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We all know that Republicans can't afford free, democratic votes. So they are doing everything in their power to sabotage or even prevent them. By means that may or may not be legal.
It will be legal, they will make sure of it. And if not, the courts will say it is.
Remember, SCOTUS already gave him carte blanche. The shadow-docket approvals are just a formality.
Nearly every atrocity committed by Nazi Germany was "legal" for the same(-ish) reasons. "Legal" doesn't necessarily mean moral, or ethical. Under fascism, if usually doesn't.
People who believe strongly in hierarchy, especially what they believe are "natural" hierarchies, are, obviously, opposed to democracy. Democracy is inherently egalitarian, because all voters have exactly the same number of votes: one. In a democracy, the billionaire CEO and the $30,000 a year cashier, have one vote each. No more, no less. The billionaire CEO is more likely to dislike this arrangement because it doesn't properly respect his "superiority." It's ludicrous to the billionaire CEO that a mere cashier should have the same number of votes as him. He might even believe that it is "unnatural," because he believes that his superiority is something that is innate. He was born superior and he will die superior, and his greater financial success is proof of that innate superiority, and it was inevitable, in his mind.
Remember how so many centrists, bothsiderists, wingers and so on would gaslight anyone pointing out that conservatives are extremely antagonist to real democracy and to real freedom? Call those pointing it out "hysterical", etc.?
Yeah.
Where do you live? Well (Americans) wherever that is look up your state election board. With few exceptions they are MAGAt nazi fascists installed to ensure the people are not represented. Fight them. In meetings. With public letters. Follow their stupid fucking social media. Let them know you’re not going to let them get away with it.