If we don't stop the GOP, we will have no freedoms left

[RAB910]

[MineralMan]

1. GOTV!

[pazzyanne]

3. ...

in EVERY ELECTION!

[DownriverDem]

2. I'm involved

with the Michigan Democratic Party. We are gathering and working hard for the next round of elections.

[dlk]

4. The fascists are here

And they’ve made considerable progress turning our country into something very different.

[Cyrano]

5. They've had a huge propaganda machine for decades.

We've done nothing to try to match it. Many (most?) of us believe that truth will out. Hard to hold onto that believe against their ongoing tsunami of lies and alternative reality.

The bottom line is that we don't know how to fight thugs who have no conscience and are willing to commit any atrocity to win/steal power, and hold onto it.

[NoMoreRepugs]

8. Totally agree. They cannot be reasoned with, they refuse to negotiate

for the good of all and they absolutely do not follow any moral compass. The Kumbaya’ers (sp?) who think otherwise do so at the peril of all of us. They must be defeated in elections or it’s going to come down to a giant altercation one day IMO.

[RAB910]

10. Yes! That propaganda machine has done terrible damage to our nation

[hadEnuf]

13. This. 1000% this.

There are multi-billion dollar propaganda machines flooding into every home, car radio and computer in the country with little to no competition or push back. This needed to be dealt with decades ago. I'm not sure how we are going to deal with it at this point.

We either need media conduct laws or a "Fox type" platform for Democratic views.

[live love laugh]

6. STOP GOP!

[FoxNewsSucks]

7. Party of "freeeedom"...party of "family values"...

"law & order".

The list of hypocrisies has no end. This is such a gullible, stupid country.

[hydrolastic]

9. Yes the vote needs to be gotten out but also the culture needs to be changed

At work in my shop I drive out of the city. Most of the guys drive in from rural areas. in big diesel powered trucks BTW. On the break room table are magazines with women holding firearms. One guy is a air pistol fan and proudly argues with the others about how his legal version of a firearm is just as deadly as theirs. Almost all of them proclaim to know sections of the second amendment by heart. They trade and talk about the various reasons they own different firearms. Most own several firearms. All of them including a woman spout various forms of simplistic political theories.
A few months ago when Biden didn't give the Ukrainians certain weapons they were going on about how we need to give them cruise missiles so they could hit Moscow. "That would show Moscow who is boss!"
It about an emboldened out of control party. Its literally a culture that is embedded into the rural areas.
Just my experience as a whole. One day the woman was thinking she was being clever asked about the various trials she didn't understand. The conversation ended when after I had explained that there are several investigations and that the juries will decide the cases she asked. How do you know the jurors are not bought off?.
I don't know how to get the culture changed. I do know you can't challenge them. It always ends up in a escalated non informed argument. I wish I knew where it came from but they deny watching fox news and point to the fact that they get the news from yahoo or other news services. I believe its the basic Republican party that is corrupted. The compassion for people is missing, its about money and power!

[Snoopy 7]

11. Only one way

The voters in their gerrymandered districts either don't vote for them or not vote at all. This would mean the Democratic runner would win. People insist on voting so then they must vote for the other party. Once the Democratic runner wins start de-gerrymandering the districts.

[Hortensis]

12. :) Overstated, but we will stop the Republicans. With their active assistance.

[Orrex]

14. The only freedom that Reichwing KKKultists care about is the RKBA

With a tepid nod toward freedom of their religion, but of course gunz!gunz!gunz! make up a big portion of their religion, so it amounts to more or less the same thing.

[dchill]

15. It appears that they're trying real hard to stop themselves.

But I do take your message to heart.

[Trust_Reality]

16. Huh?

[dchill]

17. Was I talking to you?

[Trust_Reality]

18. It seems Republicans want women in this country to live like women in Iran.