H.R. 1, the For the People Act of 2021
GOP lawmakers seek tougher voting rules after record turnout
The question I always wonder is which is more important to citizens...
- Winning by manipulating and suppressing the vote?
- Or winning by offering up the best plan?
Personally I want as many legal voters to cast their votes as possible. Which means making it secure, easy and safe. Seems technology should be able to help with that.
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It has been clear to me that Republicans place a higher priority on winning elections, than in making elections honest and fair. For me, that was vividly demonstrated when the leader of the Republican Party asked Georgia election officials to "recalculate" the vote in order to win an election he clearly lost. It's not just that he did that, it's that the leader remains unrepudiated by the members of his party. He has not been hounded from public life, and is the frontrunner for his party's nomination in 2024.
I do not know why Republicans believe what they do. I don't know why they think they should win elections they lose. I don't understand the Republican view that when policies they disagree with are implemented by the people who do win elections, their freedoms have been violated. I don't know why Republicans say or would want to say that their party belongs to a specific individual. Fond as I am of many Democratic leaders, I have never for a moment thought that the Democratic Party belong to Barack Obama, Joe Biden, or Al Gore, for that matter. But in these dedcayin times, one of our two major parties, the party of Lincoln if not much else, does think this way. It's a party with a leader but without a platform, without a sense of how awful that is.
--Hiram
Agreed. Imagine if Obama had been caught asking a DEM SOS to find votes.
To me it seems to be a sense of entitlement, they seem to think that the USA "is theirs" therefore they should control it?
With that perspective they do not seem to care if their policies make sense or not. "They are above question."
Kind of like when I ask people for sources / proof and they say "I know, therefore it is true".
They do talk about taking America a lot. They seem to believe America has a heartland in which some Americans do not live. They are comfortable with some votes counting more than others.
Lately, I have sort of given up on Republicans. Some seemingly trivial things are subjectively big for me. The election thing really bothered me, how casually they discarded their rhetoric about fairness of elections when one of their own didn't win one. The way Trump was given a blank check by his convention, which seemed to me far less about making him the leader of his party and far more of it's fuhrer.
--Hiram
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