution sums up: “We … oppose legislation which makes our nation more democratic in nature.”

    [The original primary source document cited here. I recommend downloading a copy before it’s deleted forever](https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24602348-2024-gop-resolutions).

  7. The WA GOP have decided to lose Washington state. Say what you want about WA state being full of hippies, liberals, tesla-buyers et cetera but a moderate candidate would do well. California is arguably more liberal but they elected a hardcore fiscal conservative, Gavin Newsom, to two terms. A socially libertarian, fiscally conservative, guns-and-weed WA GOP can win WA. The WA GOP is not that. This is an admission by them that they cannot, and will not by their own choice, win or even compete in statewide elections. It is an attempt to roll back the clock a literal century and hope it wouldn’t blow up in their face, even though giving a predominately Democratic state the ability to ignore their opinions when choosing Senators would make WA a one-party state.

    Which, arguably, is what they want. They want the ability to be in a small -although pure- minority and claim they don’t live in a free country so they can rationalize picking up guns and shooting at “traitors”. They want a civil war, which is what their rhetoric demands, especially the ones that idolize Nevada’s Bundy Ranch or Texas’s Branch Davidians as a role model.

  9. So they want to go by a different name and change the language of how their party identifies? How the government identifies? Sounds woke. /s

  10. Rat Bastards = used to describe someone who is despicable or untrustworthy

  11. It’s insane how republicans can somehow keep finding deep ends to jump off of. Like, directly campaigning against democracy because they think the marketing of it helps democrats

  12. I guess they’re betting that their base doesn’t read

  13. These losers should take their ugly asses and move to Idaho or Montana where they belong.

  15. It’s a slippery slope to public unrest, violence and political assassinations; if you can’t vote them out, what’s the alternative?

  17. This unpopular insanity has no chance of being passed. Except, of course, if we take what Lara Trump has said in terms of 100,000’s of ‘poll watchers’ harassing voters. The threat is real. Imagine them sending people to stop the voting. Many people don’t get to vote because of physical intimidation, Democratic voters can’t vote. Supreme court says ‘too bad’.

  18. This would allow state level gerrymandering to directly affect federal Senate races, so of course republicans love it.

  20. Is this an undercurrent that always existed, or a more serious sign of the decline in American Democracy.

  21. Oh ffs. Just some nonsense written by some backwoods district that has zero chance to pass because the dems have a choke hold on the state legislature. Yeah, it’s embarrassing that this came out of my state but districts compromised of fucking trailer trash are going to elect trailer trash.

  22. So sad to see such horrible humans attempting to destroy the very society that has enabled them to live decent lives. Clueless ghouls. So frustrating.

  24. We already know that the GOP is opposed to democracy. The question is what do we do when one of Americas 2 major parties is so fervently opposed to democracy that they will seek to dismantle it altogether? We need to accept that we no longer have a 2 party system. We have one major political party vs a crime syndicate at best or a domestic terrorist organization at worst.

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