According to Word Press today is my 16 year anniversary…”
This may be a rehash of what we already know but I do not think it is too much to remind people what is i8n store for this country with the election of 2024…..
Two Republican officials in Arizona got charged for delaying approval of 2022 election results – and GOP state lawmakers vowed to retaliate against the Democratic attorney general who filed the charges.
Rudy Giuliani faces millions in damages for defaming two Georgia election workers in 2020 – and continued to defame them outside the courtroom.
Donald Trump himself is on trial in four jurisdictions, in part because of election subversion – and and gives public speeches on how he intends to take down his political enemies if he wins again.
Such is the dichotomy of American democracy at this moment: attempts to hold election deniers accountable for their actions are met with doubling down and more intense election denial.
Ahead of the 2020 elections, Trump foreshadowed his plan to claim the election was stolen if he lost, which his supporters often explained away as campaign trail bluster. But he and his followers took their election lies farther than many feared, culminating in an attack on the US Capitol. Biden only made it to the White House because of a handful of steadfast Republicans in key states who refused to bow to Trump’s attempts to overthrow Biden’s victory in the vote.
These days, rather than subsiding after a series of bruising losses, adherence to election denialism is now a major flank of the mainstream Republican party. Trump’s most ardent supporters, some of whom now hold public office, have even sought to reclaim the term: they agree they are in fact election deniers, and proud of it. Their continued attempts to undermine elections since, combined with vulnerabilities that haven’t been addressed, mean the US could be in for even worse this time around.
That is, if Trump loses. If he wins, he’s vowed to use the Department of Justice to pursue vengeance against those who tried to hold him accountable. He’s called his political opponents “vermin”, using the language of authoritarian dictators.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/22/us-democracy-threats-2024-elections
Now a little something to help preserve our fragile democracy….
The first step to defending our democracy is learning to differentiate genuine political disagreement from authoritarian behaviors designed to consolidate power and undermine majority rule. Healthy democracy has room for disputes — even ugly, angry fights — on policy, rhetoric, values, politics, candidates, and priorities. But it has no room for authoritarianism.
Only by separating democracy vs. authoritarianism from left vs. right, from progressive vs. conservative, can we learn to police the boundaries of healthy democracy in our own politics, communities, and conversations.
https://protectdemocracy.org/about/democracy-playbook/
There you have a complete political menu…I told you what could be coming and I helped you learn how to protect democracy….I can do little else it is now up to you.
Do something intelligent….VOTE!
I read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”