understanding what can happen if you don't vote against Trump and the GOP.
It isn't fair to We The People to be lulled into complacency by telling them that there won't be anything that Trump can do to hold power. What a dismay we had when we watched Hillary lose in 2016. We were not prepared for that.
This election, we will understand what Trump is doing, because we are discussing it before hand. People normally have a lag time between "WTF" and "Now what are we gonna do?" Look how fast Trump moved in his first year. It was amazing when almost every day he EO'd his way to what he personally wanted, which was oligarch power behind him. He dished it out in spades.
I don't believe that anyone who cares about their country will be persuaded not to vote just because someone said it "can't happen." Or, we're going to lose, why bother? I think enough of us are absolutely shell-shocked over Trump et al that we will do what we must to get rid of them all. We will not be fooled again.
However, what good is it to tell each other that Trump can't do something because it has not been done before? That's not a place of safety. We will not reach a place of safety until Biden is President and takes over.
I believe that we have all seen how Trump acts, his rants and raves and astounding contempt of the law. This man is a dictator. His personality will not allow him to just say,"Hey I had a good time. See you later." If he loses, he will deny it and head to the stacked SC to pull the election down. Or, he won't permit it to happen in the first place, according to his belief that he will win or not.
This is my opinion, which I am under the impression that DU allows. So, I don't appreciate being told to keep my mouth shut, or to become Pollyanna and spread a false sense of things being right. We are in trouble.
As far as "he can't postpone the election" goes, what makes you think that? His emergency powers arc over all the States, so even if the States want to hold the election, he can simply declare an emergency and invoke his powers. The passage of time to January 21st doesn't mean anything. Then you have to ask, "What will we do now?" We need to know how far we are willing to go to save our country.
We have to understand our military and our police. We have to understand what our neighbors are thinking. We've seen a lot of people haul out their guns and take action based on nothing more than a tweet from this asshole.
I personally think that most of us will just sit back and watch while our country is completely obliterated and turned into Trumplandia. Who here has NOT considered what other country to head out for if Trump wins again? After all, you can't leave this to the last minute.
How do you think the German Jews felt when Hitler did all that? Many of them had to make the decision to leave their country and all their places in the world because they wanted to live, and they had the foresight to extrapolate what would happen to them in the future. So, they did what they had to do.
It does no good to soothe people's raised hackles when common logic can tell them that there is absolutely no truth to the bit about "he can't do it." He CAN do it. He's a man who has studied how to control populations from the most ruthless people the world has ever experienced. All we can do is control our own personal reaction to it and figure out our own best solution.
We are not children. "Everything will be okay" is something you tell your children to get them to sleep at night. It is our duty to keep watch, share information and good ideas just in case something really does go wrong. Yes, we will dance with joy and party hearty when we defeat Trump and the GOP. Then, we can laugh sheepishly and say, "Whew! That was a squeeker!" and go about our business. But, we are not there yet.
Discussion is a good thing. If you read enough, if enough people bring attention to this bit or that bit, a picture emerges. Without this stew pot of information, even if it is not as solid as some would like, we wouldn't know a damned thing. And, that's what they want. That's why one of the very first things that dictators go after is the free press of the country they are taking over.
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