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kentuck

(116,261 posts)
Tue Jul 7, 2026, 11:32 AM 18 hrs ago

How important is the next election to the future of this country?

This is the most important vote you will ever cast. We hear that every election, it seems. But this time, it is probably very true.

The dictator has taken control of everything, right down to the World Cup. He owns the Congress. He owns the Supreme Court. The Executive Branch is nothing more than a "gopher" service for him. Who would want to interrupt such a relationship with a vote against the dictator and his cult?

It is not just Republicans that we are running against. We are running against the billionaires. We are running against a propaganda network that would put Goebels to shame. We are running against criminals and their accomplices.

So, yes. This is a very important election sneaking up on us.

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How important is the next election to the future of this country? (Original Post) kentuck 18 hrs ago OP
Vote as though your life depended on it MustLoveBeagles 18 hrs ago #1
Absolutely! SheltieLover 18 hrs ago #2
It's the last chance for our Democracy to continue IMO Johnny2X2X 18 hrs ago #3
Extremely important TommieMommy 18 hrs ago #4
I hope I live to see it Prairie_Seagull 18 hrs ago #5
The most important election was forty-six years ago. BlueTsunami2018 18 hrs ago #6
The most important election was 2000 DemocracyForever 16 hrs ago #9
The last election was the most important... kirby 17 hrs ago #7
Well said! DemocracyForever 16 hrs ago #8
The last election was the most important. haele 16 hrs ago #10
Every next election is most important, the 2026 midterm is VERY important 31j20b3 16 hrs ago #11

Johnny2X2X

(24,634 posts)
3. It's the last chance for our Democracy to continue IMO
Tue Jul 7, 2026, 11:44 AM
18 hrs ago

Trump will go full dictator without an opposition in Congress.

Prairie_Seagull

(4,921 posts)
5. I hope I live to see it
Tue Jul 7, 2026, 12:11 PM
18 hrs ago

Bend back toward Justice.

Next election should be just the beginning and it's VITAL.

BlueTsunami2018

(5,157 posts)
6. The most important election was forty-six years ago.
Tue Jul 7, 2026, 12:25 PM
18 hrs ago

No election is going to fix this. The bad guys won the game and they won it a long time ago.

We’ll keep going through the motions but if you haven’t figured out by now that the owners of the country are never giving up power unless we destroy them utterly, you’re living in a dream world. The kind of sacrifice that it would take to wrest power away from these fucks is tremendous, and no one wants to give up their comforts and pay the price. It’s too steep.

No one is coming to save us no matter how this election turns out.

DemocracyForever

(403 posts)
9. The most important election was 2000
Tue Jul 7, 2026, 01:42 PM
16 hrs ago

That's what made this nightmare possible. It created the road map for successfully stealing a Presidential election, it created the horrible economy that left so many working people behind which dictator Trump exploited to the nth degree and it created the MAGA SCOTUS majority that's now shredding the constitution and taking our fundamental rights away.

kirby

(4,542 posts)
7. The last election was the most important...
Tue Jul 7, 2026, 12:54 PM
17 hrs ago

And this country failed. The upcoming is important but not to the same level IMO.

haele

(15,753 posts)
10. The last election was the most important.
Tue Jul 7, 2026, 01:45 PM
16 hrs ago

The next one only determines how competent a janitorial group we end up with, , and whether or not as a country, we're hiring a demolition crew or a remediation crew. A Repair crew won't be available until 2028 at best.

The USA has been broken in a drunken brawl. Corrupt M-F'ers are just going through open doorways and cracked storage looking to see what they can loot.

31j20b3

(206 posts)
11. Every next election is most important, the 2026 midterm is VERY important
Tue Jul 7, 2026, 01:57 PM
16 hrs ago

because it carries an opportunity to (figuratively) cut the balls off the dictator.

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