U. S. Senate Republicans have once again voted against the Constitution, the right to vote, and the freedom of the American people.
Trapped in Trump's Big Lie and too cowardly to admit they have chosen the wrong path, Republican senators today blocked passage of the Freedom to Vote Act.
The act is Senate Democrats' latest attempt to address the flood of voter suppression laws rolling out of state legislatures like sewage.
I am of the opinion that the Republican Party should be condemned as a domestic terror organization and its leaders, both in the Congress and the RNC, branded as terrorists for their consistent and unrelenting attack on our constitutional rights.
Senate Republicans are hiding, as they have for as long as I can remember, behind the curtain of states' rights. They claim the states have the power to shape their own electoral laws and that passing a national voting rights law would be a federal intrusion on those rights.
The problem is that the state laws that have recently been passed blatantly violate a number of constitutional rights, violating at the very least Amendments 14, 15, 19, 24, and 26, and should be peremptorily struck down by the courts.
We see this Republican racism every election cycle: attempts to threaten or repress voters, disinformation about voting, false allegations of voter fraud.
After Trump these attempts have become more vicious and virulent.
Major news outlets are beginning to say what many of us bloggers have been saying for a long time. The entire Republican Party is corrupt and has only one agenda item: to get into power or to stay there. Republican intransigence and bigotry are the strongest arguments for term limits that we have.
The administration and congressional Democrats need to be far more aggressive, and to get the party in line.
Their battle cry should be: Stop The Goddamned Republicans From Destroying America!
--- Diogenes, 20 October 2021