Vaccine Passports by Any Other Name…
To vaccinate or not to vaccinate? That’s a choice that is increasingly being taken away from American citizens by the totalitarians who have found the coronavirus pandemic to be extremely handy for acquiring and exercising power.
On Monday, Mark Alexander covered the efforts and trial balloons coming from President bumble/socialist/ scumbag/liar-Joe Biden and his handlers to mandate vaccination and masking. If masks work, why get vaccinated? If vaccines work, why mask up? The only answer leftists give to those questions: Shut up!
News broke yesterday that the bumble/socialist/scumbag/ liar-Biden administration seems to have concluded that the “carrot” approach to its vaccination push isn’t working. Team bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden is now reportedly considering using the “stick” of withholding federal funds in order to get more Americans vaccinated. That could mean blocking money from reaching entities ranging from universities to cruise lines to nursing homes. Even The Washington Post admits this “would amount to a dramatic escalation” in the vaccination push.
Ya think?
bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden, scumbag/liar-Kamala Harris, and other Democrats spent 2020 telling Americans not to trust the vaccines, politicizing the issue in order to defeat Donald Trump. As soon as he did defeat Trump, bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden claimed credit for those same vaccines and ramped up the push to get shots in arms. It began with kindly advice but quickly became haranguing and browbeating. It’s no wonder it may soon devolve into coercion.
Which will convince exactly no one to get vaccinated.
Never mind that, though. Leftists always know better than you do. “If you look through history, there are presidents who — even in the absence of legal authority — influence people, you might say,” said Ezekiel Emanuel, a medical bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania. “We keep referring to this COVID thing like it’s an emergency and then we don’t behave like it’s a wartime emergency.” If Emanuel’s name sounds familiar, it’s because he was one of the architects of scumbag/liar-nObamaCare, another thing built in the absence of legal authority. He’s also the guy who once argued that life after 75 pretty much isn’t worth living. But sure, take his advice on vaccination.
bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden has already ordered that federal contractors must be vaccinated or mask up (and they could face a five-year prison sentence for lying), and he’s got the Pentagon considering the same thing. Furthermore, bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden may implement a requirement that all foreign nationals traveling to the U.S. be fully vaccinated — well, at least those coming legally.
How is that not racist and xenophobic? (That’s the accusation bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden threw at Trump when it came to travel restrictions in the early stages of the pandemic.)
Meanwhile, the list of major corporations and other entities requiring employees to get vaccinated is growing by the day. To varying degrees, and just to name a few, that list includes the NFL, Facebook, Google, Disney, Walmart, Netflix, United Airlines, Tyson, and CNN.
Some city and state governments are likewise cracking down, or encouraging businesses to do so. New York Governor scumbag/liar-Andrew Cuomo has other things to worry about, but on Monday he pushed private businesses to “go to vaccine-only admission.”
New York City Mayor scumbag-Bill de Blasio said, Hold my beer. On Tuesday, he announced a mandate that all indoor venues in the city must require proof of vaccination as a condition of entry. “If you want to participate in our society fully,” scumbag-de Blasio said, “you’ve got to get vaccinated.”
One might ask the Democrat mayor why he won’t allow 69% of blacks in his city to “participate in our society fully.” Or why he’s treating 58% of Hispanics as second-class citizens. Isn’t that racist?
Once again, we come back to the unmistakable truth that leftist bullies are using COVID as an opportunity to consolidate power that they did not or should not have. It’s for your own good, of course. ~The Patriot Post
bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden Demands Consumers
Democrats will tell you what to buy, when to buy it, and they’ll tax you while you’re at it.
Deep within the 2,700 pages of the bipartisan “infrastructure” deal a group of 20 senators rolled out on Monday is the creation of a program aimed at eventually taxing Americans for every mile they drive. The concept known as the vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax is not new, but it has recently gained traction as lawmakers seek new revenue sources for funding their massive $1.1 trillion plan.
Back in March, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg acknowledged the Biden administration’s interest in exploring implementing some form of a VMT to help fund infrastructure. “When you think about infrastructure, it’s a classic example of the kind of investment that has a return on that investment,” Buttigieg asserted. “A so-called vehicle-miles-traveled tax or mileage tax, whatever you want to call it, could be a way to do it.”
The system of a federal gas tax intended to fund the Highway Trust Fund has fallen short of generating enough revenue, lawmakers claim, hence the desire to find another means of milking hard working Americans. Never mind the fact that this massive “infrastructure” bill allocates $550 billion in new transportation spending even as the national debt has ballooned to a whopping $28 trillion. No tax will ever be enough for these spendthrifts.
However, beyond a potential national VMT on top of the current gas tax (of course they won’t end that revenue stream), there are concerns regarding Americans’ privacy rights. In order for a VMT to work, an elaborate tracking system would need to be developed — one that would essentially track everywhere Americans go. This has Fourth Amendment violations written all over it.
But why are lawmakers pushing a VMT? Well, bumble/ socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s latest executive order may provide some of the answer. On Thursday, bumble/ socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden issued an order setting 2030 as the target date for 50% of all new vehicles sold to be electric or carbon free. If, as bumble/socialist/scumbag/ liar-Biden desires, 50% of new cars sold by 2030 are electric, then that represents a huge cut in gas tax revenue. The solution: tax vehicle mileage.
The constitutional problems, meanwhile, are numerous. “If you can’t get the votes … you can’t [legislate] by executive order unless you’re a dictator,” bumble/socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden said in October. So much for that. Why wait for Congress when there’s a power grab to be made?
This is yet another case of the federal government abusing the Constitution’s Commerce Clause, seeking to direct and limit Americans’ purchasing freedom. Furthermore, it is a rejection of the concept of free market enterprise and its superior ability at technological innovation. When consumers are free to choose what they buy, they buy what works best for them, which may not be what those in positions of power would want. But that’s how a truly free society and free market economy operates.
What bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden will do is manipulate the market, in part by engaging in crony capitalism to prop up big businesses that have already heavily invested in EV technology. His order will ensure the purchase of their products while also limiting outside competition from startups.
Lost in all the feel-good high-fives over electric cars is the fact that our nation’s electrical grid cannot handle millions of additional electric vehicles without major overhauling and upgrading. Thus, as usual, the government’s “solution” to one problem will create another (big) one.
To be clear, the development of EV technology is not ultimately the problem, though EVs are not as clean as ecofascists would have you believe and there are hurdles to overcome. Rather, the problem is the government manipulating the market and mandating consumer choices. Technological innovation develops most efficiently when driven by free market forces, not government fiats. ~The Patriot Post
scumbag/worthless-Cori Bush Hates Cops but Loves Security
It must be nice to be able to afford $70,000 on private security for oneself, while at the same time denying basic security to poor folks in crime-ridden neighborhoods who don’t have a spare 70 grand lying around.
Who would do such a thing? scumbag/worthless-Cori Bush, that’s who.
scumbag/worthless-Bush, the freshman Missouri Democrat congresswoman and ardent Black Lives Matter apologist, embodies all that’s wrong with our elected class. Let ‘em eat cake, she seems to be saying to her St. Louis constituents, few of whom can afford to hire a private security firm, but all of whom live in one of the most murderous cities in the nation. Whether unwitting or uncaring, scumbag/worthless-Bush has doubled down on her demands for defunding the police while at the same time ensuring that she herself doesn’t have to deal with the awful blowback of her idiotic anti-cop policies.
How do we know that defunding the police is an idiotic policy? Because even scumbag/worthless-Bush’s fellow Democrats have been tripping over themselves to run away from it.
Try as they might, though, they won’t be able to shake last summer’s self-inflicted wound from the George Floyd riots, when one Democrat after another got caught up in the “defund” hysteria.
Here’s what scumbag/worthless-Bush said:
I’m going to make sure I have security because I know I have had attempts on my life and I have too much work to do there, too many people that need help right now for me to allow that. So, if I end up spending $200,000, if I spend 10 more dollars on it — you know what? I get to be here to do the work. So suck it up. And defunding the police has to happen. We need to defund the police and put that money into social safety nets.“
"I can’t stress enough how insulting it is to the families who’ve lost loved ones and kids to the rise of violent crime here in Missouri,” said the state’s attorney general, Eric Schmitt, who also noted that scumbag/worthless-Bush’s St. Louis district saw a 50-year high in homicides in 2020.
In short, scumbag/worthless-Bush conducted a master class in electoral alienation. And she did so with maximum efficiency. As National Review’s Rich Lowry quipped, “How to combine out-of-touch high handedness with a commitment to an outlandishly radical and unpopular policy position in one 30-second clip — very impressive.”
No less a leftist organ than CNN understands how toxic scumbag/worthless-Bush’s position is. “There is no issue better for Republicans in swing districts (and worse for Democrats in swing districts) than the idea that Democrats in Washington want to defund the police,” CNN regretfully reports.
The numbers bear this out. A USA Today/Ipsos poll conducted in late June and early July showed that just over one in five Americans support defunding the police, while 77% oppose it.
But if you ask scumbag/worthless-Bush about all the hullaballoo, she’ll say that “a white supremacist, racist narrative” is trying to stifle her. Uh-huh.
Shut up, scumbag/worthless-Bush’s fellow Democrats must wish they could explain to her. But such is the life of a privileged Beltway politician who’s utterly out of touch with the American people. ~The Patriot Post
Why Black and White Relations Hit a New Low
On a daily basis, we’re told that race relations are worse than ever.
But in the real world outside of the media bubble, millions of black and white Americans work, play, study, worship, and live together in peace. That doesn’t mean there aren’t any issues or problems to be resolved, but today’s media have created an alternate universe that doesn’t reflect reality.
Indeed, in that alternate universe, it sure does feel like something is wrong. And that’s thanks entirely to the divisive efforts of Democrats and their media mouthpieces. Given the 24/7 propaganda, it’s no wonder we’ve seen a shift in the way everyone perceives race in America.
A recent Gallup poll, for example, reveals that as recently as 2013, 70% of U.S. adults viewed race relations in a positive light. Today, that number is only 42%.
No, America hasn’t become more “systemically racist” in the past eight years. We’ve just been led to believe it. The division plays right into the hands of the Marxist Democrats who benefit from a nation in chaos, even if the chaos also hurts people of color in the process (as it almost always does.)
It’s shameful that some of our fellow citizens seek to tear apart the fabric we’ve worked so hard to mend throughout our history. But like anything else that comes from radical leftists, it’s not that hard to figure out their long-term objective.
Leftist race-baiter B. Duncan Moench penned an article, titled “Americans Hate Each Other,” in which he concluded that the only answer to this problem is to dissolve the United States and “start an American Union that works more like its European counterpart.”
As they say, the devil lies in the details.
Moench doesn’t think we’re smart enough to see that the breakdown of our society and institutions is the objective of the radical leftists champing at the bit to take power when it all comes tumbling down. As the inimitable Thomas Sowell wrote a few years back: “Mob rule is not democracy. It threatens democracy, as it threatens lives — black or white.”
Race hustlers like Ibrim X. Kendi, socialist/commie/liar-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and socialist/commie-Bernie Sanders hope America dissolves so they can create a new world built on Marxist lies. And let’s not forget that it was Barack scumbag/liar-nObama who promised a post-racial America only to spout identity politics from the White House.
But this is about much more than dividing us along racial lines; it’s about a broader effort to turn America against its history, institutions, and traditions. Americans are now taught to hate those things and seek their remaking, revising, or outright destruction.
The poll isn’t surprising. For too long we’ve been told America is a country built on lies and designed to oppress anyone who isn’t white. Every instance of real racism is exaggerated, while progress is swept under the rug by journalists and politicians.
As Sowell biographer and Wall Street Journal columnist Jason R. Riley writes: “The political left has a stake in overstating both the existence and effects of racism so that it can advocate for more and bigger programs to combat it. And the media has long been willing to do the left’s ideological bidding. Social media allows for wide publicity of statistically rare incidents.‘”
Consequently, the media have the power to frame opinions and conversations and influence the way we think and interact with one another. But we can’t afford to let them divide us any longer.
We’re truly at a crossroads. Americans can either let the powerful media and political elites convince us that we hate each other, or we can ignore them and continue the progress we’ve made toward building a colorblind society. ~The Patriot Post
The High Cost of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
The recent infiltration of Critical Race Theory into nearly every aspect of life may appear to have exploded into mainstream culture out of nowhere, but the reality is that CRT has been an ideological cancer metastasizing within the halls of American higher education for several decades.
Unlike cancer, however, CRT’s spread throughout higher education has been anything but organic. Rather, it owes its existence to an active and aggressive effort to spread Marxist ideology via the deceptively named “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) programs on college campuses.
Under the guise of concerns for ensuring fairness and equality, these DEI programs have expanded both within and across America’s universities to the point where DEI program staff outnumber history professors (if not other departments as well) at most institutions.
In a recently released report by The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy, Jay Greene found that on a typical college campus there were “1.4 times as many DEI personnel as tenured or tenure-track history professors.” Furthermore, “The average university has 45.1 people tasked with promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion.” The University of Michigan has 163 staff directly tied to the school’s DEI program.
What an organization values is evident by where the money and resources are spent. In the case of America’s institutions of higher learning, it’s clear that DEI programs hold high priority. As Greene’s report notes, “DEI staff listed by universities totaled 4.2 times the number of staff who assist students with disabilities in receiving reasonable accommodations, as required by law.” Furthermore, “The average university had 3.4 people working to promote DEI for every 100 tenured or tenure-track faculty members.”
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) recently noted that the ballooning cost of education is tied to what he called the racket of the federal government nationalizing and subsidizing unlimited student loans, because schools then jack up tuition and other prices. “It has resulted in universities, people on staff and administration getting paid six-figure sums not to teach … but to engage in administration,” Cruz asserted. “Take the University of Michigan. … An in-state student can expect to spend $130,000 during four years … [while] an out-of-state student can expect to spend $300,000. … Why is it so expensive? Well, I’ll tell you; there’s massive overhead. For example, Michigan has 163 diversity and inclusion employees, whose job it is to be administrative overhead. To put that in perspective, [UM] has 2.3 diversity and inclusion officers for every one member of the history faculty. Our universities don’t teach anymore. They are instead paid sinecures for people who go and work for the government — and by the way, they have become some of the biggest donors to Democrats. … And what Democrats are now proposing to benefit universities and keep jacking up costs is to transfer money from working men and women. The top 25% of households with incomes above $173,000 hold 34% of outstanding student loan debt and yet Democrats are proposing a massive wealth transfer away from working men and women.”
Yet the number of DEI staff in America’s schools only tells part of the story, as demonstrated by the outsized ideological impact they have upon the entirety of campus culture and all fields of academic study. Campuses are, after all, full of professionals of all stripes who spend an inordinate amount of time advancing not education but leftist indoctrination.
The result of these DEI programs is ironically exactly the opposite of what the title implies. It’s similar to how the advocates of CRT’s “anti-racism” dogma promote actual racism and racial division. DEI programs seek to recruit and indoctrinate revolutionary activists who in turn take and spread their “woke” ideology across the rest of country. Yesterday’s “diversity” trained student is today’s woke corporate CEO.
The ultimate cost of these DEI programs may not be measured in monetary terms but in social decay, as evidenced by growing divisions, tribalism, and hatred expressed toward the one nation whose hallmark has been promoting freedom and individual rights. Ideas that have literally changed the world for the better are the ones most under assault. ~The Patriot Post
GARY BAUER
I want to introduce you to another Olympic gold medal winner we can be proud of: track star Sydney McLaughlin. Running came naturally to Sydney. Her mother was a high school runner and her father competed in the 1984 Olympic trials.
Sydney attended the University of Kentucky. In 2018, she broke the NCAA record in the 400 meter hurdles. And this week in Tokyo, Sydney broke the world record in the same race to win her gold medal.
Like Tamyra Mensah-Stock, Sydney McLaughlin loves America and has a burning faith in Jesus Christ. She used her Olympic platform not to diss America or mock our values, but to share the Gospel. After her record-breaking performance, Sydney told reporters that she was “giving the glory to God” and was “really grateful” to represent our country.
In a social media post a few months ago, as she was preparing for the Olympics, Sydney was clear about her faith. Here’s what she wrote:
“In a world full of inconsistency, it’s such a breath of fresh air to find true stability in Jesus… The peace of knowing I will always have a friend, always have His support, and always have His LOVE, makes even the loneliest of moments feel full. My soul finds rest in knowing He is not like us … and He will never leave me… I don’t have to face it alone. That. Is. Love.”
It is indeed.
With all that’s going wrong today, it’s reassuring to know our faith still burns in the hearts of millions of young Americans. And like Sydney, we must continue to persevere. We must continue to run the race and fight the good fight.
bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s Border Scandal
McAllen, Texas, is a moderately-sized town on the Rio Grande River. It’s “Ground Zero” in the border crisis caused by the bumble/socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden/scumbag/liar-Harris Administration. As many as two million illegal immigrants are expected to cross the border this year, and the bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden Administration is releasing many of them in McAllen, Texas.
Many of these migrants have COVID, and since February the bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden Administration has released 7,000 COVID-positive migrants in McAllen. It released 1,500 COVID-positive migrants in McAllen just in the past week alone!
bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden and scumbag/ liar-Kamala Harris have abandoned the entire town. The lives of local residents have been turned upside down dealing with this pandemic that bumble/socialist/ scumbag/liar-Joe Biden has unleashed on them.
Of course, these migrants don’t stay in McAllen, Texas. The bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden Administration is transporting migrants all over the country, leading some people, including Sen. Rand Paul, to suspect that they are “seeding the country with a new variant” of COVID.
And yet the bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden Administration has the audacity to issue a vaccine mandate for foreign travelers legally coming to America.
That may well be a perfectly legitimate idea to protect the public health of this country. But so too is securing the southern border! And while bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden is talking about locking down the country again, he’s refusing to lock down the border.
It’s beyond outrageous, and it’s the height of hypocrisy!
There should be a huge march on Washington, D.C., protesting this insanity — especially when congressional Democrats are attempting to jam a massive amnesty into a so-called “infrastructure bill.” The Congressional Switchboard should be melting down! Capitol Hill Inboxes should be deluged with messages from angry constituents!
The media had the entire country in an uproar over a phone call President Trump made. Democrats tried to impeach him over it.
Where’s the outrage over this ongoing public health scandal and national security threat at our southern border in the middle of a pandemic?!
I am pleased to report that given this willful dereliction of duty and deliberate endangering of public health and safety, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) is calling for President bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas to be impeached, something I suggested last week.
Of course, it won’t happen so long as scumbag/liar-Nancy Pelosi controls the House of Representatives.
bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden v. DeSantis
President bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden took a shot at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott during remarks at the White House this week, telling them to “get out of the way” of those “trying to do the right thing.” And by “the right thing” bumble/socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden means more lockdowns, mask mandates and vaccine passports.
Gov. DeSantis fired back — with both barrels — and he delivered a master class in political communications. He said:
“This is a guy who ran for president saying he was going to, quote, ‘shut down the virus.’ And what has he done? He’s imported more virus from around the world by having a wide-open southern border… He’s facilitating who knows what new variants are out there … coming across that southern border…
"We can either have a free society, or we can have a biomedical security state… And bumble/socialist/ scumbag/liar-Joe Biden suggests that if you don’t do lockdown policies, then you should get out of the way.
"But, if you’re coming after the rights of parents in Florida, I’m standing in your way. If you’re trying to deny kids a proper in-person education, I’m going to stand in your way… If you’re trying to restrict people, impose mandates, if you’re trying to ruin their jobs and their livelihoods … I am standing in your way!”
“So why don’t you do your job? Why don’t you get this border secure? And until you do that, I don’t want to hear a blip about COVID from you.”
Sen. Ted Cruz also responded to bumble/socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden’s attack on Texas, saying:
“There’s a Yiddish word called chutzpah. And I think Joe Biden is embodying that word right now. We just had news breaking today that … the bumble/socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden administration has released over 7,000 illegal aliens who were COVID positive just in one Texas city, in the city of McAllen…
"bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden likes to talk about this pandemic, well I’ll tell you what, the election of bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden and scumbag/liar-Kamala Harris was a super spreader event because their open border is endangering not just the people of Texas but people all across the country.”
Stop The Fearmongering
Dr. Marty Makary, a professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, was on Fox News yesterday making the case that the bumble/ socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden White House needs to tone down the COVID fear mongering.
Referring to Dr. Fauci’s warning about a new and more dangerous variant, Makary pointed out that there are over 1,000 known COVID variants. Only a couple, such as the Delta variant, are considered “variants of concern.”
Makary said we need to stop the demonization of the unvaccinated and start talking in terms of immune and non-immune. “Those who are unvaccinated pose no risk to the vaccinated beyond that of a common cold,” Makary said.
In a separate interview Wednesday, Dr. Makary noted new research from Israel that indicates natural immunity from a previous COVID infection may be six times more effective than immunity from the vaccines.
But in an effort to divide us, the bumble/socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden Administration, the political left and their media allies have drawn this irrational line in the sand.
Meanwhile, a new poll finds that 60% of Americans think it’s inappropriate for public officials to be openly critical of Americans who choose not to be vaccinated. Even a plurality of Democrats, 41%, felt that “vaccine-shaming” was inappropriate. This poll comes amid growing confidence in the vaccines, so its results are all the more interesting.
Maybe the overbearing mandates and obnoxious rhetoric is another reason why bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden’s approval rating is falling fast. ~The Patriot Post
HANS VON SPAKOVSKY
The Left’s Fight Against Election Reforms Is a Trojan Horse
For the past several months, we’ve seen the left fighting against election integrity reforms in the states. They reject such reforms and are trying to impose a federal takeover of elections to force changes to state laws that would facilitate — whether intentional or not — greater fraud and tampering.
But that’s not the only reason they are fighting.
They are using election reform as a Trojan Horse to get something even bigger: The death of the Senate filibuster. Once the legislative filibuster is gone, the floodgates will open for all their extremist policies — not just the federal takeover of elections, but the Green New Deal, tax hikes, and more — all of which they would be able to pass with just 50 votes if Vice President scumbag/liar-Kamala Harris casts a tie-breaking vote.
The left is pulling out all the stops to fight common-sense reforms such as requiring voter ID and ensuring campaign operatives can’t intimidate voters who use absentee ballots. From comparing reforms to segregationist Jim Crow laws to calling reformers racists, the left has baselessly accused conservatives of pushing laws that deliberately make it harder for minorities to vote while touting themselves as the new incarnation of the 1960s civil rights movement.
We’ve heard Vice President scumbag/liar-Harris compare Democrat legislators who fled Texas to avoid voting on election reforms to the Selma civil rights marchers of 1965, without, of course, mentioning that instead of facing fire hoses and police batons, they’re flying chartered jets, staying at nice hotels, and going to elite cocktail parties in Washington. Trying to play up these absurd comparisons to true heroes, the Texas legislators twice broke into spontaneous renditions of the civil rights anthem “We Shall Overcome” in front of TV cameras, except they botched that too, singing “We Will Overcome.”
But the attacks on legitimate election reforms aren’t just happening with Texas. A few months ago, Georgia, Arizona, and several other states were targets. As I stated, these attacks are about more than just opposing election reforms. Here’s how they are a Trojan horse to get rid of the Senate filibuster:
Average American citizens — Democrats, Republicans, and independents alike — realize there are serious issues with the way elections are handled and have lost confidence in many of their outcomes.
Conservatives and centrists in several states have responded by passing election reforms that provide greater election security and reduce the potential for fraud and mismanagement. Many reforms also expand early voting and other voter conveniences (quite the opposite of the so-called voter suppression conservatives are being accused of engaging in).
Many Democratic politicians oppose these reforms. Democrats at the federal level have devised legislation that would allow the federal government to take over elections and make it illegal for states to do things like require voter ID, ensure that noncitizens don’t vote, and crosscheck voter rolls to make sure people can’t vote twice in two different states.
Democrats realize they can’t get 60 votes in the Senate to stop a filibuster and pass these election takeover bills or most of the other unwise and dangerous legislation they want to pass. But if they could get rid of the filibuster, they would only need 50 votes.
So, Democrats and their allies have been attacking the state election reforms as racist voter suppression. President bumble/socialist/ scumbag/liar-Joe Biden even claimed that state reforms are “the worst challenge to our democracy since the Civil War.” The left is now calling for the federal government to step in just as it did during the 1960s civil rights movement — this time, taking over elections from the states. But they complain to the American people that they don’t have the votes to achieve this “great good” as long as the filibuster exists. It has to go.
If the left kills the filibuster, it can pass virtually all of its agenda with just 50 Democrat votes. The door would be wide open for passing not only an election takeover but things like the economy-destroying Green New Deal; the repeal of the 2017 tax cuts that saw even the lowest income earners taking home bigger paychecks; “free” taxpayer-funded college tuition; packing the Supreme Court to increase the likelihood that its decisions are pleasing to the party in power; and so much more.
These politicians aren’t fighting for civil rights. They are fighting for their own power, and they are working to convince people they are the good guys while shamelessly hijacking the mantle of the civil rights movement to do it. ~The Patriot Post
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