Reprinted from www.michaelmoore.com
Three Simple Steps. Take Them or Else.
The choice couldn't be more clear: We either win big this November by defeating the coup and its Republican enablers or we kiss our democracy goodbye.
On its surface, this shouldn't be hard to do. A record-setting 81 million Americans came out to vote for Joe Biden just 14 months ago 7 million more than those who voted for the defeated former guy. That made this election the seventh of the last eight presidential elections where the Democrat won the most votes from the American people.
That's right. The Republicans have won the popular vote only ONCE since the election of the first Bush in 1988. For the past 34 years the American people have made it abundantly clear that they do not want Republicans running this country. Only voter suppression, gerrymandering and the racist invention called the "electoral college" have given the Right any power at all. WE hold the real power because there are tens of millions more Americans who agree with us, not them.
Women, young adults, and people of color make up more than 70% of the total eligible voters in the U.S. These groups also make up the massive hardcore base of the Democratic Party. In the 2020 election Biden won ¹ 92 percent of the Black vote and 60 percent of the Hispanic vote. Biden also won 55 percent of the women's vote and 61 percent of the young adult vote.
That is now the country we live in, no matter what the pundits say, no matter how many fat white guys I grew up with who now storm the Capitol or threaten to kidnap the governor of Michigan. Their days of holding power are now in catatonic remission they know it, and their current decision to commit literal suicide in their own Berlin bunker of COVID denial and vaccine rejection is one for the history books. Our side never had to learn how to fire a single gun in that "civil war" they told us that was coming. The other side simply chose to die by a thousand Corona blood clots, because suffocating to death was more noble than trusting facts, science, and two hundred million fellow citizens who fought to keep them alive. But we weren't listened to because we got our booster shots, wore our masks, and believed in things like universal health care and other socialist rot.
A look at US President Joe Biden's broken promises Last year, when he was still on the campaign trail, US President Joe Biden made many promises about what he would deliver if ...
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But here's the ugly rub. The Trumpsters have every intention of taking us down with them - and that means Republican victories in the upcoming elections of '22 and '24. Of course, these will be their final victories, just before the last of them occupy the final available ventilator in the last hospital on the last mile in the last town in northernmost Idaho, just a few hundred ironic feet from a country where everyone has a free doctor.
How will the Republicans win in November? They can only pull it off with our help. The best way to help them win is to make sure just enough of the 81 million who put Biden into the White House end up deserting him by staying home on Election Day this November. As many surely will, dejected and demoralized because there will be no promised hike in the minimum wage, no paid family leave, no help with the price of groceries and a complete abandonment of saving the Earth from the catastrophe at hand.
Mr. Biden, the first thing that you must do for us to win in November 2022 is for you to do what you said you'd do in November of 2020!
Here's the recipe for how we can win this year's midterm elections:
1. Biden! Listen up! You must fulfill your campaign promises by doing an end-run around Manchin to give the American people what they need RIGHT NOW!
If the people who voted for you immediately have more money and more help with child care for their kids, if they have more assistance with their aging parents, if they begin paying far less for prescriptions and can go to community college beginning next semester tuition-free, then they will return en masse to the polls in November and elect more Democrats to Congress. Do this NOW, and we can stop the oncoming tsunami of insurrectionists taking seats in Congress next year.
If the problem is Manchin and Sinema, you must consult the ghost of Lyndon Johnson. You'll know what to do. Threats and pork work in our messed up political system. Give them what they want. Yes, they are sticking you and all the rest of us up. They are holding the country hostage. Pay them off and let's get on with it! Do it.
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