Trump’s coup against electoral democracy is far underway. These two resources can protect us.

For a long time – and escalating leading up to the November 2020 election – Trump has been destroying public confidence in elections, lying that vote-by-mail is unworkable, sabotaging the U.S. Postal Service, saying he might ignore the election results and continue ruling the U.S. from the White House, urging his loyal followers to take up arms to violently protect his continuing power, and so forth.

Meanwhile — and also for a long time — Republican-dominated states have been purging from the voting rolls the demographic groups most likely to vote for Democrats (African-Americans, students, poor people, etc.).  They have done many other sleazy things to suppress voter turnout.

It is VERY CLEAR that Trump and the Republicans are actually CONDUCTING A COUP against American democracy and the U.S. Constitution.  The coup will NOT occur on November 3; it is ALREADY FAR UNDERWAY!

Most Democrats are failing to take strong actions.  If we are to protect our nation from the coup, people need to RAPIDLY ORGANIZE a nonviolent movement.  I’m glad George Lakey and other savvy nonviolent organizers are building the movement we need now.

This article is very useful:

https://wagingnonviolence.org/2020/08/plan-prevent-trump-election-coup-research/?fbclid=IwAR3HL2z3jjL0etbZXZvfcJDhY5jLh15ti7duLLHTNdIM-vuPfUenCqi-_MY

I strongly support the efforts of these two resources:

www.ChooseDemocracy.us

www.ProtectTheResults.com

 

I’ll post more information about this on my blog, www.parallaxperspectives.org, especially in the blog’s categories about “Trump,” “Political Parties,” “Democracy”, “Organizing,” and related issues.

 

 

 

 

 

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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