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The Cult Is Voting Early and Already Causing Problems
US voting law states you cannot advertise or promote one candidate over another at the polling places.
I want to share a story with you, the lucky 40 or so, who will actually see these words before they are buried by the Medium algorithm. The early voting has begun in most states, and the MAGA cultists are crawling out from under the woodpile, slinking up from the damp basements, and venturing out from the one-room cabins to cast their votes for the leader. Many of them are demonstrating just how vile, uncivilized, and socially inept they really are.
To be fair, I must add to the above description how they are crawling out of dang, smelly lagoons of ignorance, some somewhat normal places like next door to many of you reading these words. This is probably the most disconcerting thing of all in our national moment of alarm and danger: the MAGA fascists are everywhere. The MAGA fascists quite often just normal Joes and Janes, Bob and Sallys, Jamals and Marias. They aren’t the extremes of the MAGidiot about whom I write with such displeasure and disgust. They are people who did well in school and, surprisingly, even paid attention during freshman year civics. Writing about these people, though, is not fun; it is almost like writing an action-adventure movie based…
