We've had two years to know that many of the GOP's candidates in mid-term elections are planning to challenge election results they don't like while their party's minions in positions of power have made it harder to vote in many places, and have plans to challenge votes they don't like, especially those from Latino, Asian, and especially African American areas of cities and communities where they know the turnout will be high and the votes won't go their way.
I see a lot of media commentary sounding as if this is something unexpected. They've been telling us this through their mouthpiece, Trump, since before the 2016 election. And they've been doing everything they can, pulling out all the stops, to try and prevent a free and fair election. There is no doubt about that at all, from all of the evidence that has been gathered. What they do requires a response that goes beyond just a high turnout of Democratic voters, something that is a little bit baffling in that voter enthusiasm among Democrats isn't reported to be as high as I think it should be with everything that is going on. Maybe there's more than the mainstream media sees, I hope so. But voting won't be enough.
Don't Give Any Ground or Concede Any Points!
The accusations of "massive voter fraud" in 2020 were based on zero evidence. They had nothing to take to court, which is why they lost every case, and why there were legal penalties levied against Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell. They plant an idea in someone's mind that plays on ignorance and naivete when it comes to how ballots are gathered and counted. Some of the more notorious claims made in 2020, all by people who received a nice chunk of Trump campaign cash for their testimony, were impossible scenarios.
There won't be any evidence of voter fraud in this election either, at least, not by Democrats in states they control. But there will be multiple attempts to suppress voting, already in motion, that will leave Republican election officials open to legal challenges. There are already plans to challenge election results in precincts in Arizona where armed anti-Americans are trying to intimidate people putting mail-in ballots in drop boxes. That's a post election challenge waiting for any Democratic candidate on those ballots to use.
MSNBC's weekend lineup did a good job putting some Democratic members of Congress on the air talking about all of this. It was so reassuring to hear them speak, to know that the party leadership is fully aware of all of the possible cheating and scamming that will occur on behalf of Republicans, especially those endorsed by Trump. It's coming, and we need to be prepared for it.
Someone Explain This to Me
The evidence is clear that January 6th was planned in advance by Trump and his cronies to subvert the Constitution, stop the peaceful transfer of power and set up a dictatorship with him at the helm. Why is there any conversation at all of him running again? Did we not learn anything from the European disaster of the 1930's? Are our laws, and the executive branch's ability to enforce them so weak that there is still speculation about the possibility of Trump escaping justice and getting by with a crime that's a whole lot worse than shooting someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue?
And how can anyone complaining about crime support one of the nation's biggest criminals, and those who were accomplices in committing this crime? Hundreds have been held accountable, though I think most of the penalties for participating in the Trump Insurrection are far too lenient. But the perpetrator of the crime and his minions are still free, and they're acting like nothing is going to happen to them. We've had two years. My patience is running out quickly. It is particularly running out with those who see this, know it is going on and yet are still whining about crime and inflation and wavering over who they're going to vote for.
A vote for a Democrat is a vote against Trump. That's all you need to know when you go into the voting booth. It's a vote for justice and it's a vote against the foreign interference in American Democracy that has been working to bring this country down and grab off their piece of it as a prize.
Wake up! Stop whining. Inflation and crime are side affects of two years of a pandemic and are problems Americans are capable of resolving with good leadership like we have now. We are on the verge of losing what we have, because of our indifference, ignorance, selfish interests and apathy. And we need to become assertive in demanding that those we have put in office do their job, ending the charade of a possible Trump candidacy for the Presidency in 2024. That needs to stop now.
I saw a photo of a couple of ignorant jackasses at a Trump rally with shirts that read, "I'd rather be Russian than Democrat." That says more than they might think it does. As for me, I'd rather be an American than a Republican. And I'm going to do everything I can to save my country.
Are you?
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