Bogus GOP Anti American Right Wing Nut Voter Suppression Activity Going Full Throttle

[Razoo]

Meanwhile, the Republican attack on voting rights in dozens of states is making us mad. Right-wingers around the country know that their positions are losers at the ballot box, so they’re masquerading behind pious claims of “election integrity” while attempting to block millions of Americans from voting. (This goes way back, btw.) We’ll be gathering further intel about actions you can take, but in the meantime, these bits will get you up to speed:

• The Brennan Center is tracking suppression bills in states across the country.
• Ari Berman in Mother Jones: Republicans Are Trying to Kill What’s Left of the Voting Rights Act
• NYTimes: Georgia Takes Center Stage in Battle Over Voting Rights

And how about the filibuster? Now there’s an infuriating, anti-democratic practice** that’s long past it’s pull date or, as Hightower tweeted this week:

"Filibuster" is a prissy word that bureaucratic, autocratic elites use to rationalize their control over the rest of us. Screw them! Let democracy flower!

In short, the filibuster allows a minority to stifle legislation that would help the workaday American majority and strengthen our democracy. For instance...

This week the House passed the “For the People Act” -- “the boldest pro-democracy reform package… since the Watergate era” -- a bill that, if it does make it into law, would loosen the grip of big money in elections, establish nonpartisan commissions to end partisan gerrymandering, institute automatic voter registration, and a whole bunch of other reforms that are widely popular with the American people. So how’s that looking in the Senate? Mitch McConnell and the GOP hate it, natch, so passage may be up to this guy. Turn

 

[Omniscient]

put term limits on senators

make lobbying illegal

 

[Helix]

pass a version of the new voting rights act. force it through.

 

[Razoo]

put term limits on senators

make lobbying illegal

Eliminate special interest money could effectively limit lobbying ....

Term limits will have to come from we the voters through a self proclaimed mandate to replace all incumbents every other voting cycle. Which should reduce the cost of elected officials.

 

[Razoo]

pass a version of the new voting rights act. force it through.

standing ovation = let's get on with it.