I am monumentally tired of fighting. But Iām going to continue to do so for as long as I can.
Right now I am seeing long-time followers attack Kamala Harris and Joe Biden for picking her as a running mate. I know a lot of people look at this duo and see āmore of the same.ā Iāve seen so many intelligent people saying they are not going to vote.
It is absolutely critical that you vote the Biden/Harris ticket. I want you to remember that while you are pointing out the flaws, and here is why.
The current president is literally a fascist. Heās slow-burning, meaning heās slowly moving the goalpost farther right. The only reason heās slow-moving is because the Republican party still has the barest semblance of a conscience. Think of what would have happened if #45 said āwe should delay the election!ā and McConnell said āyeah okay that sounds cool.ā
Do you know how terrifying that is? Because if he got congress to delay the election somehow, there would be no reason to ever have a federal election again. He could just keep delaying it forever.
āBut CK,ā you say. āThe constitution says we canāt delay a presidential election!ā
Checks and balances say a lot of things. Checks and balances say that bills are supposed to be voted on and go to the president for signing or veto. Currently McConnell has found a loophole and just has 400 bills sitting on his desk, ignored.
I want you to keep this in mind: Under fascism, the constitution does not matter. They will find a way around it. Theyāre trying to find ways around amendments, too, poking and prodding at free speech until they can find a way to shut it down.
And if #45 decides he doesnāt want to play anymore, heās got a whole fucking army, and heās just proven that the secret police he has in his employ will do whatever the fuck he says. I need you to recognized that this throwing people in Portland into vans thing wasnāt the ultimate violation of freedom. It was only one step in a massive authoritarian takeover. You cannot trust the secret police to do the right thing and say no. #45 has just proven theyāll listen to him like trained dogs.
He has already started talking about more terms. If he discards the constitution, there will be nothing stopping him from taking them. Heās currently, blatantly trying to rig a free and fair election. This has happened in other countries across the globe, and the same people who are posting āNEVER VOTE FOR BIDENā are the same ones who post things like āJUSTICE FOR _______ā when a despot steals an election.
If the incumbent president wins another term, this will be the last election we have. This will be it. This is how fascism works. This isnāt slippery-slope talk. This isnāt āpotential worst case scenario.ā We are in the middle of the worst case scenario now.
Please. For the sake of the millions of people who will die under #45. For the sake of people who cannot survive another 4+ years. Think of Biden/Harris as a road block. A barricade. Right in the middle of the road. It stops traffic and doesnāt do anything to get people where theyāre going, but at least it stops them from careening off a bridge.
If you never want to have to make this choice again, you have to fight to abolish the USās First-Past-The-Post voting system, but it is TOO LATE to do that now. No third party candidate can win. Study the election results from the last 40 years and youāll see.
Please. Wise up. This is our last chance.
