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=====Why Fox News was created===== | |||
[https://theweek.com/articles/880107/why-fox-news-created WILLIAM FALK NOVEMBER 22, 2019 The Week] | |||
If Fox News had a DNA test, it would trace its origins to the Nixon administration. In 1970, political consultant Roger Ailes and other Nixon aides came up with a plan to create a new TV network that would circumvent existing media and provide "pro-administration" coverage to millions. "People are lazy," the aides explained in a memo. "With television you just sit — watch — listen. The thinking is done for you." Nixon embraced the idea, saying he and his supporters needed "our own news" from a network that would lead "a brutal, vicious attack on the opposition." | |||
=====Lee Atwater Republican Southern Strategy From Gold Water to Trump===== | |||
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT2fsv7xt4E "You start out in 1954 saying niger niger niger but then you get abstract and start saying you want to cut taxes and the by product of that is blacks get hurt worse than whites.] | |||
=====The House Map’s Republican Bias Will Plummet In 2022 — Because Of Gerrymandering===== | |||
[https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-house-maps-republican-bias-will-plummet-in-2022-because-of-gerrymandering by By Nathaniel Rakich and Elena Mejía 3/31/2022 538] | |||
Even in Democrats’ worst-case scenario at this point, the House’s long-standing (we’re talking over 50 years) bias toward Republicans would drastically diminish. That would certainly be historic — but it wouldn’t mean everything is finally hunky-dory with our congressional maps. Some of this increase in balance is thanks to courts striking down Republican gerrymanders in states such as North Carolina, but Democrats achieved this near-parity mostly through gerrymanders of their own in states such as New York and Illinois. The result is an overall national map that looks fair but individual state maps that are anything but. | |||
We have metrics to show this. Efficiency gap is a statistic that attempts to quantify how efficient a map is at converting votes into seats for a given party. For example, a map with an R+10 efficiency gap would be expected to produce 10 percent more Republican-leaning seats than a fair map would. The inventors of efficiency gap proposed a test whereby any map that produces two or more extra House seats for a party should be considered an unconstitutional gerrymander. Under the maps in place for the 2022 elections, seven states flunk that test, and several others come close. | |||
=====The Supreme Court is Ready to Revive a policy to Make Most of Government Unconstitutional===== | |||
[https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/12/3/1999711/-The-Supreme-Court-is-ready-to-revive-a-policy-to-make-most-of-the-government-unconstitutional] | |||
In 2019, four conservative members joined a dissent authored by Neil Gorsuch, who wrote that “the court should revive the dormant nondelegation doctrine.” Samuel Alito authored a separate opinion that also praised the nondelegation doctrine, and wished for an opportunity to make that clear in a case that was not about expanding prosecution of sex offenders. Since then both Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett have joined the nondelegation chorus. | |||
=====Our generation will either renew democracy -- or lose it forever===== | |||
[https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/08/opinions/american-democracy-trump-era-renew-lose-kasparov/index.html by Garry Kasparov Nov 17 2021 CNN] | |||
Because democratic sentiment is weak, the rights to vote and free speech are more vulnerable in my adopted home of America today than at any point in my life. And so I founded the Renew Democracy Initiative with leaders and thinkers from across the political spectrum to push back against America's growing illiberalism -- and to highlight the experiences of those like me, who have been at the forefront of fighting for democracy for decades. | |||
