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Democracy in peril, not Republican voter’s main concern

The NYT writes:

Republican Voters See Democracy in Peril, 

but Saving It Isn’t a Priority

A New York Times/Siena College poll found that other problems have seized voters’ focus — even as many do not trust this year’s election results and are open to anti-democratic candidates.

Clearly, the rot that Trump implanted in the minds of conservatives and some others about stolen elections has sunk in and that false belief will persist. That is just some of the gigantic damage to democracy that Trump and his rotten Republican Party has inflicted on American democracy and society and we still suffer with. America and democracy have been hyper-polarized and grievously wounded by radical right conservatism and its immoral-evil dark free speech Leviathan e.g., Faux News. The open question is whether we will ever recover. Right now, that is not possible.

Voters and poll workers face all-out war at the polls

The NYT writes:

Right-Wing Leaders Mobilize Corps of Election Activists

Officials are prepared for aggressive challenges in midterm elections. “We’re going to adjudicate every battle,” Stephen K. Bannon said.

On the eve of a primary runoff election in June, a Republican candidate for secretary of state of South Carolina sent out a message to his supporters.

“For all of you on the team tomorrow observing the polls, Good Hunting,” Keith Blandford, a candidate who promoted the falsehood that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald J. Trump, wrote on the social media app Telegram. “You know what you are looking for. We have the enemy on their back foot, press the attack.”

The next day, activists fanned out to polling places in Charleston, S.C., demanding to inspect election equipment and to take photographs and video. When election workers denied their requests, some returned with police officers to file reports about broken or missing seals on the machines, according to emails from local officials to the state election commission. There were no broken or missing seals.

There we have it. Radical right Republican politicians and elites see non-Republican voters and honest poll workers as cheats, liars and criminal felons for simply voting. That is an outrageous insult to honest voters and poll workers. That is the kind of anti-democratic poison the Republican Party and most of its candidates openly and undeniably stand for. 

In view of its fulminating attitude and unjustifiable behaviors toward honest non-Republican voters and honest poll workers, is it fair and evidence-based to consider the Republican Party, its candidates and elite supporters to be domestic terrorists? It sure looks that way. 

The GOP has declared all-out war on those of us who are sane, secular and tolerant, and our democracy and our civil liberties. So why can't we respond in self-defense? Or, in the name of comity and turning the other cheek, should we just let the GOP steam roll us into the kleptocratic Christian fascism it so desperately want to impose on all of us?

There’s no steal to stop, but that doesn’t stop self-professed

Republican “patriots” from stopping it anyway

Just look at them, they actually believe the lies and slanders

From the Kleptocrat-in-Chief’s 

kleptocracy is fun files

The NYT writes:

Trump Hotels Charged Secret Service Exorbitant Rates, House Inquiry Finds

The Trump Organization charged the Secret Service up to $1,185 per night for hotel rooms used by agents protecting former President Donald J. Trump and his family, according to documents released on Monday by the House Oversight Committee, forcing a federal agency to pay well above government rates.

The committee released Secret Service records showing more than $1.4 million in payments by the department to Trump properties since Mr. Trump took office in 2017. The committee said that the accounting was incomplete, however, because it did not include payments to Mr. Trump’s foreign properties — where agents accompanied his family repeatedly — and because the records stopped in September 2021.

Once again, kleptocracy is properly seen as as one of the radical right’s core agenda items. No Republican would complain about the Kleptocrat-in-Chief ripping taxpayers off. That is a major agenda item for both the Christian nationalists and the brass knuckles capitalist elites who dominate the morally rotted Republican Party. Those elites very much want to join the endless festival of kleptocracy that awaits them once they have killed democracy, the rule of law, inconvenient truth and our precious civil liberties.

 

The Christians want taxpayers to pay for all Christian church activities and schools. The capitalists what to pay little or no taxes and adhere to few or no regulations. Republican capitalist elites want taxpayers to suffer from the side-effects of cruel, unregulated capitalism. They demand that society and the environment absorb all the risk and damage inherent in being hell-bent on profits with zero social conscience about human or environmental consequences.

In a nutshell, vast wealth for elites at the tippy top is a key part of what both Christian and capitalist Republican elites stand for and what they want. They just might get their wish. The other key part is vast power over average people and all governments, so that little or nothing stands in the way of wealth gushing up to the top elites. They might get that too.