How can a political party that uses tear gas, pepper spray and pepper ball projectiles on the voters win? How can a political party that only represents a tiny minority of wealthy super-citizens win? How can a party that deliberately scuttles a clean energy bonanza in favor of more expensive bills and more pollution win? How can a political party that is just fine with extrajudicial killings, aka murders, win?
Here’s how: 1. Gerrymandered voting districts. 2. No more absentee voting. 3. No more voting by mail. Fewer ballot drop-boxes. 4. More methods of disenfranchising voters. 5. Armed guards at fewer places to vote. 6. Corrupt election officials to enforce the principle that any vote that is not for a Republican candidate is a stolen vote.
Not only can a political party win by these methods, as we’ve seen in Russia, Hungary, and in other dictatorships, it can win a permanent supermajority that never has to worry about elections again — during the short period while they last, that is.
But: Can such a political party conquer the world’s oldest most venerated democratic republic, the United States of America? What say you, Americans? Can they? Will they?
Charles Ashurst, Logan
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