If you voted for anyone or anything progressive in 2020, FOR GOD’S SAKE VOTE THIS YEAR!

This is written on Thursday, November 3rd, five days before the midterm elections.

It is now clear that there is no such thing as a reasonable, decent Republican candidate for any partisan office this year.

Far too many still refuse to accept the results of the 2020 election- some are planning to refuse to accept any result but a victory for themselves this year.

Far too many are anti-choice(therefore antiwoman) anti-union(therefore anti-worker) anti-LGBTQ+(therefore anti-civilization and decency.

Historically, turnout at midterm elections is massively lower than in presidential election years. Historically, this is to the benefit of the most reactionary candidates on the ballot.

In the past, there were decent right-wing candidates who were willing to accept defeat and not try to overturn settled election results…even Richard Nixon, in 1960, accepted his narrow defeat at the hands of John F. Kennedy and did not try to use his power as president of the Senate, presiding over the certification of the electoral college results, to impose himself in power against the will of the voters.

No Republican incumbent or candidate like that exists today.

They are all pledged, not just to try to win their own races and help other candidates of their party win theirs- which would be legitimate- but to permanently re-write the country’s electoral laws and procedures so that their…