• cattywampas@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    What kind of midterm coup are we talking and how will it be implemented?

    Have you signed up to be a poll worker yet? Are you running for something? Are you organizing for your candidates if you’re not running? What else is your plan besides voting, if you plan to vote at all?

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      3 days ago

      What kind of midterm coup are we talking and how will it be implemented?

      I mean, really anything from putting ICE in polling stations to arresting Enemies of the State™ to manufacturing a crisis and using the Insurrection Act. It’s Netanyahu syndrome; if Trump is ever out of power he might actually get thrown in jail for his various crimes, and of course he wants absolute power and this is his last chance to get it. Therefore the question is who or what will stop him, and you’ve seen how the non-far right political leadership has been these last two years. Now my point isn’t that it’s all hopeless and there’s no point in trying, but that the mode and intensity of trying will have to rise up a few notches for the whole protecting democracy thing to work.

      Have you signed up to be a poll worker yet? Are you running for something? Are you organizing for your candidates if you’re not running? What else is your plan besides voting, if you plan to vote at all?

      Does being born on the other side of the world count?