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voting and protest are in extreme and increasing danger in the US this year

US elections have never been fair and are far from representative, but never in the past few decades has the establishment so strongly currated a movement, legal and illegal, against voting. Every liberal could shout “vote” to people online and that will change literally nothing about the threats to human rights and freedoms occuring before the election and likely after

The governor of Florida introduced a bill that creates a legal loophole allowing citizens to drive into protesters. Republicans are showing up to polls armed to “stop voter fraud” (they’e intending to intimidate POC and Democrat voters, illegally). Trump has already been saying he’ll claim victory despite the results and is relying on the now very conservative court system to support him. This is all on top of threats to the post office service, gerrymandering, and the electoral college, which selected trump when he lost 3 million votes.

Not all is lost!

-this post has links to current Senate races where either an incumbent Republican is being challenged or an incumbent Democrat is at risk of losing their seat

-the graphic below has important voter information

however, voting is contingent on your ability to do so, such as you just saw is under extreme threats and not a secure option to a better world

more importantly:

If you haven’t joined any defunding police protests yet, it’s not too late.

Trump doesn’t shut down protests, police do. Trump doesn’t arrest protesters, police do. Federal agents are too few to cover the US and aren’t responsible for the hundreds of people killed by local police every year. Law without violence backing it is just words on paper. Trump has the support of police forces and unions already. Police are protecting MAGA protesters attacking others and blocking the polls. You should know that they’re helping a dictator.

The police shouldn’t be emboldened to stop protests or dissent, ever. The police shouldn’t take 30-50% of city’s discretionary funds. Police shouldn’t endorse political candidates. They’re public servants with absolute power because current law holds no real constraints on them.

You don’t have to totally agree that police shouldn’t exist, but if you support ideas of democracy you cannot support tax money funding a standing army in every city that’s excited to crush protests against their budgets and filmed executions. There’s more people in the streets this year than ever before demanding their taxes be spent to help them and that murderers be held accountable regardless of occupation. The lack of concessions on politicians’ part is because they benefit from complacency and their constituents only ever waiting for the election, never marching against them or disrupting their lives.

Revolution is not an event. It’s a continuous process where more and more people act on their own agency and recognize the illegitimacy of the state and the violence it uses to keep the status quo made by dead men with concerns only for their own power. Revolution is creating a new, fair world while destroying the old world that eats workers alive to profit a few families. Revolution is reconnecting with the natural world and rejecting false hierarchies and borders.

The revolution will not be televised. You must participate.