Politics Again (still!) · 1:36am Sep 24th, 2020
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/11/what-if-trump-refuses-concede/616424/
Twitter thread pointing out important bits.
This is an article from news source The Atlantic. It's a bit of a slog to read, but has something very VERY unsettling in it. The Trump administration is actively planning to subvert the election. That isn't exaggeration. People involved have talked about it. This twitter thread sums it up far better than I ever could.
The tl;dr version is that the Republicans will have members of the electoral college replaced in swing states by people sympathetic to the cause of keeping Trump in power. They then contest the election results and put pressure on the college to announce their decision regardless of how the population actually voted.
If this doesn't make you angry, it should. This is a very direct attack on the very principles of an elected government that the United States was founded on. I don't care what your political leanings are, if you believe in this country and what it's supposed to stand for, you NEED to be aware of this.
That is the scariest thing I've read in quite some time. I read through the entire thing and now I feel like just keeling over and dying. Might be more pleasant. More and more I feel like getting out of here before we become a failed state. It's insane that we're even having a president say this at all.
"It's not like he's going to become a dictator or something. You Democrats have TDS!" - Many conservatives
We were told we were crazy for thinking Trump could become a dictator, and now here he is doing so much to suppress the vote, giving every indication that he will not accept a loss no matter what, and even floating the idea of delaying the election or running for a third term.