ABOUT THE VOTE IN NOVEMBER
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Our great patriot, Adam Schiff has stirred the nation’s awareness of how near to the end of The Republic we are.
But for me, Eyeball_Kid’s posts have compelled me to raise a problem for America under a lawless president.
Here’s our problem: our unfounded belief that there will even BE a November election.
Every day, millions of us say, “oh, we’ll remove this guy in November.”
Millions of us assume that MF45 will do nothing to stop that.
What in his past deeds would ever make us think he would not insure his November win? We have no evidence of that. Nothing.
All the more then, do we need to seriously reconsider our assumption that we will retain any voting power. At all.
To ignore that possibility as part of an “October surprise" is to mentally hide from everything we’ve learned about how 45 and Republicans have operated since Reagan.
We have to see what’s in front of us. Right now.
Right now, millions of Americans NOW have to think about the consequences of a Senate acquittal that will go way beyond Trump’s feel-good rallies.
Already setting up their hold on this government, 45, his cabinet, cyber, ground operatives and Republicans can do a lot that’s unseen and unreported in the next ten months. Not only can they wreck the 2020 election, they can force despair and withdrawal of the electorate and Democrats; and they can eliminate future elections altogether. They have come to make us eat, one bite at a time, this dead Republic elephant in the room.
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As Eyeball_Kid and others in recent weeks have pointed out, we first need to really see 45's supporters.
They occupy much bigger space than do gullible voters at 45’s spite/grievance rallies.
At the top space of federal government, Trump’s leadership all support the unitary executive assertions that AG Barr loves. Barr makes the rounds at think tanks, legal foundations and universities to promote that the moral decay of America necessitates a “unified power of the executive.”
At state levels, Republicans all support a "permanent Republican minority-majority" goal, set in motion by Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay in the 1980s, which continue to include
-- gerrymandering,
-- manipulating voting machines,
-- changing voting data in servers, and
-- radio/TV markets saturated with right wing propaganda.
Do not underestimate the Trump Party's awareness — at any of these levels — of what they can do after the Senate acquittal. They’ve been at it for forty years, and more is coming.
As for Trump himself, watch the Senate acquittal, and then watch the threads multiply here over Trump and what his henchmen do with that acquittal in the next ten months. But those posts will miss the larger context.
From Eyeball_Kid (somewhat paraphrased):
Next, we'd BETTER remember the Patriot Act, because it gives Trump the power to manufacture a national security emergency in order to cancel the election. It will be within his power to do so if he sees an election loss looming
If you're thinking that the "manufacturing" part will make it invalid, think again. By the time Congress gets the news, it will already be too late. A dictator doesn't have to wait for approval. Besides, this Acquittal will already have rendered Congressional oversight ignored and impotent.
A real and historic crisis is unfolding RIGHT NOW.
When the Senate acquits, the Constitution dies.
Thank you, Eyeball_Kid, for your "Forbidden Logic" post.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=12889779
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But a fascist dictatorship will roll out hereafter whether we see it or not. Immersed in the last years of ugly news and legal fights, we’ve been only vaguely aware of Putin’s Eurasian Project to destabilize and stigmatize resisting banks, bankers, media, governments and civil rights organizations of the “decadent West.”
More noticeable has been the Republican Fifth Column inside and outside our government that has taken their money, welcomed them into America, enabled their residency, laundered money, hacked Internet (from utility infrastructure levels to grandparents' zombie computers); fake journalist “enemies,” fake news, trolls and all. Hybrid insurgency. For the last six years we’ve read and shared books written about it all.
IF we find that we live UNDER A dictator, it will be because we finally see several components about dictatorship around us:
— We’ll see Barr's and Republicans’ finally settling the issue that this president can do whatever he wants — he will — coequal branches of government hierarchalized, hobbled.
— We’ll see when we take into account that 19.5% of Americans didn't know who they voted for, sold their national inheritance for a mess of pottage, the base.
— We’ll face that the rest of Trump supporters still will never admit their mistake, just double down, arm themselves, and forge ahead to run the American house, dragging along their sunk cost fallacy with them like an old, gimp friend.
Hate it or not, we’ll have to accept how much Trumpers have wanted their corporate christo-fascist nazi government, false prophet president and apocalypse (with fundamentalist Barr's hovering support).
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When we do we will not be shocked, outraged and crazy when authoritarian followers from bottom to top of our land won't mind a suspension of a general election. Obedience has always been easier. It can happen in ten months.
We’ll be in a nation of men, not a nation of constitutional law. Where we’ll hear: No one’s above the law? Nah, that’s all in the past. I’ve got news for you: get used to it.
Under that nation of men, the only civil war will be one that Trump foments. What have been random mass shootings are a preview, a mere click away, from purges that are the first thing a new dictator directs.
But honest elections? Never again. Unless …
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