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Somehow, I hope roberts and his cohorts get replaced by the most liberal immigrants in america. We need real change, not regression.
This whole thing is going to explode in their faces one way or another. I just doubt they'll ever see consequences.
I hope the vote counting machines crash
Right now while people are pissed at Republicans, the most progressive candidates need to be running everywhere. Especially places that Dems usually avoid.
Get the protest votes, take Congress back and fix some of the root causes.
Many of the bullshit issues we are dealing with not stem from simple things Congress has passed by regular majority votes over the last 100 years. They don't require Constitutional Amendments or anything complicated, just a Congress doing it's job.
Repeal the Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 that artificially caps the House at 435. Passed in large part just because they just didn't want to expand the Capitol Building. Remove the defacto second Senate that created. Give us those additional House seats to actually be represented and make gerrymandering much less effective at the Federal level. If we used the average district size at the time that was passed, we would have roughly 1500 representatives. There would be no 1 or 2 seat majorities to dramatically flip Congressional priorities every couple years, stabilizing Congress and requiring more compromises.
Expand the Supreme Court to the 12 Justices it should be, matching the 12 Federal Circuits as it was originally designed.
Move the US Marshal Service under the Judicial branch to execute Judicial decisions. This allows the courts an enforcement mechanism if the Executive doesn't want to comply, and the Legislative is complicit and unwilling to impeach and remove.
These alone would get us extremely far with fixing the bullshit they've done in the last 200 years to destroy true Democracy in this country.
Then once stabilized, the actual deep issues can start to be addressed.