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Thom Hartmann
@hartmannreport.com

From missing mail to armed federal agents and sweeping voter investigations, the warning signs suggest a democracy being squeezed before Americans even reach the ballot box… hartmannreport.com/p/trump-is-b...

hartmannreport.comTrump Is Building an Election Trap, and Millions of Americans May Not See It Until It's Too LateFrom missing mail to armed federal agents and sweeping voter investigations, the warning signs suggest a democracy being squeezed before Americans even reach the ballot box…

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Stampedehero
@thestampedehero.bsky.social

Call your County Clerks office and find out how to safely deliver your ballot. In Jersey, we have election mailboxes that are checked daily with ballots retrieved by the elections board 👉Avoid USPS and in person voting

Chip Ashley
@chip1950.bsky.social

Democracy is the realization of "the inalienable dignity of humankind," the ultimate sine qua non. In 1938, seeing the coming world war, the Nobel laureate Thomas Mann wrote these words in a pamphlet addressed to the America, its people and its government, "The Coming Victory of Democracy." 1/17

Chip Ashley
@chip1950.bsky.social

Mann wrote, "I wish to give the word 'democracy' a very broad meaning ... for I am connecting it with the highest human attributes, with the idea and the absolute; I am relating it to the inalienable dignity of mankind, which no force, however humiliating, can destroy." 2/17

Chip Ashley
@chip1950.bsky.social

Mann had undergone a transformation. In 1927 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, based upon his novel Buddenbrooks, which he published in 1901 at age 26. He was not always a champion of democracy. Indeed, he published in 1916 during WWI "Reflections of an Unpolitical Man." 3/17

Chip Ashley
@chip1950.bsky.social

"Reflections" was antidemocratic, favoring an authoritarian government based on German culture, which Mann saw as superior. However, when he saw fascist groups, including Hitler's Nazis, quoting his work to promote their movement, Mann changed his ideas completely. 4/17