The press must get across to American citizens the crucial importance of this election and the dangers of a Trump win. They don’t need to surrender their journalistic independence to do so or be “in the tank” for Biden or anyone else.
It’s now clearer than ever that Trump, if elected, will use the federal government to go after his political rivals and critics, even deploying the military toward that end. His allies are hatching plans to invoke the Insurrection Act on day one.
I have little doubt that the country will end up as some version of Trump’s authoritarian state. The question is the timing.
I actually think that our best chance of avoiding it (in the long run) is another Trump victory. He will make those changes so abruptly that people will react far more strongly than if we slid into an authoritarian state gradually. I mean…think about the possibility of Trump having won in 2020. The DNC would have to accept that they need to nominate a truly progressive candidate, and people would be demanding change immediately. Instead, we’re justifying Biden/Harris again because they’re not Trump.
If he wins again he already has a plan and people working to have the military in the streets to slaughter protesters on day one. He is also planning to arrest/execute anyone that has tried to hold him responsible for anything. If he wins its game over for democracy full stop, he isn’t going to take a chance of going to prison again.
You won’t fight back and this entire site calls anyone who wants to fight back a violent troll so how bout shut the fuck up and do what the fascists tell you to do.
I don’t know what I said that gave you the impression I planned on laying down and letting a wanna-be fascist destroy this whole US experiment. I just think step one of the fight is making sure he does not regain power, and the simplest way to do that is everyone voting for the same opposition candidate. It sucks, but a divided electorate is a numbers game when close to half the US wants to see the other half destroyed (and eventually themselves destroyed - they just can’t see it past the hate for others). They all treat it like its Monday Night Football or some bullshit, “were going to make you cry and drink your tears” and then next season (election) we do it again. Problem is, if Trump wins we both lose because he and his traitors aren’t playing the same game, they mean to blow the whole god damn thing up. He isn’t running on a change of policy, he is running on making the US into Nazi Germany as fast as he can (just like his dad would have wanted).
So no, I’m not going to do what the fascist tells me to do. And I suggest instead of talking shit and going after someone that clearly should be on the same team as you, that your anger would be better directed at those helping the fascists come to power in the first place.
Too late. He’s already normalized this behavior for too many people.
And on top of that, Democrats and liberals have normalized laying down like a bunch of pussies so it will be an easy victory for him.
If Trump won in 2020 we’d never have another real election. That’s the stakes now.
I think they’d rather die.
They literally would. And they will.
And unfortunately, that gives them power in undermining progressives.