{"id":26602,"date":"2022-12-07T14:23:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T19:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=26602"},"modified":"2022-12-07T14:23:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T19:23:10","slug":"and-they-say-theyre-not-fascists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=26602","title":{"rendered":"And they say they&#8217;re not fascists&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;when you hear the repubs complain when they are called fascists for doing fascist things&#8230;just remember that they have a scheme to ignore voters and just install whoever they want in whatever office that is in the supreme court today&#8230;it&#8217;s called the independent legislature theory and it&#8217;s main tenet is that state legislatures are the only bodies who can set rules for voting in federal or state elections&#8230;and they argue the legislatures can ignore any votes they want&#8230;so dem votes will never be counted in repub controlled states again&#8230;how do you guys feel about that? This crackpot theory that is based on a lie is being argued right now and all of the conservative justices are just drooling that they can help out their repub cronies to just nullify elections they don&#8217;t like&#8230;that&#8217;s not fascist, right? Yeah, in reality that is right out of the fascist playbook on the first page&#8230;.and the only reason it was taken up is alito wanted it so we know it doesn&#8217;t have to have any basis in law, truth, or reality for him to embrace it&#8230;.look, if these guys are allowed to make this legal, this democracy is gone but that is what the repubs want&#8230;they know demographics are slowly dooming them electorally so they have to get the ultimate cheat authorized by the court&#8230;geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;when you hear the repubs complain when they are called fascists for doing fascist things&#8230;just remember that they have a scheme to ignore voters and just install whoever they want in whatever office that is in the supreme court today&#8230;it&#8217;s called the independent legislature theory and it&#8217;s main tenet is that state legislatures are the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=26602\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">And they say they&#8217;re not fascists&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2458,3552],"class_list":["post-26602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-corrupt-supreme-court","tag-independent-legislature-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26603,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26602\/revisions\/26603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}