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When liars, thugs, criminals and sexual predators take control of our government

If polls are correct about how people will vote in Tuesday's midterm elections, America and democracy, they feel, are doomed. They might be.




By DOUG THOMPSON
November 6, 2022

A lot of people in this embattled America feel a sense of doom approaching in next week’s midterm elections, feeling that electing a large number of election deniers and outright fascists will destroy what little is left of the democracy we once enjoyed.

“If on Tuesday Herschel Walker captures Georgia’s Senate seat or forces a December run-off (if neither he nor the incumbent, Raphael G. Warnock, attain 50 percent), we will know 2022 is Year 6 PAHT (Post-“Access Hollywood” Tape). That tape did not derail its vulgarian star, and a Walker victory will indicate that blinkered partisanship now obliterates all other concerns, including character,” writes conservative, but no longer Republican, columnist George Will.

“This is not my party,” Will told the Federalist Society in 2016 when it appeared the real estate fraud and former TV reality show host would win the GOP nomination for president. He changed his longtime registration as a Republican to “unaffiliated” in Maryland, where he votes.

Washington Post columnist Greg Sargeant agrees that what has happened to the GOP and America is a headlong dash to doom:


Many others echo the same concerns. Maureen Dowd, a longtime friend and columnist for The New York Times notes:

Strong stuff, but many of those in the know say the threats are real and the dangers are already here.

She continues:


Maureen is not exaggerating and she is not alone.

Writes Jamelle Bouie:


Yes, this is how bad things have become. No values, no empathy, no morality, no compassion, and no leadership. Historians often point to the framers of our Constitution to show how the threats of demagogues and those of questionable virtue existed in 1776.

Noted John Dickinson, a Delaware delegate to the Constitutional Convention back then:


In his inaugural address, America’s first president, George Washington, said:


Jamelle Bouie adds:

In my 50+ years as a journalist who covers and writes about politics and government, and worked for a short time within our national government as a political operative and a public servant, I agree.

I never thought I would ever write or feel such a strong reaction to a former president like the disgraced, and criminal, Donald Trump or the Republican Party that employed and paid me well for several years. The combination of Trump and his supporters has destroyed the party and is well on its way to killing off America and the democracy that once drove the land of the free and the home of the brave.

If any of you vote for such people, you are helping destroy our nation and our future.

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How can one be in government and not be sincere about virtue and democracy? Sincerity regarding virtue and democracy go hand and hand. Virtue is not a performance - it comes from the heart and so does upholding democracy.

How long can the fragile pillars and foundations of Democracy withstand the public assaults by so many who once stood by conservative values and convictions??? Has our Democracy decayed in the last 40 years so only a handful of malcontent fascists with bankrupt intellect can push and topple everything into a maelstrom of Darwinian chaos?

Can it happen in America? Those with blinders say it can't. Those with open eyes know it is possible.

Yes

An Oath Keeper thought the Electoral College was a place where politicians 'went to get educated,' defense lawyer says at trial

https://www.businessinsider.com/oat...ial-seditious-conspiracy-capitol-2022-11

When he met Kenneth Harrelson more than a year ago, Geyer said, the Oath Keepers member hardly knew of the institutions or processes involved in the certification of the 2020 election.

"He didn't know there was a House of Representatives and a Senate. He didn't know anything about the Electoral College," Geyer said, adding that Harrelson thought at the time it was a place where "politicians went to get educated or whatever."

BUT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO TRUST THEM TO OVERTURN AN ELECTION BECAUSE ELECTION FRAUD!!

I tend to believe that them that actually believe that a vote was handled poorly should be forced to go to their local counters and watch at the next election everything they do. I don't believe that those who actually believe that the counters cheated after recounts and hand counts are lying, I believe that they have been taken over because they are not particularly bright and need a bit of truth in their lives. Not only that, but, if they change their minds then they should also be available to help with the counts the next time around. The problem with this one, of course, is how does one pick only those who have been lied to. I also suspect that many of them are dedicated to the destruction of America and will say anything they can to help that along.

In the end, I'm no longer sure there is a solution to a growing pile of the mentally flawed.

The verdicts are starting to come in on the Oath Keepers verdicts. The topline verdict: the jury found Elmer Stewart Rhodes and Kelly Meggs guilty on the seditious conspiracy count. The other three defendants - Ken Harrelson, Jessica Watkins, and Thomas Caldwell - were found not guilty on that charge.

All five defendants were found guilty of some kind of obstruction, though not always as part of a conspiracy.

By the way, another conspirator has found an interesting way to invest his remaining time before sentencing:


https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/11/23/brazil-bolsonaro-bannon/

Steve Bannon is advising Bolsonaro on how to overturn the Brazilian election right here, right now, with IMPUNITY.
He's practicing so he can pull it off again next time over here, and I'm sure it would benefit him to have a lot of fascist friends in positions of power in South America.

I thought the plan was to round them up, from Trump to the physical attackers, and send to Ft Jefferson. I am lenient ... I would not shoot by firing squad .... which is what they deserve.

I think Bolsonaro is playing with fire: He's going to end up with Mussolini's end if he tries for a coup.