American democracy could be nearing its end [View all]
The Republicans have declared full war on democracy. In every state they control, they are passing voter suppression laws. And they're also passing laws to nullify legal votes and allow their state legislators to decide who won elections. They have no intention of playing by any so-called "rules."
And even in states where they don't control the legislatures, they control enough voting districts to make a difference in the overall outcome.
This is fascism, pure and simple. They have decided that they're going to control the entire federal government after 2024 and I really don't see the Democrats doing much about it. Manchin, and perhaps Sinema, are preventing us from killing the filibuster and leveling the voting playing field. As far as I'm concerned, the only way these two will be forced to change their minds is if they're caught in compromising photos with a goat in a motel room, or some such.
What I'm trying to say here is that we can have the hugest Democratic voter turnout in history, yet still have this election stolen from us.
I hope I'm wrong about all this, but here's my fear. I knew a concentration camp survivor who passed away about 10 years ago. The one thing she repeated to me most often was, "We didn't see it coming." Those words haunt me because there are millions of Americans who believe "It can't happen here." My response to that is "Wake the fuck up. It's happening."
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