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shockey80

(4,379 posts) Thu Jun 21, 2018, 09:16 AM Jun 2018

For the 1st time in our lifetimes an election will decide if we keep our democracy.

Some people may think I am over reacting, but consider this. If the American people vote to keep the Republicans in control of congress, that will be a mandate for everything Trump has done. Including kidnapping kids. Trump will take it as a mandate. He will be emboldened and he will become worse than he is now. He will destroy the rule of law, he would try to end the investigation. He would attempt to become a king.

Trump is no Hitler, but he is using his playbook.

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For the 1st time in our lifetimes an election will decide if we keep our democracy. (Original Post) shockey80 Jun 2018 OP

trump has the potential to do more damage than hitler AlexSFCA Jun 2018 #1

Bush the Meaner was in the process of putting WhiteTara Jun 2018 #2

The same thing was said in 2012 and 2004 mythology Jun 2018 #3

I don't think you are over reacting even a tiny bit. CanonRay Jun 2018 #4

Think every election has been deciding that, a little at a time. Orsino Jun 2018 #5

But are the American people deciding? Voter suppression, gerrymandering, stopbush Jun 2018 #6

Every day is a decision if we keep our democracy, the election is just a 'bigger day' ck4829 Jun 2018 #7

AlexSFCA

(6,139 posts)

1. trump has the potential to do more damage than hitler

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Thu Jun 21, 2018, 09:41 AM

Jun 2018

WhiteTara

(29,739 posts)

2. Bush the Meaner was in the process of putting

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Thu Jun 21, 2018, 09:44 AM

Jun 2018

his shadow government in place when Clinton won. That was very close to losing our democracy right there. This is not the first crisis we have gone through, but it might be the last.

mythology

(9,527 posts)

3. The same thing was said in 2012 and 2004

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Thu Jun 21, 2018, 09:46 AM

Jun 2018

Our democracy is stronger than people think.

CanonRay

(14,148 posts)

4. I don't think you are over reacting even a tiny bit.

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Thu Jun 21, 2018, 10:22 AM

Jun 2018

Orsino

(37,428 posts)

5. Think every election has been deciding that, a little at a time.

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Thu Jun 21, 2018, 10:27 AM

Jun 2018

We keep deciding "yes, but" and goofing around with too many elective offices, and here we are, nearer to or right on a tipping point.

stopbush

(24,401 posts)

6. But are the American people deciding? Voter suppression, gerrymandering,

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Thu Jun 21, 2018, 10:36 AM

Jun 2018

foreign interference in our elections.

We’ve reached the tipping point. When the D candidate needs to pull 6-10% more votes to beat their R opponent in gerrymandered districts, what is deciding the result? When hundreds of thousands of voters show up at the polls and their names have been purged from the voter rolls, who is deciding? When the Rs collude with the Russians to win elections, who is deciding? When the SCOTUS hands down decisions that favor one political party over another, who is deciding?

ck4829

(35,097 posts)

7. Every day is a decision if we keep our democracy, the election is just a 'bigger day'

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Thu Jun 21, 2018, 10:38 AM

Jun 2018

https://www.aeinstein.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/FDTD.pdf

Read it, find ways to apply it to our political situation, and share it.

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