End of Discussion
The saddest thing about lawmakers discussing, debating, and arguing about voters' rights is the fact that those rights are being discussed, debated, or argued at all.
In a democracy, such rights are not open to discussion - because without them, democracy simply does not exist. The right of a self-governing people to choose those who will shape their collective destiny is not a debatable point - it is the only point.
It is not subject to compromise, nor alteration - it is not something to be argued as though there are differing interpretations that deserve equal consideration. It is not a matter to be weighed and measured by warring political factions, hopeful of a 'win' on either side.
The right of every citizen to vote and have their vote counted is sacrosanct, and anyone who seeks to diminish that right is seeking to diminish everything we as a nation stand for. It is to say that every principle Americans have ever fought and died for is suddenly devoid of meaning, and that the foundation we have built our nation upon is now without merit.
Any discussion, debate, or argument about who has the right to vote, and under what circumstances they should be allowed to do so, is the stuff that dictatorships are made of - and clearly have no place in a nation that has traditionally rejected such forms of government as being backward, ignorant, and ultimately doomed to failure.
What has become glaringly obvious is that the Republicans are focused on only one goal: destroying the right of any citizen who opposes them to speak at the ballot box and be heard.
What is also obvious is the fact that after four years of being the party of
bigotry, racism, fear-mongering, financial greed, widespread corruption, and spineless kowtowing to an mindless idiot, the Republicans have rendered themselves unelectable by any other means.
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because of the insurrection and their "Nothing to see here" attitude towards it.
Huge Blue Wave coming.
Apparently some white people are wearing it for free.
