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Dictatorship or democracy?
This Nov. 3rd election is primarily about one thing: does the U.S. descend into Mitch McConnell’s “permanent conservative dictatorship” government with Trump’s re-election, or do we retain our Constitutional democratically-elected republic under Biden.
Trump already ignores, stomps on and outright violates any parts of the Constitution that get in the way of what he wants to do, as well as any and all laws, rules and regulations that get in his way. He has declared he is and should be the president/dictator for the next eight, twelve or eighteen years (basically for life).
McConnell, for the last decade, has increasingly turned the U.S. Senate into a personal dictatorship where absolutely nothing he doesn’t personally approve will never be even discussed, making the Senate irrelevant to anything except totally preventing any legislation being passed that was passed in the House. A Democratic Senate can remove him and try him for his crimes.
Trump and McConnell have spent the last four years totally destroying the Federal Judiciary as a non-partisan judicial body and made it an un-elected law-creating/destroying conservative body.
Do we want an dictatorship or a democracy? Get out and vote!
Eric Johnson
Spokane