Tuesday, November 03, 2020

While Hyping Voter Intimidation, Left Promises To Revolt If Trump Wins

While Hyping Voter Intimidation, Left Promises To Revolt If Trump Wins:
  • While spinning false and exaggerated stories of right-wing threats, the left is ignoring perhaps the biggest threat of voter intimidation. Why? Because it's coming from their own ranks.
"Resistance Democrats want you to be worried about voter intimidation. 
They also want you to know that they will not be going gently into that good election night if President Trump wins again.
It seems like threats of “creating serious disruption,” as one Resistance group expressed plans to do if Trump wins, might be a worrisome voter intimidation tactic. 
(If someone told me he would bring mass chaos to the streets if I voted for a particular candidate, I’d feel intimidated.) 
...But the media and Twitter establishments are a lot more interested in a narrative where voter intimidation comes from the right.
...A protest group called Shut Down DC is organizing an effort to “create serious disruption if Trump really tries to steal the election,” with a gathering in Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, D.C. on election night. The group, which also encourages similar disruptions in other communities, says they are “ready to do whatever it takes.”

In the days following the election, Shut Down DC’s action plan promises “no more business as usual.” It threatens to seek out members of Congress “at the train station or the airports,” or “we can meet them at their homes.”...Read all.

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