I'd call this a set of predictions, but I really think these are certainties at this point. On election day
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I'd call this a set of predictions, but I really think these are certainties at this point. On election day:
* Trump will declare victory
* There will be violence at polling places as "poll watchers" harass poll workers, voters
* there will be reps in Congress who will openly state there was fraud
* regardless of who wins, the racist white Christian nationalist bloc will remain firmly in place (as it has for a long time) -
Allan Haverholmreplied to Robert W. Gehl last edited by
@rwg I regret to fave this toot in agreement. Best wishes from Scandinavia (though you're in Canada now, right? So North American Scandinavia?)
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Robert W. Gehlreplied to Allan Haverholm last edited by [email protected]
Thanks!
Canada is a kind of North American Scandanavia in the fullest sense. Strong social programs (edited!) but a growing reactionary nativist movement
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Robert W. Gehlreplied to Robert W. Gehl last edited by
Regarding my second prediction:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/04/technology/telegram-right-wing-groups-election.html
Ingredients include: a tradition in the US of "poll watching" (read: intimidation at voting sites), free speech absolutist communications channels, and the failure to root out the racist Big Lie that elections are consistently stolen by minorities.
