Most people think that the term, "D-day" is unique to the June 6th '44 invasion of France by the Allies. It will always remain associated with that day, but it also was used to denote any invasion by amphibious forces during the Second World War. And, "H-hour" is likewise interchangeable among dates, times etc. The 'D' and the 'H' are just meant to denote that a particular time and date are the ones when it will all go down.
And, here we are. It will be D-day and H-hour tomorrow. And, there is as much riding on this election than there has been at any time in America's past. We are standing at a junction of two paths. The one on the left leads toward a new age of enlightenment, a time in which values such as love., harmony and beauty will serve as guiding lights for how people choose to treat each other.
The one on the 'right' leads toward a deepening darkness and more Donald J. Asshole in the White House. It will be a time in which the Idiot's elevation of such values as hatred and violence are accepted as 'how it is'. And, given that opportunity, he will use it to essentially destroy what remains of our democracy. How do I know this? Because his actions over the last four years and his warnings in his usually non-sensical speeches tell us exactly this.
So, here we are, after the long months, even years, of waiting, we are about to engage in this most quintessentially democratic process of all: an election. And, it hardly needs saying...again....but, without the ability of people to go to the polls--or use alternative means such as absentee voting--and cast a vote in safety, without fear that it will be ignored, invalidated, LOST or otherwise interfered with...a democracy is dead in the water. It cannot be alive and a real means of running a country unless there are fair and honest elections.
AND THAT MEANS EVERY VOTE BY A DULY REGISTERED VOTER MUST BE COUNTED!!!!!!!
You almost certainly know why I am giving that sentence such emphasis. Our ability to have such an election, to freely and honestly express every citizen's choice, is in dire straits. In fact, if you are a person of color, living in a low-income zone of one of America's big urban areas, it's likely that you have already been harassed, blocked, discounted, warned off, made to stand for ridiculous amounts of time, often out in the weather, just to get to vote. The GOPs have done everything in their power, and much that isn't allowed for them to do...yes, illegal...to make it harder for black, Hispanic, and lower income people in general to vote. They have re-arranged districts...so-called 'gerrymandering'...in order to concentrate the lower income groups in outrageously circuitous voting blocks, and maximize the impact of the votes of white and middle-income voters in the suburbs.
Time for him to go......
As obtuse as he is, the Idiot still understands that the only way for him to 'win' another term in office is to cheat. Doing it by means of a fair and honest vote is way beyond his reach at this point. So, they are perfectly willing to break the law and have gotten very good at packing courts with judges who support this approach. They get around the violations with platoons of lawyers who can drag cases against them through the legal system for ages. They also dispute any decision that would support fair and honest voting by people of all ethnic and economic stripes....just to make it more difficult for us 'libtards' who want honest elections.
Now, as we stand on this precipice, ready to spread our wings and make the leap, once again, we have already been forewarned by the Idiot and some of his minions, that they will make having a clean election difficult to impossible. I will not go into describing the various strategies that have been mentioned; that's not what matters right now. Unless there is such an overwhelming margin of victory by democratic voters that it makes questioning it a joke....we should expect every possible sneaky, disruptive and disgusting tactic from them. It's what they do; it's who they are.
What I am hoping to do here today is to remind you just how much is at stake and how dire the situation is. If we can manage to unite under the banner of a common cause, i.e. defeat the Idiot in the White House, and bring together the concerns of wildly diverse groups of citizens, then we can do it. The interests of Black Lives Matter, middle-class white suburbanites, young people who are now aware of how much trouble we're in with a host of things, particularly the environment, Hispanic people, immigrants, LBGTQ Americans, WOMEN IN ALL CATEGORIES....Labor Unions, Health care workers, and every other category I've overlooked.....all of us.....if we can work together and start by making sure every possible vote is cast against the Idiot....then we will have become an unstoppable force and we can soon begin the process of taking back the country.
The people who have drunk the Kool-Aid are not going to change. They have embraced all the qualities that the Idiot brings to the table, you know the list, but being a White Supremacist and a fascist are perhaps the most notable and dire...and this makes them just like their idol, all the despicable qualities he has shown.....are now theirs too. As I have said before: you cannot support a racist and not be one yourself. YOU ARE WHAT YOU DO.
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