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Megan Kelly mad at Bad Bunny for not being white.

@joyannreid.bsky.social a few weeks ago you did a rant on why the right is so angry despite having everything they want. I think we got proof of the actual answer this week. They’re mad because they can’t “gerrymander” the culture.

The proof? Bad Bunny.

“As long as we obey, everything will be ok.”

You think those goddamn right wingers are mad about too much slavery in museums?

Wait until historians start opening entire new wings dedicated to how a real estate conman and the GOP collapsed one of the world’s most open societies into a dysfunctional fascist clown show.

They’re gonna be pissed.

The two party system is amplifying polarization. It has to end, now.

To stop authoritarianism, the two-party system must go. Is it finally time to break the duopoly?

@prorepcoalition.bsky.social we should talk

This would be FDR level boldness we’re talking about here, but the Republican Party has already shown us that they don’t mind rigging the entire system without our cooperation. Can we discuss?

I think what we’re going to have to do is start a movement to get the Democratic Party to destroy the two party system. People think that we have a two party system, but what they don’t understand is that this system is an emergent effect that comes from a small number of statutory laws.

And that chokepoint I believe is in how the house is apportioned. Now I know what I’m about to say he’s gonna sound far-fetched, but I need somebody like you a lawyer to think about it.

Also, because they’ve corrupted the system, it is now tuned to produce different variants of DJT. What we have to do is find a choke point above the system where we can reset the rules of the game.

But the Republican Party has corrupted so many pieces of the system that it feels like we’re having a fight on all fronts at once and so we are feeling like it’s a death by 1000 cuts.

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It would be like resetting a huge part of the system.

Those are things I think we can deal with at the statutory level. If we can get the house, senate and presidency we can do phase I of ending Republican autocracy. Getting the house and senate would give us a ton of leverage in the meantime.

So I sent you a link to what I shared with Elie Mystal. We have to start a movement to force the democrats to run on smashing the two party system. It’s not set in the constitution. It’s an emergent effect of a handful of laws and choices.

@mdg650hawk.bsky.social I’m a systems thinker. I think we’ve been thinking about this all wrong. The Republicans are flooding the zone with noise that we’re chasing after. So it feels like a death by 1000 cuts. We need to get in a choke point above the rest of the system.

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The “two party system” will be effectively dead. But so will the Republican’s corruption of majority rule.

That’s phase I.

So, expand the house massively. 1000+ Return to the constitutional ratio. Manage virtually. Kill single member districts. Ban gerrymander. Require RCV for federal house rep elections. Enact proportional representation and break the spoiler effect. All statutory.

So they have to disrupt it. They have to do something FDR bold. They have to run on destroying the two party system and then do it statutorily. Everyone hates feeling locked into it. But they don’t realize that it is an emergent effect of a handful of laws. Not a constitutional requirement.

@elienyc.bsky.social Elie I’ll give it to you in a nutshell. The Democratic Party keeps running on bits and pieces of bread and butter policy as if the system works. But the system is permabroken and now tuned to produce variants of DJT.

@profmmurray.bsky.social I’ve seen a couple of ideas that indicate we can disrupt the whole Republican Party’s slide into authoritarianism by restructuring the House of Representatives statutorily. I’m not a lawyer. I’m a systems expert. Would like to share with you.

@jamellebouie.net I listen to you when I walk my dogs. We can disrupt the Republican Party slide into authoritarianism. Can I have your attention for 5 minutes?

@aoc.bsky.social I doubt you’ll see this. But I have to try. I think there’s a way to disrupt the Republican Party’s slide into fascism. If I could just get 5 minutes of your time. Or your staff. We have to change the way we’re thinking about this.

I believe there is a way to disrupt the Republican Party’s slide into authoritarianism. I just need 5 minutes to explain it to a lawyer, or polisci, or progressive who can analyze it. I have reached out to several large platforms but doubt I’ll hear back.

Just a voice in the wilderness.

@chrislhayes.bsky.social I think there’s a way to disrupt the Republican Party’s slide into authoritarianism. Can you give me 5 minutes to explain?

Marc I know this is going to sound crazy. But I think there’s a way to disrupt the Republican’s slide into fascism without dealing with this death by 1000 cuts. Can someone reach out to me directly? I just need 5 minutes or less.

@parkroseperma.bsky.social Angela, I think I have an idea for how to disrupt the Republican Party’s slide into authoritarianism if you’ll give me 5 minutes or less to communicate it with you.