you identify as an Independent you are clueless in my opinion.

My standard line when someone tells me that they are libertarians is, “ Ah, so you’re an idiot.” That usually gets an interesting reaction.

A dear friend of mine told me that her husband is a libertarian. Can’t remember what exactly I said but it wasn’t complimentary.

Once I pointed out that “libertarianism” is an intellectual dodge even when it isn’t being used as a code word for fascist she came to agree.

Being an independent also can be code for fascist. Often though, this is someone who doesn’t really understand the importance of politics for us all. So they just decide to not decide.

Not morons so much as chronic vacillators.

The migration from Republican to Independent and Independent to Democrat is remarkably fast.

Remember, we are looking at effectively the same "cohort." In other words, the effect is almost all down to movement of people in the current electorate. It is not an artifact of the addition of younger voters or loss of older voters with differing political leanings that takes place when you compare across multiple years.

Look for a 5 point+ additional drop with Repukes in the next 30 days.

Issue is, we don't know what they will try to save themselves.

My guess, something similar to what happened in Isreal October 7th.

... have seen so many "unbelievable" things out of these people, we won't be taken by surprise by anything.

I have no doubt that motions are already drafted in the event of attempts to "cancel" in the face of some declaration of a national emergency or in response to some other previously "unimaginable" move they might make. And there is already pre-emptive legislative action and litigation going on. Bills to keep ICE away, etc.

We are SMARTER than they are and very, very, often, when we take them on, we win.

There needs to be a balance between preparing for the worst without spreading immobilizing fears of their awesome power (they are WEAK, not Strong) or fears of some apocalyptic event. We have a highly distributed, robust election system. The shear number of polling places makes it tough to attack. And we know where their efforts will be focused -- population centers, Democratic Party strongholds, and heavily contested races in red states.

It shouldn't be this way, but the most critical thing we can do is make sure the vote against them is so overwhelming that stealing is impossible.

In every state that has early voting or mail in voting, the goal should be to get every voter to cast their vote within the first week. We've got to find ways to encourage people -- especially younger people who tend to procrastinate -- to vote early. For those who vote by mail, VERIFY with whatever tracking is available.

The earlier people vote the better. We can't know what they will pull, but we know that they are most likely to target election day itself, so if there is a way to vote before that, we need to do what we can to encourage people to do that.

And of course, all the usual stuff. Volunteer as a poll watcher, give to the state party and election protection organizations. Every bit helps.