Citing violent threats against election officials and Republican-passed
laws "that empower state legislatures to sabotage their own elections and
overturn the will of their voters," the New York Times Editorial Board
just issued this dire [ [link removed] ]warning:

"Our Republic faces an existential threat from a movement that is willing
to use violence to achieve its ends" and is "openly contemptuous of
democracy."

The Times editors then say that to head off a growing threat of political
violence, "Americans of all stripes who value their self-government must
mobilize at every level -- not simply once every four years but today and
tomorrow and the next day -- to win elections and help protect the basic
functions of democracy."

[ [link removed] ]Thousands of PCCC members have donated to the Democratic Association of
the Secretaries of State -- our ally working to ensure pro-voter,
pro-democracy Democrats win critical Secretary of State elections in
Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, and Michigan. Can you chip in today?

The New York Times editors sympathise that "After four years of chaos,
cruelty and incompetence, culminating in a pandemic and the
once-unthinkable trauma of Jan. 6, most Americans were desperate for some
peace and quiet."

But they insist that "Things are far from normal. Jan 6 is not in the
past; it is every day....The Capitol riot continues in a bloodless,
legalized form that no police officer can arrest and that no prosecutor
can try in court."

In our current environment, the Times warns, "It is regular citizens who
threaten election officials and other public servants, who ask, 'When can
we use the guns?' and who vow to murder politicians who dare to vote their
conscience. It is Republican lawmakers scrambling to make it harder for
people to vote and easier to subvert their will if they do. It is Donald
Trump who continues to stoke the flames of conflict with his rampant lies
and limitless resentments and whose twisted version of reality still
dominates one of the nation’s two major political parties."

The Times editors have this plea: "Above all, we should stop
underestimating the threat facing the country. Countless times over the
past six years, up to and including the events of Jan. 6, Mr. Trump and
his allies openly projected their intent to do something outrageous or
illegal or destructive. Every time, the common response was that they
weren’t serious or that they would never succeed. How many times will we
have to be proved wrong before we take it seriously? The sooner we do, the
sooner we might hope to salvage a democracy that is in grave danger."

[ [link removed] ]Please join thousands of PCCC members who have donated to the
Democratic Association of the Secretaries of State -- our ally working to
win Secretaries of State elections in Arizona, Nevada, Georgia, and
Michigan and protect democracy.

Thanks for being a bold progressive.

-- The PCCC Team ([ [link removed] ]@BoldProgressive)

 

 

 


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