Counting votes and running elections should not be dangerous tasks. But here we are.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/kill-them-arizona-election-workers-face-midterm-threats-2022-11-06/
American authoritarianism is actively working to undermine and erode this county's election administration infrastructure, replacing it with hollowed-out offices led by ideological cronies.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/why-should-you-care-about-your-secretary-of-state
But this is the logical conclusion of decades of Republican discourse, from Ronald Reagan saying that government is the problem to Donald Trump's "Deep State".
If you want to be correct that 'government doesn't work', the most effective path is to get into governance and to break it, ensuring it doesn't work.
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