This is a taste for Americans of what it must feel like for many people across the world in less fortunate countries every day, for as long as anyone can remember. I can't imagine living with this indefinitely with no hope of change.

No, he isn't "outright saying" that. This is the kind of statement that Scott Alexander rightfully criticised some years ago when people started saying Trump is "openly" racist:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/11/16/you-are-still-crying-wo...

Here's an actual quote from him: "Mail-in ballots are very dangerous - there's tremendous fraud involved." That's what he is outright saying.

Mail fraud is not a US specific problem. UK elections have had the same problems. In one case someone who had previously been jailed for mail voting fraud took an Instagram selfie of himself in the counting room. An MP has written an article about mail voting fraud here:

https://www.politicshome.com/thehouse/article/there-is-wides...

This election is a referendum on the survival of humanity.

I recognize that the previous sentence seems hyperbolic but I believe it to be the case. I'm terrified.

I also oppose 99% of their platform including government run healthcare, extreme theft errr taxation, open social programs for anyone that happens to be physically located inside the boarders, their Identity / Social Justice Warrior politics, I could go on and on

I support federalism, I support individual liberty, I support meritocracy. all of which they stand against

Sure, Biden and Harris are terrible candidates because they're 1990s Republicans, but they're a million times better than Trump and Pence. The smear campaigns against them are an attempt to elevate Trump and Pence so he seems only as awful as Biden And Harris. Don't take the bait. Don't defend them. For a Republican to warn liberals that Biden and Harris don't deserve anyone's vote because they're those "tough on crime" types when it was Republicans who shut the government down to force through "tough on crime" legislation and codify "tough on crime" as a requisite to hold political office is some serious b.s.

Edit: Attack the messenger and you won't have to address the message.

Socialism fails very quickly if not backed by an Authoritarian form of government... Only with Authoritarian enforcement can it survive and then only with extreme poverty and misery for most people.

As a side note, effectively crippling mail-in voting would prohibit many FL elderly (mostly R) from voting.

Universal mail-in voting is different in that every registered voter gets a mail-in ballot without even requesting one.

Also, he votes by mail-in ballot to Florida.

It would be one thing if it rolled out with a defined planned over the course of a few years. it is something else when it is an emergency measure rolled out with no plan in an ad hoc manner

https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/article224873455.htm...

USPS has always provided superior service for us compared to UPS or Fedex.

I am hopeful they'll be able to fix their budget issues by fixing their cost structure.

It seems completely asinine to block their ability to make sound financial decisions and force them into providing an inferior service instead.

What could someone like in this man? I struggle to find any redeeming qualities.

Not from the US, but looking from the outside, it seems your country is collapsing on itself and people are cheering on this word little individual that shows little abilities. Just puzzling to me.

war1025 is a religious white guy in Iowa who has argued that Proposition 8 in California wasn't a ban on same sex marriage. I'd actually be surprised if someone like this wasn't a Trump supporter.

Edit:

My email is in my profile. Feel free to reach out if you'd like to have an actual conversation instead of just name calling.

Consider that all major US media outlets are driven by ad-spend, which is in term driven by views. Views are driven by outrage. Trump is a great target for outrage. The media love to hate him. He loves to let them hate him.

If you turn off the news, the country is in general humming along just fine. Stock market is doing great. No new wars. Finally doing something to address major trade imbalances with China.

If you listen to the news, everyone and their mother is dying in the streets of coronavirus. In reality, roughly 1-3% of the population has even caught the virus. Deaths are way down from March/April.

For a country and a president that are supposedly incompetent to the point of collapse, things are going pretty damn great.

Even _assuming_ everything is great, would it _really_ be his merit? I mean, everything that man did has been counter-productive for your country. He is a bumbling idiot. He really is. What merit does he have? I just can not see it. The fact that "well, we're not all dead yet" is hardly a criteria for success.

And no, my bad opinion of him is not because "the media" - my bad opinion stems from reading his book "The art of the deal" about a decade ago (that was highly recommended by friends - they said it's great!) - and in there he came off, to me, as a corrupt scumbag. All his behavior since only reinforced this.

It looks to me like the slow motion fall of an empire. And empires fall all the time, think about Great Britain, a bit over a hundred years ago they were the "the empire on which the sun never sets" - wonder if in another century people will look the same at the US.

And we haven't gotten into any new wars.

And we have significantly scaled back our existing wars in the Middle East.

And, whether its to his credit or not, health insurance prices have stopped spiking 10-20% per year.

And he's nominated two conservative justices to the Supreme Court.

And he moved the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.

And he just brokered a peace deal between Israel and the UAE

And tensions with North Korea have been de-escalated, even if that effort didn't go very far.

And he addressed funding imbalances in the UN

And my taxes went way down

And he's not a Democrat, so the media is actually critical of him, instead of fawning over how dreamy he is at every turn.

Immigration isn't a big issue for me, but I prefer his stance over open borders.

So I guess there's a random list that you may also tell me isn't actually a list.

The country is doing 'just fine' if you are a person who has expendable income to invest and job security (and health insurance) because you have the ability to work remotely. The unemployment rate is very high, and most of those laid off are not knowledge workers - which is correlated with lower pay. Those who can least afford it are losing the most jobs. The wealth gap, already at an all time high, is undoubtedly going to increase significantly.

Obviously the country is not at the point of collapse, but do you not think the problems I just listed are cause for serious concern?

I can literally go on and on. This is just what I had the effort to type out. How are these things pretty damn great? Just one or two of these should have a massive negative impact on any politician.

I mean, his comment was openly admitting that...

Democrats (and Republicans) are domestic terror groups? Was Obama a terrorist by your estimation? Carter? And the cure for this is a military coup? When has that ever worked?

False equivalency and hyperbole ensure things don't get better.

Obama doing something anti-democratic, illegal, etc to ensure Trump wasn't elected is not a step I would ever support.

I'm a Democrat, and reasonably proud to be so—more proud than I would be to be a Republican, at any rate—but looking back through American history should make you very hesitant to claim anything about what Republicans and Democrats always have been. Democrats have often been the "big party" tent, and that's good; but it means, for example, that we embraced and welcome secessionists for a long time. That's a legacy we largely left behind with LBJ, and I'm glad we did, but it would be disingenuous to disown it.

It used to be meaningful to talk about liberal versus conservative Democrats, and liberal versus conservative Republicans; don't assume that how things are now is how they've always been, or even how they've been for more than a few decades.

As a citizen, you can do everything right, vote and your vote will still not count.

Whats wrong with pencil and ballot dropped into clear acrylic box, simple and works 100%.

2. That's also being fucked with.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/09/12/report...

https://www.governing.com/topics/politics/sl-polling-place-c...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-locations/so...

Voting is a hard problem.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/fake-id-seizures-on-the-rise-m...

Plato's critique of a Democracy is it's the son of Oligarchy & degenerates into Tyranny...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato%27s_five_regimes

Source Heritage Foundation https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/06/trumps-absentee-vs-mail-in...

Unlike the article above I posted, there are no links to source documents of procedures or any source data other than partisan opinions.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/authorities-seize-thousands-of-fa...

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/local-media-release/cbp-louisvi...

https://twitter.com/CBPChicago/status/1291057732825513984