“There’s not another legislative bill… that can get passed and has the kind of support of the American people if you don’t fundamentally deal with the right to vote. Because at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter if you pass another infrastructure bill, it doesn’t matter if you pass all these other bills, because back at home, those citizens are watching their constitutional right – not your constitutional right to have a pothole filled, but your constitutional right to have a vote stripped away systematically by the minority party. And you’re either going to step up and push back against that and shut it down, or you’re not. And that’s what the Texas legislators are saying… ‘y’all need to shut this down now’”
– Former Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele, on MSNBC
“He loved what happened on Jan. 6th because it was all about him. These people were fighting for him ― and fighting against democracy and against free elections, to be sure ― but they were fighting for him, and that’s what he cares about.”
–Longtime Trump critic George Conway, saying that Trump uttered “one fundamental truth” about the Jan. 6 insurrection when he told rioters he loved them.
Louisiana Voice 
We MUST get to the polls and VOTE people who do not represent us OUT before they make it impossible to do so. Our only alternative is to do like the citizens in Ascension and start recalls, but we have to accept that our only real and concrete solution is the ballot box.
If Texas and Florida support their governors, they need to consider seceding.
If we, in the 70% of the U. S. population capable of rational thought, sit on our duffs and do nothing, the 30% who believe in an authoritarian government will succeed. The danger is very real and we ignore it at our own peril and that of our country.
History – look at it and believe it can and does repeat itself if it is ignored.
Carl Sagan, who died in 1996, foresaw America’s decline and wrote in his book The Demon Haunted World (written one year before he died) that: ”
I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…”
and then he talks about the dumbing down of America:
“…most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance…”
And he writes that Jefferson “believed that the habit of skepticism is an essential prerequisite for responsible citizenship. He argued that the cost of education is trivial compared to the cost of ignorance, of leaving government to the wolves.”
Ignorance…the enemy of democracy. In full and violent display on January 6th, in refusing vaccines, in following their cult leader the big liar, in wanting to eliminate the free press, in white supremacy, in thinking authoritarian government is the answer to our problems, and on and on…