The stakes of the 2024 election

Sadly, there is a “bottom line” for the 2024 election, a horrible possibility that we may not have real elections in the future. Instead, Donald Trump wants to make America like Russia, in which it is common knowledge the elections are a farce, despite Putin’s messaging sounded all democratic.

It actually takes work to dispel falsehoods in such an autocrat’s words, but in Russia, the falsity has become obvious over decades, whereas Trump’s words still demand critical thinking and research to prove false.

MAGA accusations of election fraud and the other lies aren’t a trifle.

By June 2019, after initially resisting, many news organizations began to describe some of [Trump’s] falsehoods as “lies”. The Washington Post said his frequent repetition of claims he knew to be false amounted to a campaign based on disinformation. Trump campaign CEO and presidency chief strategist Steve Bannon said that the press, rather than Democrats, was Trump’s primary adversary and “the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit.” (Source.)

So when you head to the polls this November, the only question that really matters is, “Will democracy survive?”

It’s important to keep front of mind that Republicans in Congress are coddling and supporting the dangerous blows to our inspired republican form of government — because they don’t have term limits and all of their wealth and power depends on election success. In contrast, the Republicans who don’t have term limits are willing to publicly oppose Trump and the MAGA religion (see: Romney, McCain, W. Bush, H.W. Bush, Cheney, most surviving members of the Reagan administration, and hundreds of the staffers who worked for these Republicans).

As one of the two duopolistic US parties grapples with having nominated an unpopular top-ticket candidate and policy agenda for at least the last 8 years, and realizes it can’t win on popularity, it begins to take action on things like gerrymandering, rejecting the will of the people, and prepping to procedurally challenge an election before a vote is even cast.

Emails obtained by the Guardian reveal a behind-the-scenes network of county election officials throughout Georgia coordinating on policy and messaging to both call the results of November’s election into question before a single vote is cast, and push rules and procedures favored by the election denial movement. (Source.)

The MAGA agenda is completely un-American. It tastes like Putin’s government. It’s much more similar to Nazi Germany than it is to a Constitutional nation.

Elizabeth Willing Powel: “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?”

Benjamin Franklin: “A republic, if you can keep it.”