This week's shameful display in the U.S Senate, is one of the worst in many decades and will surely have long term consequences for every coming election. Jointly every Republican Senate member, joined by two very obstructionist and traitors to their party and president Democrats, voted to uphold an old piece of legislation called filibuster, it is a rule that has been used by minority parties to block and delay any legislation i.e. gun control, elections and anti voters games, and racial issues.
The two Democrat Senators, Manchin of West Virginia and Sinema of Arizona have given the green light and a clear signal to the far-right anti Democracy extremism that have besieged American democracy for the past year. The sad fact is, the political and financial forces behind anti voter laws, gerrymandered maps, and attempts at outright election sabotage and denial of loss results, will be emboldened by these senators and their Republican colleagues, they are deliberately taking their disgusting political schemes to new lows for this year's elections and future elections as well.
Meanwhile, in Texas, record numbers of voters are having their registrations rejected under the State's newly introduced ultra strict rules. Even as the State stubbornly refuses to implement secure on line voter registration. Now the State says they're running out of papers registration forms. Florida with its aspiring fascist Governor is asking for special forces or a specialized militia to regulate and observe the entire election process. Missouri Republicans are debating whether to draw a new legislative map that will favor a majority of Republican seats, while trying to fit all of the Democratic seats and their voters into a single ultra-packed district. More than 500 similar piece of legislation are being passed in all Republican controlled States.
Sadly, this could be just the tip of the iceberg, many more new bills are set to take place, all in one direction, restrict voting power to mostly minorities and people of color. Of course not all Americans agree or approve of these restrictions favoring strictly white supremacy and white male Evangelical conservatism. Democracy is facing unprecedented threats, even when all these legislators knowingly see the veer into fascism. They believe its their fascist legal era, their right, and their role to secure it.
This new Republican strategy, under the auspices of the former president, Donald Trump, and his oligarchy and family, are willing to suppress and silence voters in order to secure their winning, and overturn election results that didn't go their way, they've turned repeated Trump's big lies about the 2020 elections into a litmus test, and an entire strategy for the 2022 elections. They have built bigger and more affluent, dangerous on line disinformation networks. they have passed many negative legislations and put many voting stations directly under their control.
Make no mistake, this year elections will decide the fate of democracy in this country as we know it. and we will deliberately and purposely join the Somalias and afghanistans of the world. It was surely devastating to see 52 (50Republicans+2 pseudo Dem.) choose to uphold an archaic outdated rule, one used strictly to impede and obstruct civil and voting rights, over preventing American democracy from backsliding into ugly forms of totalitarianism and authoritarianism.
Every American should resist the attempts to destroy what the country upheld for centuries, and to insure that the citizen's rights, all the citizens, are protected and preserved.
As always, my many thanks to all, stay safe and well.
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