Ohio voters just took firm positions on abortion and reproductive rights and adult-use recreational marijuana Tuesday, but gerrymandered Ohio lawmakers are already planning to flout, ignore, challenge, and abuse the voters’ wishes. This is what gerrymandering brings. This is why it’s a fundamental poison in the lifeblood of our republic.
Mere hours after Ohio voters passed the Issue 1 reproductive rights amendment with 56.62%, according to unofficial results, and the Issue 2 recreational marijuana law with 57% (both getting nearly 2.2 million votes), Ohio Republican legislative leaders signaled they would not respect the will of the people.
Maybe this way the people learn that Republicans cannot be trusted with democratic decisions.
Maybe this way the people learn that Republicans cannot be trusted.
FTFY.
When I lived in Arizona, I tried my best to inform people EVERY TIME the state Republicans fought back against voter initiatives (which was nearly every time).
They don’t care. Arizonans even voted recently to make voter initiatives harder to pass
https://www.azcentral.com/elections/results/2022-11-08/state/arizona/
But at least they (barely) voted against the other bill Republicans put on the ballot: That their government be allowed to alter passed voter initiatives.
Fuck Republicans
Maybe this way the people learn
Hey, hope springs eternal, but if we look at past experience and try to guess at what the future will hold…
Like when the people of Florida clearly voted to restore voting rights to people who completed their time in the justice system, and Florida Republicans just said Nah. Fuck the Republicans.
What they did was actually worse than just saying “No.” They said that former felons could get their voting rights back if they paid all their fines. Except, they didn’t provide any way of figuring out what fines you owed. One government official might say you’re good to go, but then you submit your paperwork and they discover a $5.12 fine three counties over and you get arrested on a felony again.
At least with a firm no, former felons would know where they stand. With this system, they technically can vote again, but practically can’t unless they want to risk going back to prison.
Fascist gonna fascism.
Only if we let them. We all gotta vote or they’ll fascism all over the place.
I’m getting genuinely nervous that voting is not going to stop this one. With them lying and switching parties after being voted in, to the judicial system being completely corrupt and stacked, our window is closing fast. It needs to be legal to punch fascist in the face. Intolerance cannot be tolerated.
Isn’t this literally a post about how people voted and its going to be ignored anyway?
Don’t stop at voting. Volunteer to encourage others to vote. Get more involved in local politics. Run for local office.
I don’t not have the time to run but I know my city council woman and I’ve had her sign in my yard twice now. As well as the school board members. They all won reelection this past Tuesday too. I’ve been thinking about becoming a precinct captain but I’m already kind of stretched thin.
Your options are vote or give up and let them do whatever they want. You can be apathetic if you want but I’m not giving up.
Ohio Republican legislative leaders signaled they would not respect the will of the people.
Have they ever?
That’s what cracks me up the most. Republicans can hold a 1 seat majority and act like they were voted in on a tsunami wave of popular approval sent down by the Almighty himself. They’ll use the slightest majority to spin up committees and investigations and will railroad through every appointment or piece of legislation that they can.
But then when voters reject their ideas with an overwhelming majority, then it’s all “democracy is flawed” and “voters can’t be trusted to know what’s best for them.” Bunch of hypocritical bastards.
I genuinely don’t understand how a human could see what they do and think “oh yeah these guys are good, fuck those assholes that care about basic human rights”
For some if it “owns the libs” it’s good. Doesn’t matter if it erodes democracy or not.
It’s this. Many Republicans lack the ability of empathy for other people- especially for people different than them. They can not see things from both sides. They may wonder what happen to democracy when it is gone and be dumfounded when it is their rights being taken away.
