" Most of the security measures in this bill are aimed at the vote harvesters, not at the voters,” Hughes said. He cited Gregg County, in his district, where a county commissioner has been charged with 23 felonies in connection to the 2018 Democratic primary. "
So completely and totally about voter suppression?
Well since the only reason Georgia rates a second place in existing voter suppression is because it can always look admiringly at Texas as the King of Voter Suppression.
Most all of this new Legislation is about the Right not liking the results of the 2020 election. They liked no excuse absentee balloting and mail in voting before 2020. Now they don't. What changed. I assume WE ALL HAVE EYES. We know what changed. Heck many State level Repukes are not even making any bones about it. There mantra is "better voters instead of more voters". Well who decides who makes the cut as a better voter and by what standard. We know who they want to decide and we know the standard they want to apply.
Now Georgia....Good Ole' Boy GEORGIA has a Jewish kid and a Black Minister for Senators. THAT IS WHAT CHANGED. The DEMs Nationally got behind their candidate for President and got out the vote for him. THAT IS WHAT CHANGED. So now those Good Ole' Boys who truth be told are not restricted to the Deep South and never were are running scared, more scared than ever about their own misconceptions about what will happen to this country if Whites are not running things and are no longer a Majority but just one of the crowd that makes up a majority Minority populace. THAT in fact is what drives the GOP and so-called Conservatism since Bill Buckley made White Supremacy and in effect Racism part of Conservative Political Philosophy in the mid-20th Century. There it has been ever since. It is what compelled the Blue Dogs to jump ship from the DEM Party to the GOP which was suddenly much more appealing to them. Heck, the GOP was at that point openly supporting White Supremacy. The KKK was still wearing its bed sheets! George Wallace's "Segregation now and Segregation forever" mantra just was not going to fly for very long in what was becoming of the DEM Party and they knew it. So they jumped ship.
White Supremacy is the only enduring aspect of the GOP and so-called Contemporary Conservatism:
- States Rights, Now a mere convenience to be abandoned at a moments notice and readopted as needed. What the "Conservative Crowd" admires now is power, total power up to and including sitting a President who would really be a Monarch at the top of the totem pole.....OBVIOUSLY. One only need look at the progression from Newt Gingrich to Mitch McConnell to Donnie Rotten to see that. Right now, they are going through a renaissance of States Rights as they try to hobble voting rights state by state
- Budget and Deficit discipline, PLEASE.....GONE.....another convenience to be abandoned at a moments notice and readopted as needed
- National Security, sort of a joke since Jan 6th. Sort of hard to make a National Security argument while fomenting, and inciting INSURRECTION
- Cutting taxes, Can't even give them that one any longer as they are only willing to cut taxes based on that tired old Reagan Horse, trickle down, aptly named since any benefit outside of the richest Americans did only just TRICKLE DOWN
- Individual liberties, If you are a Minority or a woman trying to have control of her own body, forget individual liberties. You have the right to live as long as it does not impede every Tom Dick and Larry's right to own a gun. We have more guns than people in this country, an utter disgrace and embarrassment.
So that leaves all of one thing that has endured of the Contemporary Conservatism of the mid-20th Century, White Supremacy and Racial bias. None of us like to admit it because of what it says about all of us whether on the Political Right, Middle or Left. None of us want to really admit the bedrock principle of one of the two major political parties in this country is White Supremacy and Racial Bias on a grand scale.
