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Just about every day you read or hear about some right-winger howling that the 2020 Presidential election was fraudulent. During a recent trip to North Carolina I saw a billboard claiming that Trump had received 120,000,000 votes. HA! HA! A thousand times HA! Joe Biden won the election fair and square – period. No ifs, ands, buts, or whining. Yet polls indicate that around 78% of Republicans believe he didn’t. When Representative Liz Cheney dared to not join the election-fraud stampede, she was all but crucified.<\/p>\n
A recent CNN poll suggests that more than half of US residents believe democracy is under attack in this country. How can actions taken by Republicans be anything but an all-out assault on democracy? Governor Abbott caused enough outrage with his abortion bounty law; now he has made it harder to vote in Texas, which of course hurts members of marginalized communities, who tend to vote Democrat. Republicans are sure making it look as though they mean to gain total control of this country, and the Constitution they claim to venerate be damned unless it can serve their own sinister purposes.<\/p>\n
The GOP is no longer an actual political party – it is an enormous Donald Trump fan club comprising Qanon, Proud Boy, Boogaloo Boi and Oath Keeper bugnuts; racists, misogynists, toadies of the 1%, anti-science trolls, and other assorted jerks. As if that isn’t bad enough, the Mango Menace’s evil influence has apparently oozed into nations around the globe. In Myanmar, the military-backed party lost in a landslide at around the same time Trump was voted out. Like the Trump chumps, they howled about election fraud; and this past February leaders of the legitimately victorious National League for Democracy were arrested, and the military seized power.<\/p>\n
Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro, a Trump admirer whose administration is alleged to be rife with corruption, utterly botched his country’s handling of the Coronavirus pandemic. Currently he is way behind in the polls for next year’s election, and already he is claiming that electronic voting will rig the election against him. Hmmmmmm – sounds a mite familiar. When leftist Pedro Castillo won Peru’s most recent election, his opponent began screaming about fraud.<\/p>\n
We must take this onslaught against democracy in the USA seriously. Anybody who thinks that a coup could never be successful in the United States is whistling in the dark. Nearly a century ago, who would have though that the Weimar Republic would be replaced by one of the most infamous regimes in history? Donald Trump is charismatic, and has millions hypnotized and brainwashed into doing his bidding. Some are even comparing him to Jesus, as with a billboard that appeared briefly in Georgia – and misquoted the Bible. People who are good at appealing and catering to the ignorant masses frequently charm themselves into power, no matter how incompetent their leadership may be. They then use their position to sway hoi polloi<\/em> into obeying their commands, no matter how vile or foolish.<\/p>\n These are, in the words of the ancient Chinese curse, interesting times. VERY interesting times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just about every day you read or hear about some right-winger howling that the 2020 Presidential election was fraudulent. During a recent trip to North Carolina I saw a billboard claiming that Trump had received 120,000,000 votes. HA! HA! A thousand times HA! Joe Biden won the election fair and square – period. No ifs, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}