The mass graves in New York. The symbols for the dead on the Capitol lawn.
A look at worldometer.com shows the abysmal performance of the US in managing covid.
Remember how AIDS was "the first virus with civil rights"? Well, by 2020 we had a God-given Constitutional right to transmit covid down as many new chains of infection as we pleased - it was our civil right! No Deep State was going to make us mask or take 5G mind-control vaccine shots. The blood of "patriots" flowed in rivers. Or at least their sputum.
What scares me silly is that the antimask antivax movement, encouraged and amplified by every Reich-wing leader (though Trump clings to "Sir, you gave us the vaccine!), shows their utter contempt for the value of the vote.
This wasn't a matter of losing a few dozen or hundred of their most rabid die-easy fans. We're talking hundreds of thousands of votes lost, lost and not balanced by leftish votes, because the death toll was extremely biased (even if they did their best to spread the death around). There is a truly major implication of this observable, proven fact.
The Reich wing isn't worried about the popular vote. At any level.
On State and local levels, honest poll workers are being driven out in droves by campaigns of harassment. Threats abound. People picketing in front of honest workers' houses. Many election workers quit to protect their families.
At the Federal level, we have Trump's ass-in-the-hole: his judiciary, up to and including his tame Extreme Court. He regularly gets good, even great, news from them. He and his Rethug cronies also know how to game that doddering Electoral College, like in 2016 when Zuckerberg illegally fed troves of data on millions of his users to Cambridge Analytica (smelling of Brexit), who micro-targeted Zuckbook ads in key locations to give us a College education.
Voting machines have been broached and software studied. Every vote must have a paper backup.
The vote is NOT secure. We'll have armed yahoos in tac drag everywhere that it's legal. And scary-looking people everywhere else, recording at the edge of legal restraints. We'll have massive challenges of valid voters just to gum the system.
The vote is NOT secure. We need nuclear numbers. We need to INSISTENTLY ask: what will motivate the third of Americans who think that it is not worth voting to come out and save us from the Fourth Reich?
We need to SECURE the vote. Advertise jail terms for intimidators and harassers. Record the intimidators. Volunteer as poll watchers. Challenge suspicious votes. I have some in mind; people with out-of-state tags who've lived here for years. At best, they're insurance frauds. At worst, they're goebbeling voter frauds. Joseph Goebbels said to accuse your enemies of what you're planning, and we've heard a lot of "rigging" and "fraud" accusations for years - a clear tell.
No hyperbole there about Fourth Reich. The signs are everywhere, it's no secret that fascism is thirsty and confident. They only have to win once; Project 2025 is waiting. We need to listen to that other third of USians and learn what will work to get them to vote against fascism, not just feel superior, call them names, and harangue them. This is too important. Listen to them. Find more allies.
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