Abrams: It’s No Longer Blue or Red — ‘There Are Authoritarian States and Democracy States’

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Somebody needs to tell this large woman that there are no Democratic states, as the US Constitution dictates all states are guaranteed to have a Republican form of government.

But then the Constitution never really mattered to her, did it?

Abrams: It’s No Longer Blue or Red — ‘There Are Authoritarian States and Democracy States’
Thursday on MS NOW’s “The Weeknight,” author Stacey Abrams said there were no longer blue states and red states.

Instead, she said that there were only “authoritarian states and democracy states.”

Abrams said, “My parents grew up without the Voting Rights Act. My parents were born in 1949. They were in college before the Voting Rights Act passed. And what we have to understand is that there is no longer blue states and red states, there are authoritarian states and democracy states. There are states that do not believe in the right of the people to have a say, who want to aggregate power and foment corruption. And there are states that want to guarantee that in this country we have free and fair elections. We have access to the remedies that democracy is supposed to deliver, and that no matter what goes wrong in one part of the country, that the quality of your citizenship does not depend on your zip code and your geography. I started the Ten Steps campaign because we’ve got to understand that authoritarianism is a political system designed to achieve ideological ends, and the ideological ends intended by this regime do not include most of us.”

She added, “If you believe that Christian nationalism should be the law of the land, if you want pronatalism, where women are relegated to simply serving as vessels for a man’s intention. If you believe that white supremacy should be allowed to diminish the value of everyone else, then you want authoritarian in states to win. But if you believe in democracy as the currency of America, then you want California and New York. You want every state that’s willing to fight back to do so.”
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2026/05/07/abrams-its-no-longer-blue-or-red-there-are-authoritarian-states-and-democracy-states/

[Wingnut]

Another Nacho spitballing the race card like a watermelon seed thru her tooth gap.

[andy58-in-nh]

I see that Abrams tossed out the mandatory Democrat Word of the Month. This month it is "corruption" - nearly every Democrat I've heard in the last week has used it.

But Abrams also lays this curious neologism on us: "pronatalism".

From its use in context, the word appears to refer to the idea that as an important objective of humanity, we ought to encourage women to bear children.

In today's Democrat Party, the single most necessary condition for the long-term survival of our society is apparently a controversial matter.

Otherwise, we get the usual (by now, ritual) false accusations of "authoritarianism", "Christian nationalism" and "white supremacy" as well as the ubiquitous misuse of "democracy", as though it accurately referred to America's chosen form of government.

[Cyber Liberty]

Endomorphic loser says what?

[Smokin Joe]

I suppose the "Democracy states" are, in typical Democrat Orwellian parlance, actually the most totalitarian.

[Bigun]

I see that Abrams tossed out the mandatory Democrat Word of the Month. This month it is "corruption" - nearly every Democrat I've heard in the last week has used it.

But Abrams also lays this curious neologism on us: "pronatalism".

From its use in context, the word appears to refer to the idea that as an important objective of humanity, we ought to encourage women to bear children.

In today's Democrat Party, the single most necessary condition for the long-term survival of our society is apparently a controversial matter.

Otherwise, we get the usual (by now, ritual) false accusations of "authoritarianism", "Christian nationalism" and "white supremacy" as well as the ubiquitous misuse of "democracy", as though it accurately referred to America's chosen form of government.

Joseph Gobbels could have taken lessons from people like her!  Wait! He did! See Edward Bernays

[Luis Gonzalez]

I see that Abrams tossed out the mandatory Democrat Word of the Month. This month it is "corruption" - nearly every Democrat I've heard in the last week has used it.

But Abrams also lays this curious neologism on us: "pronatalism".

From its use in context, the word appears to refer to the idea that as an important objective of humanity, we ought to encourage women to bear children.

In today's Democrat Party, the single most necessary condition for the long-term survival of our society is apparently a controversial matter.

Otherwise, we get the usual (by now, ritual) false accusations of "authoritarianism", "Christian nationalism" and "white supremacy" as well as the ubiquitous misuse of "democracy", as though it accurately referred to America's chosen form of government.

Well said.

[andy58-in-nh]

Joseph Gobbels could have taken lessons from people like her!  Wait! He did! See Edward Bernays

Bernays quite literally wrote the book on propaganda.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Sooner or later she, like kidney stones and rectal blockages, will pass.

Can’t wait.

[verga]

Why does anyone listen to ton o' fun?

[Cyber Liberty]

Why does anyone listen to ton o' fun?

She was cast in Star Trek as the "President of Planet Earth."  Went to her big fat head.

[The_Reader_David]

I suppose the "Democracy states" are, in typical Democrat Orwellian parlance, actually the most totalitarian.

Indeed.  But I'm not sure it's Orwellian.  There is a reason the Founders were suspicious of democracy, and built anti-democratic measures into the Constitution:  the original concept of the Senate as representatives of the States, not the people, the Electoral College, a Supreme Court with life tenure, and the Bill of Rights (as Kevin Williamson described it back when he wrote for National Review Online:  here's a list of things you idiots don't get to vote on).  The knew democracy led to demagogues with what we now call "totalitarian" tendencies rising to the top, and hoped to prevent it.

Unfortunately Woodrow Wilson managed to make, if not the world, at least the United States "safe for democracy".

What *is* Orwellian is calling states that restrain the reach of government so that popular enthusiasms do not translate into tyranny "authoritarian".

[Free Vulcan]

[Bigun]

Indeed.  But I'm not sure it's Orwellian.  There is a reason the Founders were suspicious of democracy, and built anti-democratic measures into the Constitution:  the original concept of the Senate as representatives of the States, not the people, the Electoral College, a Supreme Court with life tenure, and the Bill of Rights (as Kevin Williamson described it back when he wrote for National Review Online:  here's a list of things you idiots don't get to vote on).  The knew democracy led to demagogues with what we not call "totalitarian" tendencies rising to the top, and hoped to prevent it.

Unfortunately Woodrow Wilson managed to make, if not the world, at least the United States "safe for democracy".

What *is* Orwellian is calling states that restrain the reach of government so that popular enthusiasms do not translate into tyranny "authoritarian".

Woodrow Wilson! 

[Wingnut]

She was cast in Star Trek as the "President of Planet Earth."  Went to her big fat head.

The title "POPE" was a blatant ripoff from the Dr Who franchise.

[Cyber Liberty]

The title "POPE" was a blatant ripoff from the Dr Who franchise.

I never saw the episode, it came after when I quit watching the franchise, sometime during Voyager.  It wasn't over politics, it was because the plots got stupid and unbelievable.  I have no idea what Series that ultra-stupid episode with Abrams was in...but we all knew Star Trek was hopelessly Lefty by then. 

Hate to say it, but it's good that Gene Roddenberry and his wife, Majel Barrett had passed by then.

[andy58-in-nh]

Woodrow Wilson! 

Our worst President, ever. Obama is a close second, followed by Buchanan and Biden.   

[Wingnut]

Our worst President, ever. Obama is a close second, followed by Buchanan and Biden.

Need to slip in Jimmah The Peanut somewhere on that list.

[Cyber Liberty]

Need to slip in Jimmah The Peanut somewhere on that list.

He was merely incompetent, which was bad enough.

[Fishrrman]

Abrams:
It’s No Longer Blue or Red — ‘There Are Authoritarian States and Democracy States’

I have to agree with her -- but in a kind of "180 degrees apart" way.
Please take a couple of minutes to read this post I put up over at "that other place", about 14 years ago:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2916861/posts?page=16#16

[mountaineer]

Why did Stacey Abrams come to mind when I saw this:

https://twitter.com/buitengebieden/status/2051896981597937670

[GtHawk]

Our worst President, ever. Obama is a close second, followed by Buchanan and Biden.

When you say Biden, don't you just mean Obama again?

[andy58-in-nh]

When you say Biden, don't you just mean Obama again?

Yeah... I think that Obama's "people" (Susan Rice, Ben Rhodes, Valerie Jarrett, et al.) were clearly running things in the Oval Office while Biden was drooling in his porridge, but that hardly forgives him from public appearances and speeches where he mixed duplicity, confusion and inchoate anger into a toxic stew.

[Phantom]

Sooner or later she, like kidney stones and rectal blockages, will pass.

Can’t wait.

TMI....LOL

[Bigun]

TMI....LOL

Welcome aboard @Phantom I think you'll like it here.

[Wingnut]

Welcome aboard @Phantom I think you'll like it here.

He has been here before.  But he is old and can't remember his password.

[Bigun]

He has been here before.  But he is old and can't remember his password.

Thanks! I have CRS as well.

[Wingnut]

Thanks! I have CRS as well.

It is a burden. 

[Cyber Liberty]

He has been here before.  But he is old and can't remember his password.

Formerly known as @Fantom, I believe....

[Bigun]

Our worst President, ever. Obama is a close second, followed by Buchanan and Biden.

@andy58-in-nh When you have a little time read up on Edward M. House, Woodrow Wilson’s top advisor, and much of America’s recent history starts to make sense. He called the Constitution “grotesque,” picked the original Federal Reserve board, and helped lay the blueprint for subversion and managed decline.

[Phantom]

He has been here before.  But he is old and can't remember his password.

Old my ass, I am 64... you are old. Bigun is ... well, Ill just leave that alone. .

[Phantom]

Formerly known as @Fantom, I believe....

Yep, how about reinstatement me admin... under my real "former" name. ... this one makes me feel Transpretendered named.

[Cyber Liberty]

Yep, how about reinstatement me admin... under my real "former" name. ... this one makes me feel Transpretendered named.

I'll look into it.  I need to be on my main machine!

[Bigun]

Old my ass, I am 64... you are old. Bigun is ... well, Ill just leave that alone. .

Ancient! And proud of it!   

[andy58-in-nh]

@andy58-in-nh When you have a little time read up on Edward M. House, Woodrow Wilson’s top advisor, and much of America’s recent history starts to make sense. He called the Constitution “grotesque,” picked the original Federal Reserve board, and helped lay the blueprint for subversion and managed decline.

@Bigun

Thank you. I am quite familiar with him, actually - initially through the research done by Glenn Beck. In addition to being a lifelong racist, House wrote Philip Dru: Administrator, a virtual paean to collectivism and administrative dictatorship as a virtuous form of government. 

[the OlLine Rebel]

Ah, bucktooth.

They love calling us fascists, without a hint of irony.

Meanwhile, they're the tyrants who insist we must wear seatbelts or be pulled over, helmets for bikes or hunt you down, and use curly-fry lightbulbs and low-flow toilets and give us no choice.

Yet, we're the fascists.

[Bigun]

@Bigun

Thank you. I am quite familiar with him, actually - initially through the research done by Glenn Beck. In addition to being a lifelong racist, House wrote Philip Dru: Administrator, a virtual paean to collectivism and administrative dictatorship as a virtuous form of government.

@andy58-in-nh I suspected that would be the case but one never knows.