The people that would vote against them are either locked up or are finding a way to flee the country or are legally on the voter rolls as “republicans” so that they aren’t arrested and killed.
I don’t know why Americans think their thin veneer of democracy is still around, all republican governors have stated they’ll have extra police and security at polling stations, Musk explicitly stated voting machines were tampered with to get Trump’s win so any state with those voting machines is going to come out for republicans, and Trump is just as likely to launch a literal coup this time if by some magic moment he or whomever he supports manages to lose.
USA person here. I’ve never seen or heard anything about registering as Republican to avoid scrutiny. I understand why, with all the voter rolls being seized, one may be afraid of being a registered Dem; but I don’t believe any such trend currently exists.
I do, however, fully agree with your sentiment. The wide-spread “Midterms” hope-sheeping has led us to sleepwalk into fascism. In these two years that liberals have used for little more than marches with snarky signs, we have normalized the complete erasure of security on our property; encroached upon the First Amendment to make it commercially nonviable; normalized racism, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia; normalized government violence against civilians; and allowed our government to run concentration camps.
If there is a violent reaction to any blue wave, which there may very well be, the Republicans are far more equipped now than they were in 2020/2021. With the inadequacy of the USA populace and every institution—both which have rotted for decades—the only way the USA can be saved is if the alt-right willingly erases itself. I don’t see that happening.
The people that would vote against them are either locked up or are finding a way to flee the country or are legally on the voter rolls as “republicans” so that they aren’t arrested and killed.
I don’t know why Americans think their thin veneer of democracy is still around, all republican governors have stated they’ll have extra police and security at polling stations, Musk explicitly stated voting machines were tampered with to get Trump’s win so any state with those voting machines is going to come out for republicans, and Trump is just as likely to launch a literal coup this time if by some magic moment he or whomever he supports manages to lose.
You don’t vote your way out of fascism.
USA person here. I’ve never seen or heard anything about registering as Republican to avoid scrutiny. I understand why, with all the voter rolls being seized, one may be afraid of being a registered Dem; but I don’t believe any such trend currently exists.
I do, however, fully agree with your sentiment. The wide-spread “Midterms” hope-sheeping has led us to sleepwalk into fascism. In these two years that liberals have used for little more than marches with snarky signs, we have normalized the complete erasure of security on our property; encroached upon the First Amendment to make it commercially nonviable; normalized racism, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia; normalized government violence against civilians; and allowed our government to run concentration camps.
If there is a violent reaction to any blue wave, which there may very well be, the Republicans are far more equipped now than they were in 2020/2021. With the inadequacy of the USA populace and every institution—both which have rotted for decades—the only way the USA can be saved is if the alt-right willingly erases itself. I don’t see that happening.
Did we vote our way into it?