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The Call To "Nationalize" Elections Highlights How Americans Cannot Simply "Vote Their Way Out" Of An Abusive System, And Reminds Us That "Might Makes Right" Is Becoming the New True Doctrine
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Pryme
Everything that the United States of America does abroad will eventually make it home. Every foreign policy is just a domestic policy being tested in another country. Just for the sake of context, we have BreakThrough News (via Brian Becker and Professor Richard Wolff) and Due Dissidence discussing President Trump's idea that Republicans should essentially be controlling the election process for the 2026 midterms: There are already ways in place to make sure that actual citizens vote. And just to address the hypocrisy of the group advocating bringing a suitcase full of documents with you to vote in a two-party system: these same people, whenever there is a school shooting are so quick to dismiss calls for gun legislation by saying, "just enforce the laws on the books." Why, oh why, can't we use that same logic for voter registration? Anyway, I have to stress that this ploy reinforces the theory that the those in power will not allow the system they've benefitted ...