Alan Singer: A Fable about a Coup d’Etat

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1. Lloyd Lofthouse says:

   January 29, 2017 at 11:29 am

   Would extreme narcissist, psychopath, Littlefingers (his gangster street name) Donald Trump have won the election without cyber manipulation/help from Russia and voter suppression tactics in some GOP-dominated states?

   From Reuters World News

   Putin turned Russia election hacks in Trump’s favor: U.S. officials

   “Russian President Vladimir Putin supervised his intelligence agencies’ hacking of the U.S. presidential election and turned it from a general attempt to discredit American democracy to an effort to help Donald Trump, three U.S. officials said on Thursday.”

   http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-cyber-idUSKBN1441RS

   The Real Voting Scandal of 2016

   “Jill Stein can’t call for the recount of uncast votes, but there were clearly thousands of them as a result of voter-suppression measures.”

   http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/12/12/the-real-voting-scandal-of-2016

   What Early Voting in North Carolina Actually Reveals
   Some counties succeeded in suppressing voter turnout—but there’s much more to the story.

   North Carolina has been conducting a real-time experiment on the efficacy of voter suppression—and the results suggest both that it works, and that it’s far from the only factor at play in the state.

   “Voter suppression” has become a watchword in the state after a multi-year fight against the 2013 HB 589 voter law, a law championed by Republicans that reduced the early-voting period for elections by seven days, ended same-day voter registration, and established strict voter ID requirements.

   The general strategy that many Republicans pursued to make party-line changes to the first week of early voting were outlined in correspondence from state GOP executive director Dallas Woodhouse. Several county boards of elections eliminated Sunday voting during that week and severely curtailed the number of polling places and their hours of operation.

   http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/north-carolina-early-voting/506963/

   Conclusion: Without help from Russians brutal tyrant and autocrat Putin and voter suppression by the GOP, Littlefiners would not be the U.S. President today. The Alt-Right fascists and/or white supremacists can’t win an election honestly.

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2. Gordon Wilder says:

   January 29, 2017 at 11:34 am

   Shall we all go outside and vomit
   or
   FIGHT BACK in every legal way we can?
   Contact your political representatives, make y our voice heard and
   organize.
   We need organizational headlines to attract attention much as the Tea Party has done.

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3. Lloyd Lofthouse says:

   January 29, 2017 at 11:45 am

   From Moyers & Company

   Voter Suppression Laws are Working
   The real headline of this election was that 42 percent of eligible voters decided not to vote — either because they couldn’t or didn’t want to.

   Donald Trump won Wisconsin by just 27,000 votes, but 300,000 registered voters lacked strict forms of ID to vote, according to a federal court. The state’s voter-ID law depressed turnout, particularly among black voters. …

   Wisconsin was one of 14 states with new voting restrictions in effect for the first time in 2016, which was the first presidential election in 50 years without the full protections of the Voting Rights Act. In other states, like North Carolina, black turnout plunged because early voting hours were cut by Republicans and the number of polling places reduced.

   http://billmoyers.com/story/voter-suppression-laws-working/

   The states that have new voting restriction laws are (2012 was the last year with laws that protected against voter suppression and Putin did not interfere.

   Alabama
   Arizona
   Indiana
   Kansas
   Mississippi
   Nebraska
   New Hampshire (Obama won in 2012)
   Ohio (Obama won in 2012)
   Rhode Island (Obama won in 2012)
   South Carolina
   Tennessee
   Texas
   Virginia (Obama won in 2012)
   Wisconsin (Obama won in 2012)
   Florida (Obama won in 2012)
   Georgia
   Illinois (Obama won in 2012)
   Iowa (Obama won in 2012)
   South Dakota
   West Virginia

   Click to access New_Restrictions_2016.pdf

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   • Gordon Wilder says:

     January 29, 2017 at 12:54 pm

     Thank you so much for this post. VITALLY important. This with gerrymandering has allowed the debacle we now face to have happened.

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4. Joe says:

   January 29, 2017 at 12:00 pm

   We’ve had a far right wing coup d’etat of the government. It was a bloodless coup aided, assisted and abetted by too many Americans who don’t seem to care that Trump is a lying dangerous demagogue. The Limbaugh-Hannity candidate won and here we are. Bannon is just as bad as a Limbaugh or Hannity, if not worse.

   PS Lousy spell check keeps changing Bannon to Gannon. I caught it this time.

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5. jcgrim says:

   January 29, 2017 at 1:53 pm

   Diane, I’d like to make one respectful request. Alt-right is a euphemism for neo-nazism and white nationalism. It was coined by Richard Spencer to mask the group’s hateful views. I think we should call them what they are- neo-nazis and white nationalists. Alt-right makes their movement more palatable.

   http://www.npr.org/2016/11/27/503520811/the-white-nationalist-origins-of-the-term-alt-right-and-the-debate-around-it

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