I think we should disenfranchise republicans.
I think we should disenfranchise republicans.
Voting records are public my dudes. Why shouldn’t the democrats be fucking talking about blacklisting every single person who registered as a republican at one point in their life?
Y’all are very pessimistic with electoralism and I am too but I would literally do a critical support for libs if they just threatened it!
The republicans literally tried to overthrow the government on January 6th, that was worse than 9/11 that bitch deserved to be shot.
So many of this country problems if all the white people who predominately support the Republican Party were banned from government jobs, owning property, getting drivers licenses, or voting.
Target the Republican Party and you can get rid of the white peoples institution power. Let them try to do civil war 2 and kill hopefully millions of them with drones striked by trans black indigenous women piloting drones.
Now I really don’t have faith in the dems on being good, but they would be better. I would rather have Mensheviks than fucking fascists.
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Why shouldn’t the democrats be fucking talking about blacklisting every single person who registered as a republican at one point in their life?
Florida Republicans tried a similar stunt a few months back
“The Ultimate Cancel Act,” filed Tuesday by state Sen. Blaise Ingoglia, would require the state’s Division of Elections to “immediately cancel” the filings of any political party whose platform had “previously advocated for, or been in support of, slavery or involuntary servitude.”
None of this is ever taken particularly seriously, as what you're trying to do is superficial at best and infeasible at worst. Electoralism is a release valve for popular energy and denying a bunch of Republicans in a deep blue state (what you'd need to advance such legislation) means diverting all that "Red Wave! We can win this!" exercise of futility into a less well-controlled opposition.
The real disenfranchisement isn't by party, anyway. Its by class (typically via prohibitions on race/religion/age/gender). And that's a technique leveraged by both parties on a national scale anyway. Why pretend to threaten the minority party with disenfranchisement when FPTP voting means they're already functionally disenfranchised? If you really want to undermine the GOP as a movement, just do what most dominant parties do and... don't send their precincts voting machines that work, don't count their votes until the race is functionally decided, don't send them absentee ballots in a timely manner, and don't let them vote early or in convenient locations.
That's what Republicans have been doing in Harris County, bit by bit, for the last six years and its done a real number on Dem participation without ever having to explicitly ban the party.
That would have been quite funny given the Republican party has absolutely advocated for both those things, they simply didn't want slavery expanded.
The nascent 19th century GOP was home to the bulk of the abolitionist movement and hosted a large coalition of black civil rights leaders for decades. It wasn't until Hayes that Republican leadership really surrendered to the Dixiecrats. Even then, you'd periodically see subsequent savvy Republican leverage black support to land a blow on southern democrats. Unfortunately, the most common way to do this was by using lumpen black labor as strikebreakers and scabs, which only exacerbated the racial labor divide.
Whigs certainly advocated for both things. But that party went extinct in 1860. So the modern GOP gets to pretend it didn't happen, in the same way they get to pretend Coastal Woke Elitist Liberals of the modern day wouldn't have been right at home in the GOP of the Lincoln Era.
I know that the GOP had the radical abolitionist faction, but that doesn't change that party policy in the very early years wasn't even for gradual abolition, even if the moderate members were technically not fans of slavery.
party policy in the very early years wasn't even for gradual abolition
Not having a coherent abolitionist policy was what broke the old Whig coalition. But - as crazy as it sounds - the heart of the Republican platform at its inception was abolition of slavery in states where it was already illegal. Thanks to the Fugitive Slave Acts and assorted SCOTUS decisions, liberal Republicans weren't even allowed that much.
That was also enough to send Dixiecrats into such a lather that they imploded into civil war and their own self-destruction.