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In America today, the dangerous fantasy is that voting is not safe, the election was stolen, and that we need an armed uprising to manage that.

So, do you think those ideas deserve to be held up next things like suffrage or the abolishing of slavery? Please, no.

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A deeper problem is that many consider voting broken by definition, unless their team wins. Because the opposition has been "corrupted" and "fooled", their dissent is not legitimate. They see the ballot box strictly as a utilitarian tool, which when it does not give the God Given outcome, can rightly be followed up by the ammo box. Because the opposition is wrong and dangerous to this country.

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