People are dying because of GOP fascism. We may very well have a great depression which will cause many more deaths and millions to suffer, because of GOP fascism. GOP fascism is our national disease and may very well be the greatest threat the country has ever faced.
Civilization can not survive uncontrolled global warming, and uncontrolled global warming can not be stopped if we lose our democracy and allow a GOP fascist takeover in Nov.
Krugman sounds the alarm bells here.
Wisconsin, in particular, is well on its way toward becoming Hungary on Lake Michigan, as Republicans seek a permanent lock on power.
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What we saw in Wisconsin, in short, was a state party doing whatever it takes to cling to power even if a majority of voters want it out — and a partisan bloc on the Supreme Court backing its efforts. Donald Trump, as usual, said the quiet part out loud: If we expand early voting and voting by mail, “you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again.”
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This November, it’s all too possible that Trump will eke out an Electoral College win thanks to widespread voter suppression. If he does — or even if he wins cleanly — everything we’ve seen suggests that he will use a second term to punish everyone he sees as a domestic enemy, and that his party will back him all the way. That is, America will do a full Hungary.
What if Trump loses? You know what he’ll do: He’ll claim that Joe Biden’s victory was based on voter fraud, that millions of illegal immigrants cast ballots or something like that. Would the Republican Party, and perhaps more important, Fox News, support his refusal to accept reality? What do you think?
Right now there is NOTHING more important than saving our democracy. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers died in the civil war and WWII and thousands more in other fights, to save this Republic so the ideas of freedom and democracy could be spread throughout the world and be preserved for all future generations of Americans. We all must pledge to crawl through broken glass, take whatever risk we must, go to the streets if necessary, in order to make sure the elections in Nov. are free and fair.
The Democrats in Congress MUST attach vote by mail, or extended voting hours, or minimum polling locations… to the COVID-19 business bailout bill that will be making its way through Congress. This is a hill Democrats and all people who want to save our democracy must die on. There can be no compromise that doesn’t assure the country that the GOP fascist cult can’t steal Nov.’s election.
Call your House representative and your Senators and demand that Nov. election protection be included in the next bill, and that no compromise is acceptable without certain protection. Let them know that we will fight to save our democracy!
Ben Franklin: “"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety”
RESIST!
UPDATE: From Clutch Cargo in the comments;
As a convenience for readers, here is contact information for Representatives:
https://www.house.gov/representatives
If you don’t know who your Representative is, look here:
https://ziplook.house.gov/htbin/findrep_house?ZIP=
Contact information for Senators:
https://www.senate.gov/senators/contact