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Congratulations, Republicans. Your party is now Public Enemy Number One.<\/p>\n
Your refusal to pass a sweeping voting rights bill proves that you hate democracy. Everybody who voted against this bill did not think for even a split second about the principles on which the United States of America was founded, principles for which millions of brave men – and a few equally brave women – have sacrificed their lives. Everybody who voted against this bill is an enemy of freedom, a hater of justice, a traitor of deepest dye.<\/p>\n
From now on the GOP is E-V-I-L. Pure evil. They are the Sith, Death Eaters, COBRA, SPECTRE, the Legion of Doom. Politics in the United States is no longer Liberal vs. Conservative, but Good vs. Evil.<\/p>\n
I heard the news that the bill was doomed, but I called my Senators anyway and urged them to support the bill. If I am allowed to brag, at least I did something. The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing. Good people are doing a lot these days, but it may be too little, too late.<\/p>\n
In Georgia, Republicans have purged some 102,000 names from the voter polls, months after record election turnout gave Georgia\u2019s electoral votes to Biden AND flipped both of Georgia\u2019s Senate seats to blue. The reason for the purge is obvious – Republicans are determined to regain Georgia, and they know that they can do so only by cheating. Brian Kemp did not win the most recent Georgia gubernatorial election; he stole it by sitting on over 50,000 voter registration applications, at least two-thirds of which were from Blacks.<\/p>\n
The official slogan of the Washington Post is \u201cDemocracy dies in darkness.\u201d Right now, Republicans are beating democracy to death in broad daylight. This is no time for halfway measures, for marshmallow-livered compromises, for trying-to-please-everybody bipartisanship. This is a time for all Democrats, especially those in Congress, to grow spines. This is a time to declare war on the enemies of democracy.<\/p>\n
If you read my post a few weeks ago about how the GOP is essentially dead, I pointed out that Republicans have the goal of destroying democracy and perverting the USA into a one-party state. Those kinds of systems never work out well. From the Soviet Union to Nazi Germany to Red China, one-party systems are invariably oppressive, regardless of whether those who are in charge are Communists or Fascists. The true soul of the \u201cParty of Lincoln\u201d is dead, and what remains is a vile, rotting monstrosity bereft of morality, conscience and scruples.<\/p>\n
When the Republican death spiral began is debatable. Some say it started with Nixon, others claim it began during the Reagan years. The election of Trump and his disastrous regime proved the GOP is dead inside. The January 6 putsch and the continued howling that Trump actually won in 2020 clearly show Republicans don\u2019t give a rat\u2019s derriere about the USA, or its residents, or the ideas and principles on which this nation was founded. They are no longer a true political party, but the fan bois of a depraved, incompetent oaf. Hatred – racism in particular – is their motivation, violence their modus operandi, the destruction of democracy in the United States is their goal. They know what they oppose, but have no idea what they really support. They seek to destroy without offering to rebuild.<\/p>\n
There is still hope, though – pressure from hoi polloi made Senator Manchin flip on HR1. And we can still win as long as we raise hell, get people registered, double-check that we are on the voting rolls, and fight any and all efforts at voter suppression. Fight like pit bulls we must, because the alternative is unthinkable and unacceptable.<\/p>\n
Further reading:<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/opinion\/leonard-pitts-jr-has-our-democracy-hit-an-iceberg\/ar-AALlFzU<\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2021\/06\/23\/the-jim-crow-republicans-arent-just-attacking-voting–they-want-to-rewrite-history\/<\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/campaign\/559511-press-supreme-court-unmasks-brain-dead-party<\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/voices\/republican-party-donald-trump-voter-suppression-b1868426.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Congratulations, Republicans. Your party is now Public Enemy Number One. Your refusal to pass a sweeping voting rights bill proves that you hate democracy. Everybody who voted against this bill did not think for even a split second about the principles on which the United States of America was founded, principles for which millions of […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}