Is it true that 1.5 million voters were purged in Georgia? According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 500,000 voters were recently purged. "Since 2012, according to federal and state data, Georgia has removed about 1.4 million people from the voting rolls."
Whatever the exact number, such blatant voter-disenfranchisement is despicable and warrants an organized national response. Boycott of Georgia?
North Carolina and other states enacted similar policies.
Given all this craziness, this well-written article seems quite plausible: America's Next Civil War. "The United States shows all the warning signs of impending social and political collapse." The article describes the extreme divisions in American politics and the failure of major institutions. It envisions the outbreak of violence.
So, progressives don't have a lot to be pleased about. What's more, this article, Progressives' plan for victory just took a gut-punch. Now what do they do?, suggests that progressives flipped few seats in the 2018 election. "Despite a good night for congressional Democrats overall, nearly all of national progressive groups' star candidates fell short in their contests in red or purple districts and states, potentially slowing the momentum the emboldened left had enjoyed since Hillary Clinton's loss two years ago." (Or is that story biased?)
The far left -- meaning those who regarded Hillary and the Dems as the "lesser-of-two-evils" and who refused to vote for them -- may be correct that the mainstream Dems were helping the GOP set the U.S. on a path towards environmental, budgetary and military destruction. But at least the Dems were doing so slowly. Realistically, the mainstream Dems are centrists and, generally, hawks, but they're not deranged like the Republicans. They would have protected the EPA, the Supreme Court, the separation of church and state, gay rights, labor rights, etc., etc.
The Republicans are galloping towards the Apocalypse, or a Second Civil War.
Progressive Dems -- many of them young women -- won many races. So there is hope. But can the center hold or will the nation further split into warring factions of Trumpian Republicans on the one hand, and Democrats and other leftists on the other? Furthermore, can the Left heal the divisions between the Democrats and the radicalizing socialists fed up with the corporate, centrist Dems? If the socialists would join forces with the progressive Dems, together they could together kick out the corporate Dems and reform the Democratic Party.
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