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I don’t mind posting something good several times. “ All Republicans are Republicans. There’s a regularly reoccurring email theme I get from seemingly a variety of people that goes along the lines of: Just like all Germans weren’t Nazis, not all Republican voters support what’s happening. Sorry, but nope. If you want to say just like all Germans weren’t Nazis, all Americans aren’t Republicans, sure I’m right there with you. But no one is forcing anyone to be a Republican; as of now it’s still a choice. And I get that if you are a kind, decent, well-meaning person who believes in equality, the wealthy paying some taxes, and saving our environment for our grandkids, it can be only natural to believe there must be kind, decent, well-meaning people like yourself among the Republican voters who would rise up against the January 6 plotters in their party had they succeeded, but there aren’t. There just aren’t. Sure there’s always the exceptions that prove the rule. I myself spend a large amount of time trying to get that crowd to see the reality right in front of them, but I have to say at this point they’ve had their fill of reality years back. They are now far happier living in the make believe world the talking points Republicans regularly supply them. I actually thanked the author of the Fox Business article that quoted so heavily from our January 6 email. At least they presented their readers with a different voice from what they are used to hearing. There’s always someone who can be reached. We’re Cooks, we don’t stop trying. But Republican voters have been done with democracy for a while now. We have to be honest about this. Though Republican voters have spent a lifetime pledging allegiance to the republic for which our flag stands, when their party ends that republic they won’t be rising up, or switching parties or actually be upset in any way at all. Instead they will just parrot whatever the Republican talking points will be that day: this is just until we can insure our elections haven’t been compromised, the president suffers from dementia and had to be removed from office for our nation’s safety, our focus right now must be the crisis at the border. Sadly, should our democracy end, Republican voters will feel a swelling of pride for their successful defense of democracy. The good news is that we still have time and not all Americans are Republicans, not by a long shot. If we were, they wouldn’t need to steal elections. We have time, but it’s time to make the most of it. We need to move on from imagining there are good people on both sides. Cooking has brought us so much, including a sense of right and wrong, good and bad. If we are going to keep our democracy we are going to have to become more comfortable using those words to counter Republican talking points that are really well-crafted but still depend on our politeness and willingness to debate their nonsense points. We have to be done with that. What’s the next step? Half of it is being done with debating “do vaccines work” or “was January 6 just a typical tourist walkthrough” and moving on to asking those spreading these lies what has made them so broken that they don’t care their lies are causing thousands of needless covid deaths or bringing about the end of America. And please, if you are still a Republican please, please try to wrap your mind around the reality that history, beyond any doubt, will be labeling you “the baddies.” You have our democracy hanging by a thread. You’ve needlessly killed hundreds of thousands of Americans with your covid nonsense. History will not be kind. And also, please stop intentionally causing all the abortions by banning sex Ed in schools and blocking affordable, accessible birth control. That’s just mean. Thanks!”