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'Nightmare Scenario': Sanders Warns Nation That Trump Is Laying Groundwork for Election Result Mayhem
"Trump is now using his lies and misinformation to sow confusion and chaos in the election process and undermine American democracy," says the Vermont senator.
Warning of the very real chance of a "nightmare scenario" in which President Donald Trump misleads the American people over the results of the November election—or refuses to leave office voluntarily if voted out—Sen. Bernie Sanders is raising the alarm and mobilizing his army of supporters to be aware of just how dangerous a game the president is now playing.
"What we have got to do in the next two months is to alert the American people about what that nightmarish scenario might look like in order to prepare them for that possibility and talk about what we do if that happens."
—Sen. Bernie SandersIn an interview with Politico and an email sent to his massive email list Friday, Sanders suggested that too many news organizations, social media companies, and lawmakers—in addition to the broader public—remain unaware of the manner in which Trump is laying the groundwork for a potentially devastating series of events.
"Trump is now using his lies and misinformation to sow confusion and chaos in the election process and undermine American democracy," stated in the email, sent to millions of his supporters on Friday. "In other words, he does not intend to accept the results of the election if he loses and leave office voluntarily. This is not just a 'constitutional crisis.' This is a threat to everything this country stands for."
More: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2...ation-trump-laying-groundwork-election-result
"Trump is now using his lies and misinformation to sow confusion and chaos in the election process and undermine American democracy," says the Vermont senator.
Warning of the very real chance of a "nightmare scenario" in which President Donald Trump misleads the American people over the results of the November election—or refuses to leave office voluntarily if voted out—Sen. Bernie Sanders is raising the alarm and mobilizing his army of supporters to be aware of just how dangerous a game the president is now playing.
"What we have got to do in the next two months is to alert the American people about what that nightmarish scenario might look like in order to prepare them for that possibility and talk about what we do if that happens."
—Sen. Bernie SandersIn an interview with Politico and an email sent to his massive email list Friday, Sanders suggested that too many news organizations, social media companies, and lawmakers—in addition to the broader public—remain unaware of the manner in which Trump is laying the groundwork for a potentially devastating series of events.
"Trump is now using his lies and misinformation to sow confusion and chaos in the election process and undermine American democracy," stated in the email, sent to millions of his supporters on Friday. "In other words, he does not intend to accept the results of the election if he loses and leave office voluntarily. This is not just a 'constitutional crisis.' This is a threat to everything this country stands for."
More: https://www.commondreams.org/news/2...ation-trump-laying-groundwork-election-result
And you are a moron. Some day you will have to pull yer head out of yer ass and see what is really going on.
Yes the left is trying to take control of your life . Actually they have been controlling you for years . And all this time you thought you were fighting the Man , when in fact you are fighting for the Man . But relax Cliffy it will be your man with his boot on your neck . Great eh ?
Sanders is right. It is obvious to anyone that trump is already creating a questionable election......so he can claim it is not legit........and he can pronounce himself the winner and sty in office. How can So many be so blind?? OR.......do they actually endorse and support his conduct........and not care HOW he wins.......just that he does?? Poor America has really gone downhill ..........if that is the case.
I often wonder just when the Germans actually REALIZED that they had elected a monster for leadership.. But then there are those today that would still support that racist psycho. ( Hitler was severely Bi polar.) His delusions of grandeur were a kin to trumps.........when it came to power and inflated sense of self importance.
I'm afraid I disagree. I don't think anybody is blind to what he really is.
Simple fact is that about 1/3 of the American electorate is fine with being part of a fascist state, as long as they're in the privileged class.
Responsible, adult, modern governance is a difficult and frustrating task. It never changes, and times when everybody or at least a large majority can point to something and say "That was a good thing. We did well there" are rare. You almost never get more than half of what you wanted, and what you have to give up to get that stings. You rarely get to vote for somebody you truly want in office, it usually comes down to "well, better than that other asshole."
Not at all surprising that it's simply beyond most people.
interesting....and probably a realistic perspective . So if that many are fine with what is going on.......... in knowing and aware state of consciousness.......... what does it say about the whole idea of democracy?/...........beside the fact it is very fragile.
I stand corrected. I had probably hoped they were not aware........... or blind to the current reality. What you pose is more grounded in reality.
Begs the question : How do you explain that dynamic?? Do some need more imposed structure ?? Does democracy demand too much responsible thinking and behavior??
Both Canada and the US are democracies...
But only until the leader of the party takes office...
Then it turns into a dictatorship!
But only until the leader of the party takes office...
Then it turns into a dictatorship!
Seeing regulations requiring US hospitals to break down health care billing beginning in 2021. About time someone asked for it. 80% of US healthcare paid for by taxpayers.
Allow me to amend, or at least explain, one point. Many of them are blind, as you say, but it is because they have willfully blinded themselves. You see it in the MAGAhat rationalizations: "He didn't mean it." "That's just the way he speaks." "Take him seriously but not literally."
Trump has offered them their choice of 1954, 1910, or 1855. His base of support is overwhelmingly White and disproportionately male. A master of TV imaging, Trump offers them Happy Days, Gunsmoke, or Daniel Boone. Not the reality of those years, but the fiction of stalwart men, supportive and uncomplaining women, and non-Whites who are generally completely invisible, or where visible are happily subservient or are subhuman enemies they can slaughter without remorse.
It should be no surprise. From patent medicines to land in Florida (or the west) to big-dick pills, scams generally succeed, depending on your definition of success.
As far as democracy in America goes, we currently have a choice between center-to-center-right, or batshit crazy posing as far-right. When one votes, one should vote for the general tenor or message of the party.
Democratic governance? Never existed, except in a few small towns in New England. Governance is performed by the politicians, and executed by the professionals (who are generally as close to truly neutral as humans can be). It's a good system, compared to everything else (Churchill's famous dictum: Democracy is the worst form of government on Earth, except for everything else).
You see it on this board, left and right. People latch onto one idea that will make everything better forever. But it simply doesn't work that way. Governance, and particularly democracy, are like owning a house or a 60s-model car. They require constant maintenance perpetual tinkering to work at all.
So it's left to those who take it seriously and put in the effort, with the check of having to report back every two or four or six years for an up-or-down vote. And the reason lying your ass off has become the most successful method for winning or surviving the up-or-down vote is the same reason hoi polloi, bless their ignorant, hateful, fear-filled hearts, will periodically buy Dr. Marvel's Magic Elixir (or hydroxychloroquine) or beachfront property in Florida or pills that will make your dick the size of your arm: because they're ignorant, fearful, and lack self-awareness.
At least everybody gets a say in a democracy. Not much of a say, mind, but something.
Trump is the closest thing we've had to a dictator since Andrew Jackson. But the system so far has been resilient enough that Trump, like Jackson, will leave when his time is over. Or maybe not. It may take guns to get him out. It wouldn't be the first time American democracy has needed the sharp correction of violence. No country in history has been immune.
If so, those guns will not be solely in the hands of slobbering MAGAhats.
I can hear you saying "But it's not right!" Don't bother. I can only give you Galileo's response to the Inquisition. . . "Yet it moves."
Not sure if mentioning Trump in the same sentence as "Old Hickory" is quite fair! Didn't Hickory have some scruples?