"I speak today near Capitol Hill, near the U.S. Capitol, the citadel of our democracy. I know there’s a lot at stake in these midterm elections, from our economy, to the safety of our streets, to our personal freedoms, to the future of health care and Social Security, Medicare. It’s all important. But we’ll have our differences, we’ll have our difference of opinion. And that’s what it’s supposed to be.
"But there’s something else at stake, democracy itself. I’m not the only one who sees it. Recent polls have shown an overwhelming majority of Americans believe our democracy is at risk, that our democracy is under threat. They too see that democracy is on the ballot this year, and they’re deeply concerned about it.
"So today, I appeal to all Americans, regardless of party, to meet this moment of national and generational importance. We must vote knowing what’s at stake and not just the policy of the moment, but institutions that have held us together as we’ve sought a more perfect union are also at stake. We must vote knowing who we have been, what we’re at risk of becoming." -- excerpt from President Biden's speech last night at Union Station, Washington, D.C., on the threat to democracy posed by Christofascist Republicans and their cult leader, the Malignant Loser.
Predictably, the reaction of our corporate media's puerile horse race "journalists" can be summed up in this tweet:
BIDEN: So, democracy: it's important, and at risk.
— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) November 2, 2022
RIGHT-WINGERS: *show up at polling places with guns to intimidate voters, break into Pelosi's house with a hammer, intending to break her kneecaps; beat her husband.
REPORTERS: OMG Biden's gonna talk about democracy *again*
