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The Threat to Democracy Runs Deep, But Mathematics Could Address the Abominable State of Representation and Voting

By Ismar Volić

…es need updating or replacing. From this perspective, there’s no question that ranked choice voting (RCV) is superior to winner-take-all and that we should be using it in all elections. This would encourage participation and increase political diversity. Using popular vote in primaries and presidential elections would give each person a voice and prevent small bases from dictating the outcomes. Congressional and state districts should be larger an…

How 95% of Jewish Israelis Support a ‘Plausible’ Genocide

By Zachary Foster

…” amount of force or “too little” force in Gaza, according to a mid-January 2024 poll. That’s 95% support for a plausible genocide: Image: The International MA Program in Conflict Resolution and Mediation at the Gershon H. Gordon Faculty of Social Sciences, Tel Aviv University Polling data from the Agam Institute suggests that some 60% of Israeli Jews oppose allowing humanitarian aid into Gaza. That is, 60% of Jewish Israelis believe all 2.2 milli…

Don’t Sleep on Trump’s CPAC Speech Calling For ‘The Final Battle’: This was Southern Strategy as Apocalyptic Promise

By Thomas Lecaque

…s, we will cast out the communists. We will throw off the political class that hates our country. They actually hate our country. No walls, no borders, bad elections, no voter ID. We will beat the Democrats. We will route the fake news media. We will expose and appropriately deal with the RINOs. We will evict Joe Biden from the White House. And we will liberate America from these villains and scoundrels once and for all.” QAnon’s argument is here…

2023 CPAC Lived Down to Expectations, But Don’t Buy the Narrative: The GOP is Not as Divided as You Might Think

By Annika Brockschmidt

…ough Ukraine against Russia,” painting NATO as the aggressor and claiming that Biden wants “World War 3”—a theme that Trump would later pick up in his closing speech. Gabbard further declared that Biden and his allies would be on board with WW3, “because they have the bunkers’,” unlike normal folks (like herself). Gabbard wasn’t the only one hostile to the Ukrainian cause of defending their country from the Russian invasion. Kari Lake was one of t…

When Violence is Inevitable: Club Q and the Success of the System

By Heron Greenesmith

…ord “hate” yet. In fact, the only time I use “hate” is in this paragraph. That’s because the “hate” framework allows us to hide systemic oppression behind the inscrutable actions of individuals, of so-called “lone wolves.” It’s as inaccurate to use a framework of “hate” to describe a single person’s actions as it is to use a framework of “environmental friendliness” to describe a single person’s actions. Both frameworks emphasize individualism ove…

‘Brazil’s Trump’ Bolsonaro Lost — But Anti-Democratic Movements Seldom Accept Electoral Defeat

By Craig Johnson

…e US, pay close attention to what happens as it should offer a glimpse of what’s to come in the 2024 Presidential election. The GOP wants what Bolsonaro and his allies in Brazil already have: a country of people prepared for political violence, armed and loyal to their political leader, where abortion is a crime and the rights of minorities are something to laugh at rather than protect. Bolsonaro isn’t “Brazil’s Trump”—he’s a harbinger of the worl…

Michigan Dem Attempts to Resurrect ‘Democrats Don’t Get Religion’ Trope — The Real Question is: Do Dems Get Nonreligion?

By Chrissy Stroop

…iption of a political ideology and not a wildly misleading slogan. And if that’s not offensive enough, she also claims that “faith and freedom are inextricably linked.” Such rhetoric makes Scholten sound more like Republican former senator and attorney general Jeff Sessions, who has on multiple occasions questioned the fitness of nonbelievers for public service, than like a member of a party that is supposed to represent me, an American atheist. O…

Pray Vote Stand 2022 Kicks Off With Some Head-Scratchers on Predictable Topics

By PRA Staff

…coerced abortion cannot be the total banning of abortion care. Data shows that it is in fact coerced pregnancy that traps pregnant people and their children in cycles of poverty and abuse. It is coerced pregnancy that keeps pregnant people from accessing educational and professional opportunities. After the Hard Questions have been answered thusly, Katy Faust, founder of Them Before Us, an anti-LGBT, anti-trans, anti-abortion children’s advocacy o…

Has American Conservatism Abandoned the Christian Right?

By Bradley Onishi

…e and fidelity to a homeland over cosmopolitan ideals.” Hochman concludes that declines in church attendance mean that the influence of the Christian Right has been waning since the end of George W. Bush’s presidency. It’s true that church attendance has decreased over the last decade and a half. Fewer Republicans are members of churches than at the turn of the millennium; and more Americans now identify as “nones,” unaffiliated with any religion….

New Resource for LDS Families with Gay Children Links Acceptance and Health

By Joanna Brooks

…since 2005. When we have visited LGBT youth service centers, we’ve found that the model that emerged in the 1970s was to not engage families, or even to position families as adversarial. Some say, “We don’t talk about families. It’s too painful” for the adolescents. We’ve done surveys hat found a dearth of resources and activities for families with LGBT children. But families are changing, and it is increasingly important to serve LGBT young peop…