Dictator
What is a dictatorship? According to Wikipedia ...
A dictatorship is a form of government characterized by a single leader or group of leaders and little or no toleration for political pluralism or independent media. According to other definitions, democracies are a form of government in which "those who govern are selected through contested elections"; therefore, dictatorships are "not democracies"
Who wants that kind of government for America? Apparently, the Republican party does, with Trump as their leader. This isn't hyperbole. The Republicans and Trump tried after the last election to overturn the will of the people in various ways, including an insurrection. And now they are trying to enact laws in almost every state that will allow Republican legislatures to overturn future election results - to dismiss the winner of the election and put the loser in power instead.
What this will mean is that we will not be a country where the people choose their leader. We will not be a democracy, we will be a dictatorship. People, even the Democrats in Congress, seem almost oblivious to this. Wake up!
posted by crystal | 12:33 AM
2 Comments:
I am more worried about the laws which enable legislatures to overturn election results than I am about other vote suppression tactics, because there's nothing a voter can do about that.
There is a question in my mind, if legislatures don't accept the presidential results because the R candidate didn't win, would they also call into question down-ticket candidates that did win? Seems like sauce for the goose ought to be sauce for the gander.
Yeah, that was a discrepancy people just ignored. But when people in the government are pushing ideas like that the Italians used satellites to tamper with US voting machines, reason has already left the building.
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