Eroding Democracy

If you love democracy, this is a wake up call. Trump is and has been in the process of destroying all our institutions: sending Attorney Barr to interfere with our judicial system (firing an innocent attorney of the Southern District of New York because Trump didn’t like that he was investigating his associates); setting up his Serial Killer program (holding a mass rally without proper precautions); rescinding our environmental  regulations ( polluting our water and air); destroying the agency that would have dealt with the pandemic early on; and interfering with the separation between the executive branch and other branches of government (breaking laws because he thinks he’s above the law).

Now, as in 2016, Trump, Moscow Mitch with his puppet Republicans Senators and puppet Republican Governors are destroying our voting apparatus. Our democracy guarantees a system for the right to have free and honest voting without discriminating on the basis of race or creed.

Our voting system is being destroyed!  Destroyed!!!

The Republicans are making it harder to vote: fewer days to vote, fewer voting places, harder to get to the voting sites, long lines, five hours or longer to wait to vote, broken and insufficient voting machines (Georgia), limits placed on who can vote (felons thwarted from being re–enfranchised in Florida), withholding voter applications , Gerrymandering, and creating confusing ballots. The Republican Governors can influence their election administrators to rig the election.

In addition, the Trump Administration is asking foreign countries (Russia, China, Ukraine, and Turkey) to help get him elected by finding ‘dirt’ on his opponent. Russia helped Trump get elected in 2016 using social media and crypto technology.

As of this week, Trump chopped the heads off senior officials of the Voice of America which is a tax-funded non-partition agency for Global Media. Michael Pack, an associate of Steve Bannon, is now in control. “This attack is sadly the latest - but not the last – in the Trump administration’s efforts to transform US institutions rooted in the principles of democracy into tools for the president’s own personal agenda.”

In addition to the foul play and lies of Adolph Trump, the pandemic is making it difficult to register voters and to vote. Moscow Mitch and the puppet Republican Senators will not bring up the bill, Voting by Mail or provide a Paper Ballot. Trump has nothing but contempt for the institutions or people who check him and get in his way. He is so desperate that there is no telling how far he will go to destroy our democratic institutions.

This is an emergency call for mass action for democracy or it will be destroyed. We need mass voter registration and mass demonstrations for voting. We could incorporate voter registration into the Black Lives Movement by setting up registration tables and reinforcing the importance of voting.

 The time for action is now!!! 

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