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'How You Can Stop America's Slide Toward Tyranny,' Robert Reich
'How You Can Stop Americas Slide Toward Tyranny. This is our chance to change our nations terrifying course.' By Robert Reich, Common Dreams, Oct. 8, 2020.
Without a shred of evidence, Trump claims that mail-in ballots are rife with fraud. Rubbish. Mail-in ballots, also called absentee ballots, have been used for years across America. They have proven safe and secure.
Even the right-wing Heritage Foundation, after examining 36 years of mail-in ballots, found only 1,285 cases of voter fraud out of nearly two billion votes cast a rate of .0000007 percent. Thats about the same probability of being hit by an asteroid. Or to put it another way, you are 10.5 times MORE likely to be struck by lightning than for anyone to commit voter fraud.
Trump is raising doubts about mail-in ballots during this pandemic when no one should have to choose between their health and their right to vote because Trump is intent on contesting this election if he loses, and he knows that polls are showing him trailing Joe Biden.
Trump even refuses to commit to a peaceful transition of power. He claimed, the only way were going to lose this election is if the election is rigged.
Hes also threatening to have states that he loses declare the votes invalid and certify their own slate of Trump electors in January.
His consigliere Roger Stone urges him to declare martial law if he loses. Michael Caputo, assistant secretary of public affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services, warns the shooting will begin when Trump refuses to stand down. And the white supremacist Proud Boys have already taken Trumps words from the debate, stand down and stand by, as a signal to stoke violence in the coming weeks.
Never before in the history of our country has a presidential candidate suggested he wouldnt abide by the results of an election. Never before has a candidate refused to commit to a peaceful transition of power the hallmark of our democracy. This alone makes him unfit to serve a second term.
What can the rest of us do? We need a blow-out election a vast wave of Joe Biden voters that will make it almost impossible for Trump to claim hes the winner.
Heres what you can do right now to make it happen, at MoveOn.org/ActNow:
1) Check your registration, and read over your states rules and deadlines for voting by mail, and in person.
2) Make a plan to vote. There are many options for how to cast your ballot this year, so make sure you know exactly how and when youre going to vote...
More, https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/10/08/how-you-can-stop-americas-slide-toward-tyranny
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'How You Can Stop America's Slide Toward Tyranny,' Robert Reich (Original Post)
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(22,144 posts)1. I'm there, ready to vote!
What can the rest of us do? We need a blow-out election a vast wave of Joe Biden voters that will make it almost impossible for Trump to claim hes the winner.