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The Legal GOP Plan to Destroy Democracy in the U.S.

The Legal GOP Plan to Destroy Democracy in the U.S.

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No need to read. Just sit back and watch the video.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/21/opinion/republicans-democracy-elections-bannon.html?smid=url-share

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@phranny said
No need to read. Just sit back and watch the video.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/21/opinion/republicans-democracy-elections-bannon.html?smid=url-share
Gotta pay to get on the site.
Are you some kind of shill?

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@jj-adams said
Gotta pay to get on the site.
Are you some kind of shill?
Like most periodicals, I thought the NYT's offered a limited number of free articles a month. Unfortunately, since it is a video, I don't think I can cut and paste.

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@jj-adams said
Gotta pay to get on the site.
Are you some kind of shill?
This is a prelude to the video.
"For the past two years, Americans have been overwhelmed by a deluge of headlines suggesting democracy in the United States is under threat: Voter suppression. A shortage of drop boxes. Election deniers seeking key state offices. It can be difficult to gauge what stories suggest a truly terrifying threat to democracy, and which are simply disheartening or even petty. The Opinion Video film above aims to unpack one of the most dire threats to democracy, which includes a sophisticated plot to control not only who can vote, but which votes get counted.

One thing is certain: The 2020 race was not stolen. But Mr. Trump and his Republican enablers have been working to rig future elections to their advantage. (Of course it’s the people shrieking most loudly about fraud that you really need to watch.) The former president has convinced his followers that the electoral system has been so corrupted that the only way to save America is for MAGA patriots to take over the system to ensure that the “right” candidates win going forward. His allies have been busy engineering such a legal takeover, and key pieces of the plan are already in place." If you can watch the video, please do.

In this short film, we shine a light on those machinations, so that those who care about democracy can act to stop them.

For our Democracy to survive, we need to agree on a shared reality and for the losers — that is those who lose in honest and fair elections — to accept defeat.

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@vivify said
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Thanks for posting.

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Here's what I know about cheating in recent elections:

In 2016, Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee were caught cheating Bernie Sanders out of his rightful claim to be the Democratic candidate for President.,

In 2020, the Democrats were *suspected* of mass cheating in purple states (which may not be true) but I never heard the Republicans be *suspected*of mass cheating in same.

It has long been a tactic of the Democratic party to accuse the opposition of doing exactly what the Democrats themselves are doing. Call it a clever disguise.

In short, watch out for the democrats, they have been using the dead person vote and the mail-in ballot to cheat for a long long time.

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