From Wallwritings
If you are an American voter and your ballot is not cast by closing time on Tuesday, November 6, you will have missed participating in the most momentous political event of modern times.
Don't just take my word for it. Take the word of President Donald Trump, who has campaigned in rallies across the nation -- to highly partisan crowds -- with the cry that a vote for Republican candidates is a vote for Donald Trump.
It is also a vote for hatred, which Trump has promoted in a steady venomous stream of lies that demonize those in the world who are not White and Christian.
He says of himself, "I am a Nationalist." His devoted followers insert the White because they know how to read and hear, "dog whistles."
This is a man who lies about marchers still a thousand miles away, who seek asylum within the United States. He tells his rallies these marchers are an invading army seeking to destroy us.
His personal house organ, also known as Fox News, joins him by reporting the marchers will bring diseases, some of which have long been eradicated. That was such a provable lie, that even Fox had to quietly acknowledge that leprosy and smallpox no longer exist.
Those who largely ignore politics, do not hear the denials. They hear and feel the fear and hatred their leader wants them to fear.
The mid-term election November 6, is momentous because if both the House of Representatives and the Senate, remain in Republican control, this nation will be led by Trump and a distressingly compliant Republican Congress for two more years.
And if you are still not convinced of the momentousness of this election, turn your attention to New York Timescolumnist Paul Krugman whose warning reached us through his Sunday column with the headline,
"Hate Is on the Ballot Next Week: Don't let the whataboutists and bothsiders tell you it isn't."
Who? You read that right, "the whataboutists and bothsiders," two words we must examine and think about in this momentous election.
Krugman gets right to it:
In America 2018, whataboutism is the last refuge of scoundrels, and bothsidesism is the last refuge of cowards.
In case you hadn't noticed, we're in the midst of a wave of hate crimes. Just in the past few days, bombs were mailed to a number of prominent Democrats, plus CNN. Then, a gunman massacred 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue. Meanwhile, another gunman killed two African-Americans at a Louisville supermarket, after first trying unsuccessfully to break into a black church -- if he had gotten there an hour earlier, we would probably have had another mass murder.
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