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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI think what the courts are telling us, and quite possibly correctly, is
If America votes fascists into power, don't expect us to save you.
Seems the only option we have is to outvote them.
SoCalDavidS
(9,998 posts)Meanwhile, there is at least 40% of the country that is Batshit Crazy, unwilling to accept reality or reason.
So we're literally starting with a high water mark of 60% that could be considered somewhat sane, and we can't count on that extra 10% to save us, as has been demonstrated. Not to mention the Electoral College, which negates even the semblance of majority rule.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)and who can't. They're telling us all kinds of shit. The America that votes fascists into power, has little to do with the American people.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)into concentration camps and no, the courts didn't save them.
maxrandb
(15,334 posts)I think that we have to change the narrative.
I believe that there are too many people that think, "well, that can't happen here, the courts will step in, the institutions will save us, our fellow citizens would never allow that to happen, look, there's Bob, he's a "good" neighbor and he voted for Donnie Dipshit, blah, blah, blah...."
The problem is convincing the people that don't think it can happen here two very important things
One: Yes, it can, and has happened here.
Two: Once these people get in power, it's too "blanking" late!
Kaleva
(36,309 posts)I certainly wouldn't be if I thought there was a good chance of it happening. Wouldn't want to be posting stuff that could be held against me in some mock trial and that could lead to where I am and who I am.
Crunchy Frog
(26,587 posts)will simply throw out the popular vote and choose their own slates of electors if they don't like the results.
Please note that I am NOT telling people not to vote.