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North Carolina G.O.P. Moves to Curb Power of New Democratic Governor
Republican lawmakers introduced measures to end the governor’s control over election boards and to require State Senate approval of his cabinet members. By Trip Gabriel.
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That's to be expected.
I live in NC and I despise these power-hungry jerks.
Aaaand they did it. There is no such thing as fair play with these people. It's deception, cheating, abusing their power, over and over and over again. They think that being the opposition means using every dirty trick in the book to oppose whatever the others want to do, instead of raising intelligent objections and offer alternative answers. They play the hell out of the electoral system to maximize their own power and silence the popular will.
And you know what? It works. There's always enough regressive, dogmatic imbeciles to keep these people in power. The only real solution to this problem is education, but of course these guys will do their best to cripple education because ignorant people are easier to manipulate.
It really pisses me off.
It pisses me off as well. They are the reason we can't have nice things.
It's always great to see the legislature of my state having such respect for the law and the will of the people. At least they're spending their time on something other than arguing about which room people should use to take a shit.
Maybe one day their collective IQ will reach 10 and they will realize that there are more important issues to worry about. Like, you know, health, and education, and infrastructure, and so on. Until then I guess they'll keep churning out hateful laws involving other people's genitals and trying to minimize the power of their constituents.