Trump predicts the end of U.S. democracy if he loses 2024 election

I'm not talking about voter ID. The GOP has put other obstacles in place like closing polling places, restricting absentee ballots, reducing the number of ballot drop boxes, gerrymandering, restricting early voting.

First of all THANK YOU for actual links! I always ask for them and no one ever gives me any but you did and I appreciate it SO much. I really WANT to see other people's point of view and you took the time to do that.

1.) I never listen to Rachel Maddow for news, she is a news commentator like Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Anderson Cooper. They make a living off of commentating on the news with a distinctly biased point of view to generate money for their station by telling their listeners what they want to hear, or use fear (like the Nazis did) to scare people into thinking that they have to do something drastic or the world is going to end, it's not 'news'.

This article was written to appeal to what certain people want to hear as well, you can see that even in the title how they deconstructed it with single quote marks because it's not a direct quotation.

She was discussing how she was worried about the country (broadly) if we put someone in power who is openly avowing that he plans to build camps to hold millions of people. What she actually said was “For that matter, what convinces you that these massive camps he’s planning are only for migrants? So, yes, I’m worried about me — but only as much as I’m worried about all of us.”

You can see how that quote was taken out of context to create a headline. She's not anymore worried for herself than the rest of us.

Despite her not exactly SAYING that everyone is going to be put into camps, she implied that they MIGHT be which is contributing to the fear tactic. It's important to recognize it and call it out no matter who or where it comes from.

2.) Thanks for those links, I read them all, it's important to stay informed.

I could read them and become scared and angry at all immigrants. It's easy to do, they come from somewhere else and have customs that make us uncomfortable, they don't speak our language, it's all unfamiliar, alien and DIFFERENT. It's easy to turn them into the boogie man, especially if someone was constantly telling me they were raping torturing and killing women on a daily basis.

However if you zoom out and actually start comparing crime rates between undocumented immigrants, legal immigrants, and native-born US citizens you find that the truth is quite a different story.

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/08/1237103158/immigrants-are-less-likely-to-commit-crimes-than-us-born-americans-studies-find

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2024/03/immigrants-are-significantly-less-likely-to-commit-crimes-than-the-us-born/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/29/truth-about-illegal-immigration-crime/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/undocumented-immigrants-are-half-as-likely-to-be-arrested-for-violent-crimes-as-u-s-born-citizens/

I've given you a lot of different sources because I know that Republicans don't trust some of these sources so maybe one of them will be trustworthy to you, if not, PLEASE look it up for yourself. it's important!

This one has a graph of just Texas crime: https://news.wisc.edu/undocumented-immigrants-far-less-likely-to-commit-crimes-in-u-s-than-citizens/