Quote Originally Posted by fafalone View Post
RIP RBG. She fought the good fight for civil rights all the way to the bitter end.

If the Republicans seat a replacement, and Democrats take back the white house and senate, it'll be high time for the party that represents a minority of the country to be relegated to minority power. The 'they go low, we go high' strategy has led to loss after loss after loss. They've been playing chess against an opponent that treats every pawn as a queen, while studiously following all the rules for their pieces, and making a 'bipartisan compromise' for Republicans to only play with 8 queens instead of 9. You can never win against an opponent who ignores the rules by sticking to them yourself, and I'm completely sick of Democrats doing just that.

So if they manage to confirm a right-wing lunatic like member of an extremist religious cult Amy Coney Barret (look up People of Praise), that better be it. I don't want to hear one word from Democrats about taking the high road and just letting them have all the power. Increase the size of the court to 13 members and appoint the 4 most liberal judges you can find, eliminate the filibuster, grant statehood to DC and PR making it nigh impossible for Republicans as they exist today to get back the Senate, and repeal the Reapportionment Act of 1929 to get rid of the ridiculous hard cap on House members which Republicans rely on to have any chance at controlling that chamber.

The Republicans have used every dirty trick in the book to cheat in elections and force the will of an increasingly small minority to control the majority. Democrats need to fight back for once if this nominee goes through. It's time for the Republicans to have only the power the size of their voter base ought to accord.
I disagree with throwing away your principles to defeat someone that has none. To me at the end of the journey it is how you got there. The republican party is dying off on its own. The country is steadily becoming more diverse and progressive. The popular vote has been swinging progressive for decades. The republicans are clinging onto their last vestiges of power and are doing it by the means you described. They want to go back to some dreamy 1950's white man dominated world. Now is not the time to crawl into the gutter with them.