Found a terrific opinion piece - under the general category of "VOTE, DAMMIT!"
It's from a blog called PCTC - as in "Please Cut The Crap", and it reinforces how critically important it is for EVERYBODY on our side of the aisle to get out and vote, and get out the vote!
Now, if Republicans in Congress don’t have the stones to even address the jailing of small children and the potential for serious economic damage, what makes anyone think a Mueller indictment for obstruction will suddenly change them and make them suddenly think about impeachment in any serious way?
The answer is, of course, they won’t. The current makeup of the Republican Party will never go after one of their own. And while it would seem to make sense that a “president” under indictment might “force” Republicans to do the right thing, there is no evidence to support that. No matter what happens, about three-quarters of the current GOP will kiss Donny’s ample ass because they are scared to death of losing the only base they have left, besides billionaires; uneducated white working-class morons. (And no; Bernie Stans, I do NOT want “the Democrats” to find out what makes them tick and appeal to them. Fuck ’em.)
That is the key to all this, you know. The Republican Party’s “base” is shrinking, and has been for a half-century. Their entire base is “angry white people.” And since white people in this society have nothing to be angry about, we can assume they’re irrational as hell. But because the GOP has alienated every other demographic in this country, it’s all they have left. Which means we on the progressive/reasonable side have all the tools we need to defeat them. We have the numbers.
That really is all we need. And it’s how we get rid of this menace. We simply have to get as many of the reasonable people – meaning the other 75 percent of the population – to show up as is humanly possible. You don’t even have to ensure that they vote Democratic because most people who will show up will vote that way. There are a few facts you should know;
Republicans generally show up to vote at a 90 percent turnout rate. However, since they make up less than a quarter of the electorate, that means 55-60 percent turnout will doom them.
Republicans have never won when their party turnout was below 80 percent.
Democrats always win when turnout is above 55 percent.
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http://pleasecutthecrap.com/we-are-the-ones/
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