Democrats’ Midterm Messaging

By FRANK LINGO

Folks, If you value women’s reproductive rights, if you need affordable health care, if you want a higher minimum wage, and if you feel we should take care of our environment, there is only one political party working for these issues: the Democrats.

The Republicans are working hard AGAINST all of these issues. They are also making it harder to vote, with new restrictions on mail-in ballots, and closing down many voting places so that citizens will face difficulties like waiting for many hours for the right to vote.

The party of Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower has become a cult that worships Trump. Trump is the only president in America’s history who ever made false claims of widespread fraud. Only Trump has ever incited an insurrection to overthrow the results of a free and fair election. That insurrection threatened the lives of members of Congress, the Vice President and the very life of our democracy.

Most Republicans believe Trump’s lies, even though at least 60 lawsuits brought by Trump’s lawyers were dismissed by judges for having no evidence. Some of those judges who threw out the cases were appointed by Trump.

Lying in politics is nothing new but Trump and his conspiracy freaks took it to an astounding level of ludicrous lies. No claim is too crazy for these cult followers to believe, like claiming that Democrats are cannibals and child sex traffickers.

Trump has gotten away with cheating and lying his whole life. Hundreds of his workers and contractors have had to sue him for theft of services because he refused to pay them. Trump’s University was closed down and forced to pay a $25 million fine for fraud. New York’s Attorney General forced the Trump Foundation to close down and Donald Trump had to publicly admit that he misused $2 million intended for charitable funds for his own political gain.

Now Trump Is busy spreading the Big Lie that the election was stolen from him — and it is tearing America apart. Apparently Trump and his followers care more about putting Trump back in power than about the integrity of our elections. Many of the Republican candidates for state and local offices around the country are committed to declaring Trump the winner next time even if it means overturning the rightful results of the vote.

That is not democracy. That’s dictatorship.

Yes, it can happen here. It almost already did. The midterm elections are vitally important to keep the rabid Trump cultists from controlling our election results. If voting turnout is low and they get their way, there might be no turning back to our traditional peaceful transfer of power.

So it’s not only the usual issues of equality, economy and ecology that are at stake this November. It’s the survival of our system of representative democracy.

The only thing that can pull us back from this precipice of peril is the participation of people who don’t normally show up to vote, especially in non-presidential elections.

Let’s all tell our friends and families that the fate of our country is in their hands.

Frank Lingo, based in Lawrence, Kansas, is a former columnist for the Kansas City Star and author of the novel “Earth Vote.” Email: lingofrank@gmail.com. Website: greenbeat.world

From The Progressive Populist, June 15, 2022


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