Need a plan to save our right to vote this fall.
Wisconsin should be a wake up call to us all. The SCOTUS intervened and as a result there were 5 polling places in a Democratic stronghold that usually has 100.People stood outdoors, exposing themselves to COVID for hours in order to exercise their rights. And Trump says he likes it that way, because the suppressed Democratic/urban voter turn out gives his party a chance to win this fall.
Trump's outlaw wannabe supporters would like nothing better than to see him close urban polling places the way they were closed in Wisconsin, limit absentee and mail voting and make voter turn out low, low, low this fall. Since the MAGATs love Trump because he is a criminal who gets away with it and because they see him as the Godfather of white privilege (stealing the labor of everyone else to line white folks' pockets the way the Yakuza and Mafia steal other folks' labor), they will not be swayed by talk of the law or fairness. They want things to be criminal. And the Supreme Court of the United States has one mandate---suppress the vote.
So, Democrats, time to play hardball. No spending bill gets out of Congress unless it includes provisions to enable voting this fall. If the Red States suffer from lack of stimulus money, they will suddenly put immediate self interest before dreams of pie in the sky by and by return to the day of Jim Crow when every white man was king even if all he did all day was sit on his ass.
And House, you need to launch inquiries (and lawsuits if necessary) to thwart Trump's attempts to line his own pockets with the stimulus money and "reward" his faithful Red State MAGATS with pork that they do not need. Because in addition to grifting, he also plans to make it clear to his loyal base that if they support him for another term as Godfather, he will make them rich. A lie, of course, but these poor fools will believe anything.
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