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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1438453
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1438453
If no arrests and prosecutions are made this will only get worse. Having a law that is not enforced is worse than having no law.
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KKK 2.0, now at a voting site near you!
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election-related intimidation and violence
Violence is the inevitable result of intimidation.
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The people behind this want power, not governance.
Rule, not Democracy
Division, not Cooperation
Money from All of Us…
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I notice that the one thing the R’s will always vote to fund with tax dollars is the defense budget, which involves so much corporate profiteering.
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From what I have seen on TV, read and heard these armed cowards at voting sites know most voters are not armed and they are Republicans.
Pure Trump by ruling by intimidation but not having the slightest idea what kind of government Trump and his kind would install.
Mindless fools!
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A post of mine from another thread
["Since TPM won’t do it, it behooves us to feature as many items of Democrats working toward winning this election as possible…it will change the tenor of many a thread.
And three days PLUS Election Day does not mean “it’s OVER”…What it DOES mean is pundits not wanting to predict the wrong thing."]
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A guy prays to God every night to win the lottery. He does it for 20 years and nothing happens. One night, God appears and says, “I’ve heard your prayers. But can you meet me halfway and buy a ticket?”
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I wonder how much of this will backfire with non-MAGA Republican voters (if there are any left) and Independents who might lean Republican.
Unless the intimidators are checking for bumper stickers on cars as they drive up, or very good at evaluating clothing (Birkenstocks = libtard) they don’t know how the voters lined up at the polls are going to vote. It could piss off at least a segment of the less crazy conservative voters.
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The only thing I find reassuring as we come in for a terrified landing on November 8th is that it can’t possibly be as bad as I can imagine.
At least, I don’t think so. …
I am done doom-scrolling until the election is over. Somewhere toward the end of next week, I will come back out of my bomb shelter to look around and see what is left of democracy here in AZ.
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Now THAT is a direct observation from a campaign worker.
The Oppo wants us to defeat ourselves with pessimism
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Oooooh! Big Man (with a gun).
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Overall**we are the most clueless Party in History with regard to knowing how to deal with young people.
LONG AGO, billions should have been poured into animating young voters.
** I have seen some masters at their craft, but, overall we suck at this, when juxtaposed with the GOP skill in animating THEIR voters
We have four days to Learn
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Well, yes. Pretty much right on. 
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Maybe Dem voters simply cannot be animated in the same way. Do you really think a leftwing Charlie Kirk could be as successful? If it wasn’t going to be AOC, who would it be?
And what do you do about the media? Messaging only goes so far when you don’t have a willing medium.
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Yeah like libs who condescendingly dis Greta for being 19 without any consideration for what she’s saying and who she is saying it to.
Libs can be their own worst enemy.
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I’m not sure throwing money at that problem would be productive. Young people have many distractions, and politics doesn’t affect them that much because they don’t yet have kids, a steady job, and a mortgage. An issue they might care about like abortion rights is less immediate until they’re actually pregnant, so it’s somewhat abstract. There is nothing as immediate as the military draft for the Vietnam War to focus their minds like there was in my day.
The best way to get more young people to vote – and unfortunately it isn’t practical yet – would be a secure E-voting system. If the 18 to 25 crowd could vote on their phones, they’d all vote.
Meanwhile I’m thinking they might surprise us this time and vote more than expected. At least they’re better informed about what’s going on in the world around them than in the past. They can’t avoid it.
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Note that I said “long ago” (meaning a well-developed plan)
Note that I said “billions” (meaning the above)
note that I said “billions” (the media is much better than what passes for it in most countries)**
**it can be worked around
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If they win, they lose: A victory by the GOP will have them act out in such astonishing ways that in 2 short years they will defile the idea of Conservatism forever. A win in the midterms gives the whole GOP to the Freedom Caucus.
If they lose, they lose: The whole MAGA movement has been running on pure righteousness for over 2 years. There is not enough energy left to get them through 2024 if they lose now. Or money - these are not very rich people.
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