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It is not too useful to make bold unsupported claims that the current administration has the power to subvert elections. That just lowers us to their level, an
by rootusrootus 8mo ago
It is not too useful to make bold unsupported claims that the current administration has the power to subvert elections. That just lowers us to their level, and the last thing we need is for a further erosion in confidence in our democratic system. The states run elections, and no matter what Trump says to get people to keep paying attention to him, they don't jump when the president tells them to. The feds have money and nukes, but States have a lot of the actual power.
- vkou 8mo agoHalf the states are actively engaging in voter suppression, and the ones that aren't are under attack on all fronts by the federal government.
- rootusrootus 8mo agoYes, if the states themselves which to subvert their own elections, they definitely have the power to do that. > under attack on all fronts by the federal government That seems hyperbolic. There's a lot of rhetoric, certainly, but executive orders are toothless against the states and they all know it.
- vkou 8mo ago> executive orders are toothless against the states and they all know it. And judicial orders are toothless against the federal government... And the states can't lift a finger against any deployment of federal power against them, whether it's legal or not. What recourse will a swing state in November have against ICE goons being deployed to do Kavanaugh arrests in voter lines?
- ZeroGravitas 8mo agoElon Musk just announced spending 300 million to make it harder to vote. And it didn't even make the headline of the article I read it in. And he's being spreading lies about elections for years. Again, not regularly mentioned even in critical articles about him, because it's so normalized.
- rootusrootus 8mo agoElon is not the federal government, however.
- matthewdgreen 8mo agoIs he working in concert with the current administration on this issue? That's going to be the question with many of these new tech-billionaire/administration collaborations.