Thread by @sarahposner

This is such an important, crucial story that I fear is getting lost amid... everything.

Election workers are fearing for their lives, owing to the GOP fomenting of "fraud" conspiracy theories.

washingtonpost.com/politics/elect…

This is of a piece, along with the menacing of public health officials by people unhinged by the prospect of wearing a piece of cloth on their face to protect themselves and others from a deadly virus.

I cannot emphasize enough what an emergency this is. Public servants, health care workers, ordinary citizens--the very fabric of our society and our democracy--are under attack by crazed conspiracy theorists and bad actors looking to make a buck on division and hate.

How much longer are we going to tolerate this? It's not only dismissed, but *encouraged* by one of our two political parties.

It's a goddamn bona fide emergency.

Are you not sick and fucking tired of it? Of lunatics who believe nutty conspiracy theories about election hacking threatening the people who are responsible for making our elections run smoothly?

Of people who've been brainwashed by literal villains on Facebook and in the pulpits of their churches that doctors and epidemiologists and virologists are perpetrating a giant hoax on us, and you should go threaten them at school board meetings?

I mean, come the fuck on!

They're a minority, yes. But a minority that's propped up, cheerleaded, indoctrinated, and enabled by one of our two political parties.

These lunatics are making it so people who are committed to public service are fearing for their lives. It's terrorism, plain and simple. And there needs to be a mass pushback against it or we're fucked.

Read this new piece in the Post, about all the threats that election workers are facing. Read every word.

washingtonpost.com/politics/elect…