Please Vote to save America
We have 42 days until the mid-term elections. For America this is our best chance to reduce the likelihood of becoming a fascist dictatorship, run by a minority party. Democrats have a steep hill to climb because of the Republican gerrymandering. This illegal process is slowly being taken apart by the courts but in many places it still exists. This means more Democrats need to vote to offset the effects of unfair redistricting. The fact that it exists demonstrates that Republican are not interested in fairness, nor in the democratic ideal of 'one man, one vote'. They want to hold on to power in the face of the demographic tsunami of people of color who will eventually wash them away. In the past the Republican party was a party of conservative ideas, not fundamentalist christian ideology, white supremacy, male chauvinism, or crazy Ayn Rand economics. It was a party that argued for fewer taxes and smaller government, a completely reasonable point of view and one that balanced ...