HEY JOE, WHAT D'YA KNOW?

An innocent African-American motorist shot in the back of the head, execution-style. Straight from the Purges of the 1930s in the USSR. Not the first and, deplorably, not to be the last and we all know it!
One of our major parties making deliberate plans to steal the elections from here on in, rendering our democratic processes into total shams. Yes, I know some will say, they already are but I'll debate the current percentage of sham in those events as of now.
A tyrannical dictator once said, "It doesn't matter who actually votes; what matters is who counts the votes." And our current fascist party, aka the 'Republicans', is making sure only they count the votes henceforth.
These two themes tell me that the spirit of another Joe (aside from our president) is stalking our country. He was born Jozef Dzugashvili in Georgia. (Not our Georgia; the one in the Caucasus) His father was by no means sure his son was his and took his suspicions out on the boy viciously. When the boy was a man, he took up with revolutionaries. He found out he could be a successful power player. He is known to us as Joseph Stalin. The words cited above were said by him. His is the spirit that rules today's 'Republican' party.
And if we let their plots succeed, purges, repeated purges, is what we can expect. And we can expect pseudo-science such as Lysenko's to knock out real science. This means serious lurching towards and probably over the climate cliff! The purges will be against people of color, first those who have power and influence. Then against the rest of them. We can count on the Jews being among those groups purged most viciously. That is one thing tyrants always--repeat, always--do.
There will probably be purges against 'race-traitors' like me. When they come for me, I for one will do my damnedest to take at least one of the thugs down. What about you?
It may have to come to open civil war if we are to preserve and, yes, extend our democracy. We liberals and progressives aren't very good at fighting. Some of us have non-violence training, which will be all the more necessary if and as things worsen. I just wonder, will it be enough? I hope it will be, but I fear we had better get ready to shoot back when our fascist Stalinists start shooting. What will we do if, and when, our fascists establish oligarchic dictatorship under 'legal ' cover? Will we knuckle under, and then be taken and murdered in the successive purges sure to follow? Or will we see through the 'legal' cover, shout out a glorious 'NO!!' and get marching, with either nonviolent weapons or 'traditional' weapons?
I fervently hope and pray that it will be the latter.
If and when it is, as the group Yes sings in the song Roundabout, I'll be there with you--!!