This is hell.

If you are listening to the live stream where our podcast later today, it is Election Day here in the U.S.

Last week, we prepared you for today's elections in pseudo-democracy, where our political choices, our political party choices, are limited to two billionaire-funded

private corporations that do not have to act democratically and their candidate-nominating

procedures.

We did that by first telling you that capitalism, specifically financialized capitalism,

has been spreading disease, killing millions since the 1980s.

Then we reflected on our past and how Western civilization and philosophy,

the foundations of our supposed democracy here in the U.S., legitimize the racist cruelty of colonialism,

the brutality of imperialism, the greatest crime against humanity, genocide. Now that it is election

day, we are continuing to pat our file of potential violations of the National Security

Presidential Memorandum 7 against so-called domestic terrorism. However, the ACLU points out that

it violates the first, fourth, fifth, and 14th amendments to the Constitution is a deliberate

attempt to so fear and intimidate and silence opposition to the president's abuses. The ACLU also states perhaps the most chilling rhetorical move the president makes it to use is vague broad labels such as anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism and anti-Christianity, support for the overthrow of the federal government,

extremism on migration, race, and gender, and opposition to traditional American views on family,

religion, and morality. The ACLU adds that the president even bizarrely imagines that support for

law enforcement and border patrol are foundational American principles that his political opponents paint as fascist to encourage violence.

With all that in mind, let's consider a world that is more inclusive, more democratic this election day.

Let's find out how another world is still possible.

Joining us is Sasha Davis, author of Replace the State, How to Change the World when elections and protests fail.

Welcome to This is Howl Sasha.

Thank you so much for having me on the show. It's a pleasure.

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