Republicans are deliberately breaking democracy so they can install a dictator

April 14, 2024 GlenAnderson Conservatism and Right Wing, Democracy, Electoral Reforms, Voting Rights (Also see Political Parties and Elections), Examples of Parallax Views, Governmental Abuses, Judicial and Constitutional, Our Current Political Crisis (in addition to Trump and Trumpism), Political Parties and Elections (Also see Democracy ...), Trump and Trumpism (Also see Our Current Political Crisis) 0

This is part of their methodology:  Posted Feb 1, 2024:

Officeholders Under Siege

In recent years, elected officials in local and state governments across the country have faced a barrage of intimidation. A troubling new Brennan Center report compiles national surveys of state legislators and local officeholders, and the results are stark. These threats and attacks have made officials wary of freely interacting with constituents, taking controversial positions, and even continuing in public service at all. Unaddressed, the problem stands to endanger not just individual politicians but the functioning of representative democracy itself.

 

 

Posted Feb 8, 2024: Thom Hartmann’s smart, insightful article:

https://www.rawstory.com/gop-destroying-democracy/?u=14437392a04d8566e40453f88e25537c7faf3fd6a6f5bd014f45a349f9da5267

 

This post from December 5, 2023, lists Trump’s ‘explicit’ threats to end democracy: https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-authoritarian-2666441959/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Dec.5.2023_12.39pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Since the late 1960s Glen Anderson has devoted his life to working as a volunteer for peace, nonviolence, social justice, and progressive political issues. He has worked through many existing organizations and started several. Over the years he has worked especially for such wide-ranging goals as making peace with Vietnam, eliminating nuclear weapons, converting from a military economy to a peacetime economy, abolishing the death penalty, promoting nonviolence at all levels throughout society, and helping people organize and strategize for grassroots movements to solve many kinds of problems. He writes, speaks, and conducts training workshops on a wide variety of topics. Since 1987 he has produced and hosted a one-hour cable TV interview program on many kinds of issues. Since 2017 he has blogged at https://parallaxperspectives.org He lives in Lacey near Olympia WA. You can reach him at (360) 491-9093 glen@parallaxperspectives.org