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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBiggest criminal plot in American history:
They must be locked up. This is why right wing trolls are so despicable, they agree with these people who wanted to murder Democrats on Jan. 5.
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kentuck
(111,111 posts)...for sure.
dchill
(38,617 posts)...but "Signs point to yes."
Cha
(298,039 posts)Escurumbele
(3,412 posts)that conspiracies are carried out by just a few people.
I wonder what other things have occurred in the USA where people said "impossible that so many people could be involved in that conspiracy", but now we have proof that a lot of people can and will be involved in a conspiracy. I guess it all depends on how big the conspiracy needs to be.
Gore1FL
(21,167 posts)But to your point, that is a hell of a lot of moving parts.
Thinking back, we did hear a lot of things; we just had much less to tie it together. I never thought I'd see anything like this.
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)for the purposes of fraud to a American Election for PRESIDENT ! shit !
Gore1FL
(21,167 posts)monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,817 posts)SpankMe
(2,974 posts)Congress had better fucking get a move on and finish their investigation, release a report with all evidence, data and names - unredacted. Now. It needs to be referred to the DoJ for immediate verification, arrests and indictments. Trials need to begin. Then, Dems need to unify the message and keep the coup on the front pages for as long as they can.
We will likely lose the Senate and House in '22 owing to redistricting, voter-suppression laws, apathetic voters and other Republican bullshit. All these investigations will die on the first day that the next congress convenes.
We don't have time to wait out every detail and every bureaucratic process to complete at it's naturally slow pace.
After '22, we'll still have the DoJ for 2 more years. We have to do as much as we can during that time.
A large group of young people who don't vote was polled. (People between 18 and 26, or something like that.) It wasn't a formal study, but I felt it was fairly valid. The reason a large majority said they don't vote is because registering and casting the ballot itself was too much of a hassle. (Many of these were college students who didn't want to deal with the issues of whether to register at home or at college.) Young people don't want to put in the work to vote. They see it as a cool thing to do "if they have the time" and if it's as easy as checking their Instagram feed. They don't see it as a civic duty worthy of putting in a few hours of work for, or for sacrificing poker night for. They just don't take it seriously.
87 million eligible Americans did not vote in the 2020 election. If those apathetic mother fuckers would take the franchise seriously, the election wouldn't have been close at all in those battleground states.
More than any one policy - the economy, LGBT issues, abortion, Covid - Democrats should be focusing on getting as many people as possible registered (even under the draconian Republican rules) and they need to focus on getting them to the polls. This effort should have started years ago. We can't wait until elections are upon us and then run a few patriotic "get out there and vote!" TV ads.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Liberal In Texas
(13,613 posts)and charged.
samplegirl
(11,525 posts)Hillary in a guillotine by now!