Everyone who is paying attention to politics knows it: The 2022 midterms may determine the fate of American democracy. If Republicans win key offices, especially gubernatorial and state secretary seats, they are prepared to steal the 2024 election for Donald Trump by invalidating and falsifying election results. Once he's installed illegally, Trump has signaled that he's going to fill his government with anti-democracy cronies, helping make sure a free and fair election is never held again in this country. As Heather "Digby" Parton noted Monday at Salon, issues like abortion rights and economic fairness are crucial, but "none of that will matter if these authoritarian, anti-democratic election deniers win their races." If Trump and his allies successfully end democracy, all avenues Americans have to protect their rights and solve economic problems will be shut down.
And yet polling shows time and again that voters don't seem to care. With a poll that sent a traumatic shockwave through #Resistance Twitter Tuesday, the New York Times reported, "Voters overwhelmingly believe American democracy is under threat, but seem remarkably apathetic about that danger, with few calling it the nation's most pressing problem." Even though 71% of voters said democracy is at risk, only 7% identified that as the most pressing issue of the election.
