Voting for Democracy

This meme from Liz Cheney sounds compelling, but it should read, “…. who believes in democracy and understands what represents the greater threat against it.”

My mom, who tomorrow will cast her 38th ballot for the Republicans (every two years since she achieved the age of majority in 1947), believes that Democrats are deliberately opening our borders so that poor people from Central America can pour in, somehow earn citizenship, and eventually outnumber real Americans at the polls.

Why does she believe this?  Well, that’s the narrative that’s force-fed her by the ultra-conservative media she follows.  The point, however, isn’t why she believes it; it’s that she believes it with all her being.  If I had the effrontery to ask her if she believes in democracy, she would reply, “Of course.  Do you?”